NOXZEMA classic cream
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My dad would use nothing else but the bottle was newer. This goes back aways. I personally loved the canned foam but not the jar. Wish they'd bring it back. The small writing says, "Compounded in a secret base". Maybe Area 51?
Love that shade of blue. Thanks for sharing it with us Ron.
Haha would never have caught the “compounded in a secret base” sentence. Thanks for pointing that out.
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I remember reading decades ago the base was made with swine gelatin , also true for the old blue jar skin cream. That old skin cream was LOADED with camphor, eucalyptus and menthol, I really wish we could buy the original formula product today , as well as the original Italian Noxzema cream in the tube .
I read somewhere someone said 50+ years ago they worked at a plant in NJ where they made this stuff and how they loaded up several 100s of jars on a truck at 4am and made runs to some place or another. Must have dispensed like ice cream at the Tastee Freeze.
Love it, malocchio! Thank you for posting!
I asked the folks at Catie's Bubbles if their High Menthol was anything like Noxzema. Of course, no one there was old enough to remember it.
you can still find a few remaining jars of the 'brushless"...
@malocchio great post. Thank you.
First reaction was that this was a nicely preserved little jar until I read the label that shows it contained 4 pounds of shaving cream! How big is the jar? It was really only for the Barber Trade, per the label, or for the average B&B shaver.
First reaction was that this was a nicely preserved little jar until I read the label that shows it contained 4 pounds of shaving cream! How big is the jar? It was really only for the Barber Trade, per the label, or for the average B&B shaver.
Thanks for the ride down memory lane @malocchio ! When I was a kid me and my siblings spent summers on my grandparents farm. I was years away from shaving but once in a blue moon my grandfather would take me to the only barber shop they had in their small farming town of about 500 souls. It was always early on a Saturday morning and he would get a shave and a hair cut for about 3 bucks (I just got a haircut). Among the various shaving gear on a shelf above the mirror was a good sized jar of Noxema shaving cream that looked very much like the one in your picture. I had forgotten all about it until I saw your post. Man does that bring back memories!
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Strictly for the barbershop, however you could go to a barber supply and buy one with no problem.This jar contained the truly legendary Noxzema formula, they really need to bring it back. Not sure why they used " synthetic " camphor, since it was relatively cheap in those days .@malocchio great post. Thank you.
First reaction was that this was a nicely preserved little jar until I read the label that shows it contained 4 pounds of shaving cream! How big is the jar? It was really only for the Barber Trade, per the label, or for the average B&B shaver.
There was a time 'synthetic' probably had the connotation of 'better'. During the space race era science was king.
It's the shame both the cream and foam were discontinued. I got my dad to try the foam once, but he went right back to the jar cream. That was well over 50 years ago or maybe right at 50.
