#Drugstore Beauty

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Video thumbnail — 1992 Rebecca Gayheart's First TV Commercial in the 90's 90s as the Noxzema Girl
Fashion 1910s–present (1990s teen peak)

Noxzema

The cobalt-blue jar of medicated skin cream in every teenage bathroom, and the early-1990s commercials that made Rebecca Gayheart "the Noxzema Girl" before Clueless asked, "Is this, like, a Noxzema commercial or what?" A Maryland druggist's sunburn remedy from the 1910s, sold as a teen ritual eighty years later.

Video thumbnail — Salon Selectives - Helene Curtis - Like You Just Stepped Out of a Salon - Jingle Commercial (1991)
Fashion 1987–2004 (peak early 1990s)

Salon Selectives

The pink-and-coral bottles with the green-apple smell and a jingle people can still sing, Helene Curtis's 1987 promise that a drugstore shampoo could leave you "like you just stepped out of a salon." Unilever quietly killed it in 2004, and it has been getting revived ever since.