The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol ...

brushed their teeth with radium toothpaste, and wore radium cosmetics that gave their skin a bright, cheery glow. Mixed with the right kind of paint, radium would luminesce after exposure to light ...

And it was fashionable: society ladies drank afternoon tea in rooms filled with radium vapours, and cosmetic companies developed hair tonics, face lotions and anti-wrinkle creams, all claiming to ...

There were 13 in all working at the Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey. But Theatre Baton Rouge's Young Actors Program will look at this true life story through the eyes of only three Radium ...

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Shoppers can’t stand when toothpaste, deodorant and other items are locked up behind glass display cabinets at stores. Customers, accustomed to taking whatever they want off a shelf, don’t ...

"We do produce some of our products for the U.S. in Mexico, primarily toothpaste, and we're working on potential mitigation plans," Sutula said. Colgate has said its toothpaste, sold under brands ...

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What was it supposed to do? Hard to say. “neither time nor money” in their “efforts to substantiate . . . the almost unbelievable health results that early users of this invention [the Thomas Radium C ...