Dodo Body Lightening soap and packaging

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

a. This is an off-white bar of soap and its packaging. Rectangular in shape, the soap material is darkening slightly at one end. There are shallow ribbing marks and irregularities across the surface. It is wrapped in plastic. b. This is cardboard packaging for skin lightening soap. Front of packaging on the right side features an image of a young woman with her left side facing the viewer. She chin rests on her left shoulder as she looks at the viewer. Left of her head at the top of the packaging is stylized cursive text in purple that reads “Dodo." On the lower half of the front of the packing is a pink background. In the middle of the packaging is a white oval with purple and pink text within that reads "BODY SOAP/ LIGHTENING.

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