Tho-Radia - Wikipedia
Tho-Radia was a French pharmaceutical company making cosmetics between 1932 and 1968. Tho-Radia-branded creams, toothpastes and soaps were notable for containing radium and thorium until 1937, as a scheme to exploit popular interest for radium after it was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie, in a fad of radioactive quackery.
Tho-Radia Items (ca 1950s) | Museum of Radiation and ...
Tho-Radia was founded in 1932 by the pharmacist Alexis Moussalli. His intent was to create a line of cosmetics incorporating rare earths such as thorium and radium. Moussalli brought the physician Alfred Curie on board as a figurehead in order to capitalize on the name made famous by Pierre and Marie Curie.
Tho Radia - Museum of Radium
The Paris-based beauty product range Tho Radia launched in 1933 with a bang and a very strong look. Their eye-catching posters and beautiful packing expressed modernist luxury tastes with simple silver and black cardboard powder pots with clear white text on the top.
Cosmetics and Skin: Radioactive Cosmetics
2021年9月6日 · Tho-Radia display at a trade show. The product range, which included a cleansing milk, skin cream, powder, rouge, lipstick and toothpaste, was called Tho-Radia as it contained thorium chloride and radium bromide, both of which are radioactive.
When beauty products were radioactive - CNN
2020年3月9日 · Billed as a “scientific beauty product,” it promised to improve circulation, firm muscle tissue, reduce fat and smooth wrinkles. It was part of a line of cosmetics called Tho-Radia – after...
Alfred Curie and Tho Radia - Museum of Radium
2020年9月5日 · In 1933 a new brand of radioactive cosmetics – Tho Radia – was launched in Paris with a striking poster campaign by Tony Burnand. Prominent on this poster was the name Docteur Alfred Curie who, we were told, was the originator of the formula used in the range, which included creams, toothpaste, and soap.
Radioactive quackery - Wikipedia
Radioactive quackery is quackery that improperly promotes radioactivity as a therapy for illnesses. Unlike radiotherapy, which is the scientifically sound use of radiation for the destruction of cells (usually cancer cells), quackery pseudo-scientifically promotes involving radioactive substances as a method of healing for cells and tissues.