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21 November 2008

Florida Factoid Friday

Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream
in 1944. He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa butter
in a granite coffee pot on his wife's stove.

3 comments:

SwampAngel65 said...

Cool! I never thought about who invented it, but I never would've thought it was someone from here. Do you now the name he called it?

cedrorum said...

Why doesn't it surprise me that this was invented in Florida. I like the new header picture.

SophieMae said...

SwampAngel, it was Coppertone. I looked all over for a pic of the original label, but I reckon it was too un-PC.

Cedrorum, thanks!
Makes sense, doesn't it?