The Old Catablog » Cosmetics http://www.oldcatablog.com Items From Yesteryear Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:48:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Dr. Rose’s Arsenic Wafers http://www.oldcatablog.com/2007/07/12/dr-roses-arsenic-wafers/ http://www.oldcatablog.com/2007/07/12/dr-roses-arsenic-wafers/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:57:26 +0000 ToastR http://www.oldcatablog.com/2007/07/12/dr-roses-arsenic-wafers/ From the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue, 1897:

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Dr. Rose’s French Arsenic Complexion Wafers
OUR SPECIAL PRICE
Per box, 40c; per dozen, $4.25. OUR SPECIAL PRICE
For larger box, 79c; per dozen, $8.00
RETAILS GENERALLY FOR MORE THAN DOUBLE THE PRICE.

PERFECTLY HARMLESS when used in accordance with our directions, it possesses the “wizard’s touch” in producing, preserving and enhancing beauty of form and person in male and female by surely developing a transparency and pellucid clearness of complexion, shapely contour of form, brilliant eyes, soft and smooth skin, where by nature the reverse exists. (more…)

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