Shocking 1950's Commercial!

[NehemiahDC]

It's like a Fallout commercial.

[BrandonDeanRobinson]

"Just radioactive enough" ummmmmmmmm..... What? ._. Lmao

[qualqui]

LOL,...we tainted the dirt on the models face very slightly so the geiger counter would register the radioactivity,....i just hope the model didn't develop some cancer or other ailment due to this test!!

[just2pissyouoff]

sail-on cold cream

[jakeinglis3]

just radioactive enough, lol



[DIABLOtheLEGEND]

the funny think is a geiger counter would get a reading with nothing there, just from the natural background radiation. the more you know fear mongering sheep. the more you know....

[DIABLOtheLEGEND]

@DIABLOtheLEGEND actually come to think of it they would probably still use a test like this today, the only difference is they wouldn't tell anyone outside the test for fear of retards freaking out. *COUGH COUGH COUGH*

[AreDiamondsPretty]

Women were so beautiful back then

[Darthon62]

Can you say skin cancer

[pinheadface9000]

Well, that seems like a perfectly reasonable test to WHAT

[katranaable]

u know that uve removed dirt :D

[Blade10201]

@katranaable you know you can't spell

[tbfields2003]

Wonder how many of those models died from "just radioactive enough"

[Tony95Gonz]

Just radioactive enough

[ComandaJoeLM]

Wow, this cream is better the cream A, B or C...

[seeitoldya13]

@xElGringoLoco Hey moron it is not a ginger counter think a little before you open your mouth.

[whisfoxvictor]

What the hell is a ginger counter?! Is that what the Scottish use at census time?

[missglamish]

@whisfoxvictor it's a geiger counter, they still use them today, to check for dangourous chemicals/radioactivity.

[HotChiliHead]

I think the radioactive model went on to star in "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman."

[DeadWolfeee]

What?

[xElGringoLoco]

Morons... Radiation in small amounts like that only cause small mutation such as exceeded grown or cell production it not harmful in any way so think before you open your mouths. For example walk down the streets of Aberdeen in Scotland with a ginger counter and it will beep why? Because buildings in Aberdeen are made of granite which emittes radon has which is radioactive and the people there are 100% healthy as anywhere else look it up of you won't take my word so shut up ignorant people.

[jonjon1957jonjon]

At last, a use for my Geiger counter. I've already written off for the booklet!

[SheWolf8765]

Radioactive? RADIOACTIVE?!?!?!

[rolo6rolo]

It's soooooo good it will "clean" your skin right off XD

[rookieninetynine]

Cleaned right down to the skull...

[0wolabi97]

long ass commercial

[R4P7ORx651]

Haha... "...Just radio-active enough..."

[billyboyinbc]

Ban human testing!

[Xforeverlove21]

I rather have the dirt on my face

[thelazycomic]

Your complexion has such a glow. Oops... sorry... it's the uranium.

[belinda2118]

It's a vibrator.

[MeltedLollipop]

you gotta admit things were simpler back then! now we got carmal babies walking around part human part monkey! nasty little boogers!

[trinketbox1]

If you've got on so much makeup that you register on a geiger-counter, use a damn putty knife to get it off!

[pecopete3]

dorithy grey/dorian grey hmmmm

[pecopete3]

pour 50 million tons on top of the burnt out reactors in Japan,problem solved.

[sophia11913]

i dont get it want happen to the model

[westnblu]

So long as it keeps u lookin young right ? haha crank up the geiger counter!! LOL

[cqwerv]

In the next ad, they showed how effective Dorothy Grey cold cream was at removing dirt with spores of anthrax.

Unfortunately, the third and final ad proved to be their undoing, as Dorothy Grey cold cream did no better than any other cleanser when removing dirt composed of molten tar and iron filings.

[meimeiswan]

The sound is too low. Difficult to hear.

[barryperrins]

Wonder if her teeth fell out shortly afterwards!

[SeberHusky]

"Just radioactive enough to register on a geiger counter."

THEY SAY THAT LIKE IT'S A GOOD THING! It's not!

[tobecome2]

lol a banana has a raidoactive agent in it ... because of all the testting that was done back in the time ...

