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minus-squarejustOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up78arrow-down1·12 days agoYes, Lysol was a feminine hygene product originally. And killed multiple women from septic shock down there. It was pulled and reintroduced as a an all purpose cleaner.
minus-squarehypnicjerk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·12 days agowhat mystifies me is why they never rebranded. didn’t want to waste those advertising dollars they already spent?
minus-squarejustOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·12 days agoLysol: so effective at deals with messes it killed your Mrs?
minus-squareUnna@suppo.filinkfedilinkarrow-up18·12 days agoWikipedia has few paragraphs about this. Advertisements did note that Lysol was safe to use including on “delicate female tissues”.[8] By 1911, 193 Lysol poisonings were recorded along with five deaths from “uterine irrigation”.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysol
minus-squarejustOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·12 days agoIn my case it was a cbc radio documentary about the history of some common products and “feminine hygiene” that stuck with me. https://history-hub.libapps.uncw.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-birth/feminine--hygiene--and-implied
Yes, Lysol was a feminine hygene product originally.
And killed multiple women from septic shock down there.
It was pulled and reintroduced as a an all purpose cleaner.
WHAT
what mystifies me is why they never rebranded. didn’t want to waste those advertising dollars they already spent?
Lysol: so effective at deals with messes it killed your Mrs?
All purpose, except for one.
Source?
Wikipedia has few paragraphs about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysol
Uterine?? 💀
In my case it was a cbc radio documentary about the history of some common products and “feminine hygiene” that stuck with me.
https://history-hub.libapps.uncw.edu/exhibits/show/controlling-birth/feminine--hygiene--and-implied
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