Gettin' Our Hands Dirty with Soap

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Oh the olden days! How horrible you were to the ladies.

HOWEVER, I live for the woodcut inspired illustrations that someone drew all over your advertisements. It's basically a work of art.

Here's another gem:

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Old soap ads are notorious for being extremely racist and sexist, stay tuned for a feature on the racism that was absolutely rampant in old soap print ads. I think I wrote a 12-page paper about it in University.

Palmolive is obviously still around today, but their ads are less than inspiring.

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BORING!!! This almost makes me miss the sexist ones. At least with those I could get outraged about something...