Pastes / Pearlies
One of The Treasury’s newest readers, Portugal native Joao, recently left this comment on my Well Groomed post.
“How on earth did you find this toothpaste? It is a truly classic of Portuguese design at its best and quite difficult to find these days with the Colgate invasion, even here in Portugal.”
Well, my tube of Couto brand paste was picked up at the Mertz Apothecary in Chicago. The non-Mertz-ishly named Mertz website smallflower.com provides an on-line source for hundreds of handsomely packaged, hard-to-find toiletry treasures.
There’s at least three other brands of tasteful pastes off the site I’d like to try, but not until I unleash at last my inner Newland Archer and try myself some tooth powder. Tooth powder, hot damn. What a world this world once was!
The link specifically to Couto, Joao, is right here, sir. Brush in style, friend.
March 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Hahaha!
You have no idea how this has provided material for a trip down memory lane!
Thanks dear stylish fresh mouth friend.
PS – oh and it’s Couto, not Cuoto
March 31st, 2009 at 9:16 am
This isn’t Portuguese but it sure looks good:
http://ffffound.com/image/bb9f14e73233203ae7e5afed2d8579a7d45e5047
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April 1st, 2009 at 7:20 am
Joao:
Carbon toothpaste in killer packaging – count me in!