When radioactive products were in vogue

At the beginning of the 20th century radium was discovered by  Pierre and Marie Curie, who used Becquerel’s research on radioactivity. Considered as a miraculous product, professional industries and schemers alike seized the trend, resulting in a wide variety of radium goods.

Radium was THE the trend up until the 1940’s : clothes, sodas, radium  water, cosmetic cremes, medicines and potions promising to cure diseases or boost sexuality.  One point for team Radioactive Quackery.

For decades, companies marketed these products without caution despite a scandal in 1917. The trial pertained to the first hearing of the Radium Girls, who made watches with luminous hands by using paint consisting of…radium. Major breakthroughs were made by Hermann J. Muller, whose research proved the toxicity of radiation in 1927. Yet it was the death of American billionaire Eben MacBurney Byers en 1932 , who was known to take a daily does of Radithor, which finally stopped the Radiation-Cure era.

1-Make yourself into an atomic beauty

2- Radium remedies and creams

William J.A. Bailey’ deadly invention

5-Boost your sex life with radium!