1946 – Mom, Kids, and Ipana Toothpaste

This month’s theme is motherhood. Here’s an ad from 1946 showing mid-century model and mother Genevieve Allen with her 2 smiling sons. The ad is for Ipana toothpaste.

Mother knows that today’s soft foods don’t give gums the exercise they need

The ad comes from the earliest mid-century magazine in my collection of women’s magazines published in the baby boomer birth years of 1946 to 1964. Note that in those days, the magazine’s attention-getting cover was not a celebrity, but rather a sweet sleeping newborn.

It was common to see Ipana toothpaste ads in mid-century women’s magazines. Everyone needed toothpaste and Ipana had a good size of the market share in those days. The Bristol-Meyers brand was extinct in the US by the late 1970’s.

Here’s another Ipana ad showing a “model-mother” and her children. This one’s from 1949.

More Information

1952 Ipana Ad on MidCenturyPage.com

1952 – Beautiful Music, Fresh Breath

Ipana on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipana