So much for a weekly blog. Hah! Admirable attempt I must say, but yet again, a proven, bitter failure in terms of me being able to maintain something as a consistent distraction. I honest to goodness have the best of intentions, but that annoyance of all annoyances called 'life,' tends to intervene at the most inconvenient and intrusive times. Alas.... However, as they say, once more into the breach!

Jumping back in, here's a little advertisement for Pears' Soap from 1896.  Lovely illustration isn't?


 
I knew nothing about Pears soap previously, but upon researching it, discovered that the English soap has been around since 1789, and is still being manufactured! Granted, the soap's formula was altered in 1971, but the original composition of the soap certainly had a good run of it!













It was also the product that the already famous (or infamous, as her affairs with royalty, and her acting career had already placed her in the public eye, much like a Kardashian of today) Miss Lilly Lantry endorsed during the Victorian era, and she then became the first woman to earn income by advertising a product. And truthfully, if you think about, she was one of the first celebrity endorsements. 

 Interestingly enough, she claimed she was given the nickname of 'Lillie' because of her lilly-white complexion, so who better to sell a soap product they allegedly use, than a pale, ethereal beauty, with long neck, sharp lips, and slate blue eyes to suck female consumers in who wanted to be like her? Things haven't changed much in 150 years have they?