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Depend
incontinence product
Some people might feel
uneasy having to ask a
store clerk for help buy-
ing this product. Fortunately, Depend
sends free sample kits to new customers.

Bausch + Lomb

contact solution Used lenses

can clog pipes and sink to the

bottom of waterways. Bausch +

Lomb’s recycling program has

safely disposed of more than

2.5 million pairs since 2016.

Olay
antiaging skin care
A year after its launch, in
2018, Olay’s Regenerist
Whip has become the

top-selling new skin-care product. Num-

ber two: Regenerist Whip with SPF 25.

NyQuil

cold & flu remedy People

with high blood pressure get

sick, too, but decongestants

can be dangerous for them.

NyQuil’s HBP formula is

specially made without

decongestants.

Aveeno

moisturizer In the 1940s,

an oatmeal bath by American

brothers Albert and Sidney

Musher worked wonders as an

eczema treatment. Since then,

Aveeno—from the Latin for

“oat”—has pioneered dozens

of nature-based skin products.

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lip care

CHAPSTICK

The Egyptians used beeswax. A 19th-century book,
The American Frugal Housewife, suggested earwax! So
Charles Browne Fleet didn’t invent lip balm. But in the
1890s, he combined wax with petroleum jelly, camphor,
and aromatic oils, and his ChapStick is still with us today.
(As is Fleet’s other famous health aid: the Fleet enema.)
ChapStick’s packaging is almost as ingenious as its in-
gredients. The signature tube, largely unchanged after
more than 100 years, can slip into any pocket or purse.
(It was so inconspicuous that E. Howard Hunt hid mini
microphones in hollowed-out ChapStick tubes during
Watergate.) Convenient, but not addictive, as some In-
ternet rumors insist. But don’t lick your lips before apply-
ing it—saliva is made to break down food, not moisturize.