"You'll just have time to wash." Vintage Lightfoot Schultz

-Lightfoot Schultz castile bar soap boxes from the late 1930s...

Dopey Soap Box, 1938. Images via Main Street Mouse. Use with permission.

Manufactured in 1938 by Lightfoot Schultz Co. in NYC, the carved castile soap bars (see below) were hand- painted with "harmless vegetable color". Snow White and each of the seven dwarfs were sold in individual boxes complete with cotton batting packing material.

Eight box set. Image via Worth Point.

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-The "Book" Set...

The soap bars were also offered as a set in a Snow White "book". The box design was made to resemble a large-format book with gold embossing and artwork on the cover and spine.

Special thanks to The Bubble Room for posting the following great pics of this rare treasure.

Front Cover Detail

Inside is a thin vellum frontispiece which restates the title, as well as the manufacturers info: "Modeled in Castile Soap - Painted with harmless vegetable color. Lightfoot Schultz Co.  Makers of fine soaps for over twenty- seven years. 389 Fifth Ave. New York." Source: The Bubble Room

The Snow White figure (5.5") was almost twice the height of the rest of the dwarfs (3").

This is certainly the best well-preserved set I've ever seen. Due to the nature of soap, most others have tended to look like those in the photo to the left. Decapitated Snow White Soap image via scott4364scott.

Each figure was stamped with the copyright mark,
© 1938 W. D. Ent.

Butt stamp image via scott4364scott.

All images of the Book Set copyright The Bubble Room (unless otherwise noted). Used with permission.