TOILET PREPARATIONS
Black Market In Britain LONDON, July 12. The black market turnover in toilet preparations exceeds the industry’s prewar trade, leading manufacturers revealed to The Daily Telegraph. Rubbish is selling for fantastic prices and manufacturers are making fortunes from preparations worthless and often harmful. Boxes of powder costing 2d to produce are sold for 3/6. Pots of inferior face cream described as skin food fetch 4/6 to 8/8. Spindle oil, which is a light lubricating oil, becomes brilliantine. Inferior wax used for some floor polishes becomes lipstick. About 35,000 small-scale manufacturers are estimated to be producing black market goods under unhygienic conditions.
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Southland Times, Issue 25705, 14 July 1943, Page 2
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103TOILET PREPARATIONS Southland Times, Issue 25705, 14 July 1943, Page 2
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