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Dove
soap & body wash
It’s the number-
one-selling soap in
the United States,
thanks in large part to its most famous
ingredient: “moisturizing cream.”

Chobani
greek yogurt The name
means “shepherd”—but
not in Greek. Hamdi
Ulukaya, who founded the company,
came to the United States from his native
Turkey in 1994.

Dr. Scholl’s
foot care William Scholl, a
Chicago shoe salesman turned
medical doctor, created his
first arch support in 1904,
before he’d even graduated
from med school.

ZzzQuil
sleep aid Unlike some other
over-the-counter sleep aids,
ZzzQuil contains no pain
relievers. Also unlike other
brands, it comes in dreamy-
sounding flavors such as
Calming Vanilla Cherry and
Warming Berry.

Nature Made
fish oil Science has yet to
establish the effectiveness
of many supplements, but
fish oil has long been shown
to help prevent heart
disease.

headache & pain reliever
TYLENOL
Along with gravity and potato
chips, Tylenol is one of history’s
great accidental discoveries. In
1886, a pair of German medical
students were treating a patient’s
intestinal worms (ew) when they
mistakenly dosed her with a
chemical cocktail that her body
metabolized into acetaminophen.
The patient’s fever broke. Aceta-
minophen became popular
across Europe, and in 1955,
the Philadelphia family running
McNeil Laboratories, a pharma-
ceutical company, brought the
drug to America as Tylenol Elixir
for Children, a prescription- only
antipyretic packaged like a tiny
red fire truck and marketed “for
little hotheads.” The marketing,
and the medicine, worked. Today,
Tylenol heals hot heads (large
and little) in 13 countries.

80 march 2019

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