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Fairy Child
I just thought that you would appreciate knowing that the little girl who sits on top of the Fairy Soap bar is actually my Great Grandmother. She grew up in NYC and moved her family to West Haven, CT in the early 1920’s. Her older brother brought her to an artists house every Saturday for 2 months, to paint the portrait which you see today. With the money she received from the advert, she was able to feed her entire family for over 3 months. I’ve heard people compare her to Shirley Temple – because of her cute curls.
THANKS!
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You can see more information about the history of Fairy Soap here
May 6th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
FairiesWorld really appreciates your writing to us. Our visitors are information hungry. Your story fills us full of nostalgia, what was then a small soap business starting up but now of course part of the giant Procter and Gamble worldwide empire. We know children were always being told to ‘wash behind their ears’ maybe this was the manufacturers way to encourage both parents and children to look as cute as your great grandmother. Fairy is still a well marketed brand of cleaning products in the United Kingdom however the company logo has changed over the years.
You can however find reproduction ceramic Victorian advertisment plaques for nostalgic products of a bygone age, so Great Grandmother still lives on in many households looking down angelically from her bar of white Fairy soap.
How satisfying that must be!