Fairy Soap

Product Description

Nathalie Bell Brown, granddaughter of the founder of the company, which first produced FAIRY SOAP and GOLD DUST soap granules, provided us with the following history:

My grandfather, Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbanks, was born in Sodus, New York in 1829 and came west to Chicago by canal boat and train after the Civil War. He brought cottonseed oil and was involved...in the manufacture of soaps, among which were Fair Soap (pure, white, floating), Sunny Monday (washday soap) and Gold Dust (soap granules). Fairy Soap was named, of course, from the first four letters of his last name. The trademark of the little fairy was modeled for by a young girl...The Fairy idea was very effective advertising and many people remember their mothers insisting on Fairy Soap being used for their Saturday night baths! I even ran across a reference to Fairy Soap in Helen Hayes' biography! The Gold Dust Twins were drawn by E.W. Kemble, a staff artist for the Chicago Daily Graphic. The Fairbank Company compiled his drawings and published them as a coloring booklet to go with the soap in 1904. The Twins were on the package for 75 years.

7" X 10"