[Htown20XX]

@rolex452 uranium is extremely weakly radioactive the danger is that its a chemical hazard its a heavy metal like lead (lead is more toxic ) plutonium is about as dangerous as lead yet your not afraid of lead.

[rolex452]

Dorothy Grey cleansing cream, contains all natural ingredients: Lard, Uranium 235, and a hint of Hydrochloric Acid for exfoliating dead skin...gentle enough for a baby!

[AccelerationPictures]

I'm going to write to them lol!

[GeorgiaFraietta]

Umm that's not shocking... Our smoke alarms are slightly radioactive

[libbamacushla]

Has anybody written to the address given, asking for a copy of the booklet?

[Lobatschewsky]

They could use this stuff in Japan right now.

[dndbrek]

But not radioactive...JUST radioactive enough.

[cannedbabyseal]

You folks have no idea what was going on in this commercial. There seems to be a lack of understanding with regards to the nature of radiation. I failed to see the shock, thus a thumbs down for me.

[texasghost]

Ahhh...the scare tactics people use to get you to buy their products...especially during the height of the nuclear age of the 50's.

YOUR FACE HAS RADIATION!! BUY OUR COLD CREAM AND GET IT OFF NOW!!!

[SuperStarsNStripes]

The dirt had to be made radioactive to see if any film was left behind? How about oh sticky tape or a white wash rag?

[GunBigotHater]

Did you know that the mantle of a Coleman Lantern will set off "friskers" and Geiger counters?

Yet you wouldn't think twice about using a Coleman lantern. It's amazing, the things all around you that emit radiation.

[MrJasonWebb]

Ah, the 50's...when smoking and radioactivity were harmless.

[ttoonz]

@MrJasonWebb That's why they were the "good ol' days!"

[MegaWeike]

radio active is nto that dangerous! do your physics right, it happens with every, well almost, atoms, only slowly. But it certainly ain't good for you. PS, i wonder that adress said in the end still exists

[queenanthai2]

Oh, sure, that's a perfectly reasonable test to WHAT

[AMANDACARMAN]

Hello...we have showers in our homes nowadays!

[horarwgt]

Now we know just what to do to give our faces that very special glow.

[RORER714z]

Geiger Counter... wtf

[MrBob2273]

I used to use darathy grey salon cream on my face, then my face peeled off.

[SharonLougheed]

*Sets headphones to mono* LIKE A BOSS

BTW, Just a little bit of radiation might not be dangerous at all if the counter was sensitive enough. However I'd be crazy to do anything like that just for a makeup cleanser... especially in the 1950s.

[hanteek]

Do you know what else helps pores clogged with makeup? Not clogging your pores with makeup! 

[OGNightElfMohawk]

Does anyone have a .pdf of the booklet they offer at the end of this commercial?

[ArtypNk]

I love nature, but I dislike people. By using Dorothy Grey cream, I was able to finally visit Fukushima, and enjoy the beautiful sights of Japan without any of that pesky radioactive dust, or crowds.

[insignia2543]

I wish I could pee napalm

[LibertineDeSade]

Did her face died? ...Sorry, I had to.

[juliheart98]

What's the shocking part?

[Ladylyla]

@juliheart98 maybe the part when they put radioactive dirt on her skin??? :D

[MrIrishBilly]

Fall Out with your neighbors.... You need Dorothy Grey Cold War cream 

[joysjje18]

shocking?



[Orbot]

.........aaaaand CUE SKIN CANCER!!!

[ChuckyJesus666]

Wow...if they put radioactive materials on that model's face...what did they do with animals during testing??

[clintonearlwalker]

@ChuckyJesus666 Look up "radium girls". The glow in the dark dials they used to put on watches, (I had one) had radium painted on the dial. Girls used to hand paint these dials with tiny paint brushes. Radioactivity wasn't understood by most people back then, and they told these girls it would make them look younger, etc. Many of them got cancer and I think they are still filing lawsuits to this day.

[PrincessKLS]

How is this shocking?

[EquestriaDJ]

@PrincessKLS The company irradiated the make-up the model was wearing just to prove a point. The point was that the cleanser they were selling could remove any impurities from the skin to where even lingering radiation from dirt near atomic test sites would be no match for the product.

