Crazy Foam - the Toy that Cleans - Dog
Object Details
- Aerosol Corporation of America
- Description
- In 1965, the Aerosol Corporation of America, a division of Shulton, Inc. since 1961, launched the “Crazy Foam” line of aerosol children’s bath soaps. The soap was dispensed in shaving cream style aerosol cans with specially designed plastic caps depicting cartoon-like heads of animals and other figures. With a push of the button soap would foam out of the beak of a duck or a parrot, or from the mouth of a clown or skeleton, or many other “crazy” creatures. The mid-1960s designs were replaced in the 1970s with a line of licensed comic book characters and many other iterations followed. The museum’s collection includes 14 of the original 1960s designs as well as engineering drawings for many of the Crazy Foam heads.
- As promised on the can, “Crazy Foam is Crazy! It’s a wonderful foamy soap that bounces, molds, decorates, floats . . . and “Cleans like Crazy” while you play!”
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Cyanamid Company
- 1965
- ID Number
- 1993.0024.09
- catalog number
- 1993.0024.09
- accession number
- 1993.0024
- Object Name
- personal hygiene product
- soap, novelty
- Other Terms
- Soap, Aerosol Can of; Personal Hygiene; Novelity; Liquid, Aerosol
- Physical Description
- soap (product material)
- orange (overall color)
- pink (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 23.8125 cm x 6.6675 cm x 8.89 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Wellesley, Wellesley Hills
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Bathing
- Beauty and Health
- Exhibition
- SC Johnson Center
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Soap
- Record ID
- nmah_1122588
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-a101-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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