Here<\/em><\/a> to learn more about Mary’s beauty routine.<\/p>\nBy late, 1941, Mary\u2019s cosmetic line began to lose popularity.\u00a0 Drug stores began advertising close-out sales and marking Mary\u2019s cosmetic line by 1\/2 price.<\/p>\n
Rather than be the head of her own cosmetic line, she continued to endorse others trying to enter the beauty product world.\u00a0 In 1941, for example, Mary was cited to be working with the laboratories of the Institute Devi Thomae in Ohio led by Dr. George Sperti and William A. Albers. \u00a0Mary Pickford said the scientist had discovered by accident, while looking for something else, a substance which causes the human cells to \u201cbreathe\u201d oxygen.\u00a0Rub it on your face and it freshens your skin.\u00a0 Rub it on your scalp and it revives hair.\u00a0 Rub it on your gums and it strengthens your teeth.\u00a0 \u201cI used to be in the cosmetic business,\u201d she continued.\u00a0 \u201cLater I got out of it.\u201d\u00a0 I do not know whether you can call this new substance a cosmetic.\u00a0It\u2019s a by-product of yeast.\u00a0 But I know it works.\u00a0 I know the man who discovered it is a great scientist and I know that I will be doing a public good when I finance it for general retail sale.\u201d\u00a0 She added that the new cream\u2014which isn\u2019t a cream exactly\u2014will go on sale in the next few weeks under her trademark.\u00a0 Revenue from the product would go back to the institute for cancer research.\u00a0 Mary\u2019s final words on the product, \u201cIt is no cure-all.\u00a0It won\u2019t make old people young or ugly people beautiful.\u00a0 But it will help them to retain healthy skin, hair and teeth.\u201d\u00a0 John A. Binford (Mary\u2019s brother-in-law) was to be secretary of this new cosmetic company, a company that never did get launched.<\/p>\n
Examples from the Mary Pickford Cosmetics, Inc. Booklet<\/p>\n
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Resources:<\/h6>\nMary Pickford Cosmetics, Inc. 1938 Booklet<\/h6>\nThe San Francisco Examiner; October 25, 1937<\/h6>\nThe Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio); December 3, 1941<\/h6>\nThe Sydney Morning Herald; February 1, 1938<\/h6>\nRadio Daily, Jan-Mar 1938<\/h6>\nBroadcasting, April 1, 1939<\/h6>\nSanta Maria Times, October 23, 1941<\/h6>\nDetroit Free Press, February 26, 1939<\/h6>\n<\/h6>\n
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\u201cFrom the moment I first faced footlights, as a little girl of five, and later, before the motion picture camera, I have had to use cosmetics. Naturally the discovery of pleasing, effective and beneficial beauty aids became a very practical necessity. Eventually,<\/p>\n
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