Play-Doh kids' classic wasn't invented to be a toy

[calendria]

 

    

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/kids-pets/a20074233/play-doh-originally-purpose-wallpaper-cleaner/

Play-Doh Originally Had A Very Different Purpose

But it turns out it was a wallpaper cleaner, first. Back in the late 1920s, a man named Cleo McVicker convinced the parent company of Kutol, a failing Cincinnati soap company, to let him and his brother, Noah McVicker, try and turn the brand around,
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McVicker’s son, Joseph McVicker, eventually decided to rebrand the wallpaper cleaner as a children’s toy when he found out that his sister-in-law had used it at the nursery school she ran as an inexpensive material for the children to make Christmas ornaments with in the early ‘50s.

[potluck6]

My kids and grand kids all like  it. Will probably get some for them soon.

[kleenex40]

Thanks for the info-i used to love playing with play doh(i love the smell of it)

[dreamyxo]

That's cool.

[ktheodos]

Interesting story....often times, great inventions get discovered "by accident"

[plennis]

Amazing i t started as as a cleaner when it always seems to make a big mess in my home!  LOL

[linderlizzie]

How very inventive. I love it! 

Seems as though there have been many accidents that became big hits. Including penicillin; fortunately for us. 

[teresa3200]

How interesting!

[alina6]

I was always a big play- doh fan growing up