Short version; They risked the health and safety of their model to sell more product.

[NexusGas]

I thought my speaker broke.

[redshirtyear]

I wrote for that Atomic Test Booklet, and they didn't send me shit!

[iAreAless]

Any radiation is TO MUHC

[iAreAless]

No lady, any radiation is TO MUCH radiation

[katgurl217]

Improper cleansing? Soap? No. That stuff "Dorothy Grey Cream" is what will clog your pores.

[Ihateirans]

...for that GLOWING complexion!

[countryFTW1988]

My left ear was entertained.

[SuperCulloden]

Those were the days before government regulations up the butt, a continuation of young America when wandering medicine men arrived in small towns, beat on a large drum and the rubes gathered around to listen to the wonders of an elixir that would cure every ailment known to man.

It's all gone, the people of today have lost that spirit of adventure, replacing it by dressing like slobs, disfiguring their bodies with tattoos and obscene piercings.

The "Geiger" counter was innocent by comparison.

[newguy33X]

@SuperCulloden No, people still fall for all sorts of fake medicines. People buy all sorts of things because they contain remnants of berries which (if eaten fresh) would have given them a decent serving of antioxidants. The beauty industry tries to convince people that their hair and skin basically need food (vitamins added to shampoo). Any new discovery about any new plant and people are all over selling crap that is associated with it.

[sollysolman]

0:27 to 0:32 WHAT THE FUCK?!!

[WildBillHickums]

this needs a jaboody dubs parody

[joeyc5446]

DARATHY

[syyenergy7]

stupid cunt

[mrsbillionaire]

Before zip codes, they used 2 digit postal codes.  They were listed before the city and state as opposed to after, like zip codes.

[CWR032]

I think there's something wrong with my right ear

[Scoobyschwarzter]

Who says so ?

[BossRgr]

@Owvin - zip codes didn't exist until the 60's.

[aTruster]

And of course you glow in the dark.

[BassBoe]

that is just to much! radioactive make-up how completely the 50's! vintage stuff

[aperson224]

I go from this boy that sounds like a girl to this... What the hell? Why do I always end up in the weird parts of YouTube?

[cribpointcritter]

What on earth was "cold cream" s'pposed to do? I cant understand the logic of how smearing that stuff on your face was meant to make it cleaner???

[MAXBLAYLOCK]

Do people still use cold cream?

[morgankitty1]

write  ????

[Owvin]

I also noticed something at the end of the video:

No zip code listed with the address.

[SpaceGroceries1]

@Owvin Zipcodes weren't created until the late 50's early 60's.

[Jim5150jvc]

I used to work in a lab and at the mandatory safety class all new employees had to take at the beginning, the guy hosting it brought in some "Nu-Salt" salt-substitute and put it under a Geiger-Muller counter. It started chirping at least the rate as the one in this commercial. This was due to the presence of radioactive potassium (K-40) that's used as a sodium substitute. If it's ok to ingest it, I'm sure putting it on your face isn't more dangerous.

[xxnikkiespencxx]

@Jim5150jvc than put some on your face and see how you look

[debuitleirable]

@Jim5150jvc Who said it was safe to ingest k-40? radioactive!!!! just because big brother says something is alright doesn't mean it is

[jimbritttn]

I would love to see what her face looked like 50 yr later



[Appo47]

Radioactivity is pretty much everywhere, just like radio waves, she probably was fine lol

[Koxtanxganguroxgirl]

radioactive?!?!?



[DropPodFullOfPonies]

Screw a fallout shelter, when the bomb drops I'm gonna coat my body with Dorothy Grey cold cream and prance around the post-nuclear hellscape butt-naked! Mwahahahahaaa...

[Bfdidc]

@DropPodFullOfPonies Not only butt-naked, but looking freshly made-up and fabulous.

[jolyjacktar]

@DropPodFullOfPonies

ROFLOL

[udontnoimkool]

Just radioactive enough lol

[nikflagstar]

hahahahahaha!



[123therandomham]

???

