Radioactive Consumer Stuff
Radioactivity is generally something that you should avoid. However, it can be used for good things. For instance:
How about some everyday products for the average Joe or Jane? They didn't put it in Brylcreem (for hair) but they could have used its advertising slogan: A little dab will do you.
So what you want to do when you get up in the morning is use some radioactive toothpaste. Offered by the Auergesellschaft company in Germany from 1940-1945. It contained low levels of thorium.
Not just Whitening: GLOWING!
What would be a good thing to smear on your face: Radioactive material
This is perhaps one of the best uses of radioactive substances. There is a saying that women don't sweat, they "glow." While I'm fairly certain that women do actually sweat, they certain would also glow when wearing Tho-Radia. The product was introduced in France in the 1930's. It contained 0.5g thorium chloride and 0.25mg radium bromide per 100g.
Is it near lunch yet. How about some Radium Bread?
Did it prevent cavities? Did using it allow Russian snipers to shoot you if happened to smile during the night? Probably not a problem since the German's did not have much to smile about in Russia (especially during the cold night).
That is right. Radium bread. Radium water from Joachimstal was used in the production of loaves manufactured by the Hippman-Blach bakery in what is now the Czech Republic. Although the production technique would have led to an increase in radium levels, the amount present in the bread was not dangerous.
While people no longer get to eat irradiated bread, our food still is helped by the use of radiation. Even though the radiation is used, it does not get
into the food.
