Object Details
- Nestle-LeMur Company
- Description
- The Nestle-Lemur Company, a cosmetics manufacturer, was started in 1928 in New York City when the Nestle and LeMur companies merged. The Nestle line referred to Charles Nestle (born Karl Nessler), inventor of the permanent wave machine, who opened a chain of hair salons in the early 1920s. The company made a variety of hair care products including permanent waves, color-rinses, and in 1944 they advertised Nestle’s Baby Hair Treatment in the newspaper shopper’s column, "Buy-Lines" by Nancy Sasser. The company also had lines of cosmetic products, pharmaceuticals, and household preparations.
- Mother’s Darling Shampoo was produced in the mid 1950s. The soap-free shampoo was specially formulated not to irritate babies’ eyes or skin and for use in both hard and soft water. Johnson and Johnson launched their first baby shampoo at about the same time.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The Fournet Drugstore Collection
- ca 1955
- ID Number
- 1985.0475.195
- catalog number
- 1985.0475.195
- accession number
- 1985.0475
- Object Name
- shampoo, baby
- hair care product
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- metal (container material)
- paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 6.985 cm x 2.8575 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- associated place
- United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Health
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Care and Enhancement
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Babies
- Hair Care Products
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Hair Care Products
- Record ID
- nmah_1415322
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-8f05-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
