Lysol shouldn’t be ingested to combat the coronavirus, but it was once advertised as birth control
again—now that I know aboutOne of Lysol's 1930's-era ads marketing itself as a"feminine hygiene product.That women’s private anatomy is inherently “unclean” is a misogynistic idea that is biblical in origin. But shaming women into pleasing their husbands isn’t the entire goal of these ads, either.
The implication of this dangerous marketing campaign? A wash of Lysol a day keeps the babies away. Except, not only did it fail to do this , but it was deadly. “By 1911, doctors had recorded 193 Lysol poisonings, including 21 suicides, 1 homicide and five deaths from uterine irrigation,” Tone writes in her book. A
that examined “Lysol-Induced Criminal Abortion” had similar results, finding “phenol poisoning” as a contributing cause of death to one of the patients in the study. Phenol was then, and still is now, an ingredient in Lysol.Alamy Photo Agency Lysol, which at the time was manufactured by the firm Lehn & Fink, changed its formula in the early 1950s to eliminate cresol, one of its harsher ingredients thatBy the 1960s, Lysol advertising shifted to focus on its utility as a bathroom disinfectant; meanwhile, birth control became legal for married couples in 1965 and unmarried people in 1972. Lysol’s use as a contraceptive would slowly fade, as would its reputation as such.
Friday in the Oval Office. Trump claimed he was “asking a questions sarcastically to reporters just to see what would happen.”shortly before the president cleaned up his Lysol mess: “Please don’t poison yourself because Donald Trump thinks it would be a good idea.”
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