[2bonk22]

What the hell did you expect? They used to Xray your feet to make sure your shoes fit back in the 50s. This is not surprising. They really didn't know the danger.

[keyblade19961]

@2bonk22 i heard that when the x-rays came out everyone thought of them as if they were taking photo's of their bones, so they would have x-ray pictures hanged all over their houses XD

[Cissy2cute]

This way she won't glow in the dark! Good lesson on how to put on face cream, though.

[Cryo837]

Ah yes, the days before all the "living better thru science" products were found to cause.....roll out the list. And even darker, how our own government and medical mafia did things like testing biowarfare agents/diseases on prisoners and the mentally ill.

It is just that in the "innocent" days the b$stard$ could get away with it without anyone finding out.

[Ashlady2u]

OMG!

[Talisguy]

One good thing about the future? Every year that passes gets us further away from the fifties and shit like this.

We made her face cream JUST radioactive enough to register. Well, that's a relief. -_-

[schallrd1]

Dorothy Grey probably died of skin cancer.

[usmcoth]

It can remove ugly too. Wow, claiming they can remove radiation. What will they claim next? It will help you lose weight and feel younger too. Oops, they do and WOMEN BOUGHT IT hook, line and sinker.

[garret1811]

i hate silent

[Dusty696969]

With this cream anyone can withstand radiation from any hydrogen nuclear device. Remember your only radon free with Dorothy Grey Cream.

[hexum7]

We've injected 5 liters of flesh eating bacteria into our model's face! Let's see if Dorothy Grey Salon Cold Cream can even out her ravaged complexion!

It's so quick and easy too! Takes no more time than digesting feces!

[LaurensLordDodo]

Your tactical nuke is on your face

[sushi1942]

@DeagleBeagle To be honest, me neither. I didn't see anything awkward.

[TheSisko1]

she may be clean but she's now radioactive

[jamie1707]

It's hard to believe and not widely known that the model in that commercial survived a nuclear reactor melt down. By using Dorothy Grey cold cream, her skin completely healed and today her complexion still has the healthy, supple glow of youth. Too bad she glows in the dark and has 6 thumbs, three buttocks and pees napalm.

[caroljmcbr]

@jamie1707 OMG jamie1707 you got me laughin so hard I can't stand up now.

[DeagleBeagle]

I dont get why this is funny

[DogFather0808]

Thirty years later that poor woman probably broke out with skin cancer all over her face. 100 years ago x-ray technicians were losing their entire hands one finger at a time because they would wave them in front of the scope to test the units before using them on patients. We really have done a lot of stupid things with dangerous technologies we didn't understand.

[hamstervampire]

WTF??!! radioactive??!!

[drugobianconero91]

Old times....

[WILLIAMCHANEL]

JUST radioactive enough....  LORD

[lndac02]

Funny to watch, I assume the Dorothy Gray PR machine was taking full advantage of the 1950s fixation with the word ATOMIC to sell its creams. We might think that things have progressed, but take a look at the next Garnier, L'Oreal or Nivea advert you see, they love throwing pseudo science into their adverts to sell their equally useless creams to its army of loyal but utterly vain pinheaded women

[burpo]

Those Chyrnoble guys have the tiniest pores.

[trunksss5]

Cleans 2.5 times better then soap...... By melting your face off

[CoruptedSector]

Pffttt... Radiation is for the most part all around us. Its really not that big of deal unless you get it inside you, eating or drinking it. Outside the body, the air helps keep us safe, allows air molecules to lose their electrons first, and dilutes the radicals. Most Americans have radioactive elements in their house. Not to mention the unstable carbon in your body.

[Gearz86]

So retarded.

[randomness145]

Something like that. Radiation is rly only used nowadays for nuclear plants (bad ideas) and irradiation (which is as safe as chemical preservatives, meaning if you eat something irradiated you won't get cancer the next day, but there is no proof as to what the effect will be in 30 years). And actually irradiation could preserve food longer with little variation in taste, and actually put an end to salmonella, E.Coli etc. In this country if we began using tht method rather than the refrigerator

[randomness145]

And back then they didn't really understand the whole 'radiation is bad' concept. They used to put radiation in watches and these girls who made the watches and worked with the radiation accidentally got some radioactive paint on themselves while painting on the clock faces and after seeing how it glowed they actually painted all over their body with it because they didn't know it was harmful. Unfortunately the girls died, but everyone knows that radiation is harmful now so they would never do

[randomness145]

People if this cream still existed it would be perfectly safe. If you had really payed attention to the vid thn you would know that the cream wasn't radioactive but the dirt put on her face was the thing 'just radioactive enough to register on the Geiger Scale'. Still stupid and dangerous but they weren't mass producing radioactive stuff.

