This brand still existed into the 1970's, advertising under the same name! I assume in the 1940's, the modern slang was not in common use. Some word origin sites say "poo" arose in the 1950's. By the 1970's, this branding must have become problematic!

Nothing wrong with the product, as far as I know. Similar dry shampoos can be purchased today, under rather different branding.

Well, I do feel a bit better after a mini poo.

In the past, you had to hand draw promotional pictures to convey the marketing message. Nowadays, you just generate the same pictures with AI. Either way, the pictures and stories are equally fake.

I guess the biggest difference is the amount of time a human spent with the picture. Nowadays, some marketing pictures clearly went through exactly zero seconds of quality control.

But they're hot so exporting them makes me colder when I have a cold. 😨

Here is the same product, in a 1970's ad. I like how they call it a "new discovery", when their very own product existed since the 1940's!

Makes me sweat out the cold sometimes, depends what I eat beforehand.

Am I... not supposed to use shampoo when I have a cold? Or is that just marketing capitalizing on folk beliefs?

Haha I wondered that too! I have always showered and shampooed even with colds, and I feel like nothing grisly came of it. I was not beset by shampoo modified horror viruses.

But maybe there is a reason, and nobody told us of it.

No need for shlepping that tray of cold cuts, she's taking her cold virus to the party!

What a bunch of morons. If you're sick, one of the best thing you could possibly do is wash yourself...

I've never gotten a cold from playing in the rain....

I do know that some people say that you will catch a cold if you go to bed with wet hair, maybe it's related.

I think the idea is avoiding a wet head for a prolonged period.

The steam! The benefits of shower steam are lifesaving for us poor congested people who have to live without a sauna.

Sounds like a good guess to me. I bet it's something like that.

I guess feeling cold doesn't directly make you catch a cold, but it can stress your immune system, which weakens your defenses vs the virus. Maybe they had similar ideas about wet hair. Nevermind that you'd already have the virus when using the minipoo in the ad's scenario, heh.

Sort of like every stupid video online that refers to some dumb thing as "the viral" whatever.