Pétrole Hahn Hair Tonic

Pétrole Hahn hair tonic was sold beginning in 1885.

Here are some of their art deco and other vintage print ads.

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, L’Illustration, February 9, 1918, page 2. Public domain image.

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, from Les Feuillets d'Art, 1920.

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, pochoir from Les Feuillets d'Art, 1920.

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, “arrête la chute des cheveux,” illustration by Charles Martin, unknown date.
 

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, L’Illustration, December 6, 1930.

Pétrole Hahn advertisement, designed by Andre Wilquin, circa 1930.

Ellen Auerbach, Grete Stern, Studio Ringl & Pit, Pétrole Hahn, 1931.
Collection SFMOMA. © Ringl & Pit, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery. (1)

 Dora Maar and Pierre Kefer, "Étude publicitaire pour Pétrole Hahn." Original silver gelatin glass negative plate.
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1934. (2)

 Dora Maar, ferrotyped, 1935. (3)

1. The Jewish Women's Archive interviewed the photographers Ellen Auerbach and Grete Stern about their image which was used as an ad for Pétrole Hahn hair lotion. It combined a nightgown, mannequin head, and a real hand, but the photographers later forgot whose hand was in the photo and which one took the photograph.

2. Dora Maar's surrealist advertising work in the early 1930s, included this image of a boat sailing through an ocean of hair.
3. www.mutualart.com

Beard Balls and other holiday treats

It's the winter holiday season and there is nothing quite like a parade of bobbles, especially for your beard and bouffant.

Brooklyn Beach Hair

Brooklyn beaches are so cool that your hair even knows your not in Long Island, the Jersey Shore, Florida, or California anymore.

"Natural sea salt gives you volume, and a dose of jojoba oil keeps the salt from being overly drying."

It's certainly not the ingredients that give this hair tonic its Brooklyn flavor, but that isn't going to stop some marketer from promoting Brooklyn Beach Hair as an obtainable look. There is a feeding frenzy over Brooklyn's cool factor right now. According to the New York Daily News, Brooklyn has become one of the nation's 30 most popular girls' names, moving from #912 in the nation to #28 in 2013. Of course of the 41 states where Brooklyn is now the most popular girl's name beginning with B, New York is not among them. We know what's up. Our garbage still stinks.