[DoesItOften]

ahhhh what's the zip code

[michaelwuzthere]

@DoesItOften Manhattan: 10001

[malestrom1000]

Wow! That is shocking! Makeup with radiation in it!



[seeqer66]

After I had my heart attack, they shot radiation DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS!!!! Probably even more than they rubbed all over her face. OMG! I'M GONNA DIE!!!!

[oojzero2]

I used to use geiger counters on model's faces...but then I took an arrow to the knee.

[smoothpeople33]

Where can I get some Dorthy Grey Facial Creme for the holidays....there not out of business or anything???

[nottinmatterz2day]

howabout NEVER put on makeup in the first place?

[mattfirebird]

Dorosey Grey salon cold cream vill help take away all of zat unwanted dirt on your face...right down to za bone. I'm Dr. Evard Teller und I approve zis message.

[JAAstudio]

I wanna try that!

NOT

[twomblypublishing]

and that's how advertising is done... why does everyone who's watched this commercial seem to think that they actually DID put radioactive material on her face to prove the cleansing nature of the product... the economical way to make the point ( remember, consumer laws were not what they are now).. was to read the script and have a device that made the clicking noise when it was held up to her face... no actual radioactivity involved... just a dog + pony show

[LolliRotti]

Think that booklet is still available? As a radiological engineer, it would be super interesting to look at.

[jabara83]

dont think they new wat radioactivity did to u back then?

[satanisthetruegod666]

@jabara83 no, they actually used to put radioactive chemicals in make-up and paint to make it glow.

[jabara83]

@satanisthetruegod666 ya but and they stopped doing that when they realized it killed people

[satanisthetruegod666]

@jabara83 but my point was they were ignorant of radiations effects, until it killed people.

[satanisthetruegod666]

@jabara83 but my point was they didn't realize the dangers until it killed people.

[dennisrayso]

lol wont they glow in the dark?

[ivajdavis]

i used to put radioactive dirt in my face...then i took an arrow to the knee

[InCityDreamss]

@ivajdavis I keep seeing people comment with.........and then I took an arrow to the knee. Where did this saying come from?

[satanisthetruegod666]

@InCityDreamss probably /b/ it's where most of that kind of stuff comes from.

[SunZen]

@InCityDreamss LOL! It's becoming part of popular culture due to a recently released game called "Skyrim". In the game a character often says, "I used to be an Adventurer and then I took an arrow to the knee."

[JxT1957]

a giger counter?

[gcastro44]

@JxT1957 Yes, a Geiger Counter is a devise used to measure ionizing radiation. So yes, this "Salon Cold Cream" is radioactive.

[mccheese0]

Awesome, awesome, utterly awesome! Cleansing cream that can remove fallout 2 1/2 times better than soap!!! Thank you Dorothy Grey.

[Dudeamis]

@mccheese0 yeah but do they have a good mutant zombie repellent?

[TheTaurniOne]

@mccheese0 This must be the partially hydrogenated form of Rad-away!

[comerbran]

Atleast they were honest what they did to the cream.

[ohmuhstars]

@comerbran noooo the radiation was not in the cream! It was in the dirt applied to her face... then she washed with different cold creams, and the radiation was measured with the geiger counter.. and the area with least radiation measured was the area that used Dorothy Gray cold cream (thus proving it had removed the most crap).

[DracoPilamZ]

Nowadays they don't even tell you if something has radiation in it.  For example, green tea is contaminated with radioactive iodine and other stuff.

[CycolacFan]

Not sure I'd trust a company whose mailing address is based at a railway station post box...

[madamerotten]

Just what you need for that glowing complexion!