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August 6, 2012 03:28 pm PDT
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Birth of the deodorant industry
In Smithsonian, Sarah Everts traces the deodorant business to Edna Murphey, a high school student from Cincinnati who around 1910 took an antiperspirant her surgeon father invented, meant for his sweaty hands in the operating room, and dabbed it in her armpits. Murphey dubbed the product Odorono and took it to market, but sales were [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Qtwh_deMImI/birth-of-the-deodorant-industr.html
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