Ben Rickert Snow White/Dwarfs Soap

This Seven Dwarfs Snap-Apart Soap collection probably dates from the 1970s. Manufactured by Ben Rickert, Inc., Wayne, New Jersey. Box measures 7.25" wide.

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Dwarf Box pics courtesy of Rick Payne via dadric's attic. Used with permission.

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A separate Snow White Sculptured Soap figure was also produced. Measures about 5.5" high x 2" wide. The copyright stamp on back of box reads © WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS, but no date is given. The Mickey, Donald and Goofy artwork is identical to that on above dwarf soap box.

Inside was a flier instructing interested parties to send $1.00 and a self-addressed stamped envelope with 15¢ postage to Rickert to receive six vinyl Disney stickies. Assuming these vinyl stickies and envelop weigh an ounce or less, the 15¢ first class postage would date this promotion to the late seventies.

Snow White Sculptured Soap images via hamishpunim and Disneyana Vintage Collectibles 4U.

"Wash? What fer? T'aint New Years."

-1938 boxed soap set...

Manufactured by Kerk Guild ©1938. Box measures 3" x 11" x 1 1/2” with hinged lid. Inside of lid includes text noting “Soap Perfumed With Fairy Land Flowers.” Additional text notes how Snow White taught the dwarfs to bathe themselves. Box contains six bars of soap, each with colorful stiff paper slipcover. Each cover and soap bar features image for that particular dwarf. “Grumpy” comes with an empty box as made and marked “Wouldn’t Take A Bath So He Gets No Soap.” Soap bars are engraved with the images of the dwarfs.

Kerk Guild Soap Set, 1938. Images and info via Hake's Americana and Collectibles.

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-Disney Store bar soap...

Snow White cameo soap bar with embossed image of the princess, rose scented, peek-thru box.

Disney Store Soap. Image via snowbrightmsn.

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-Plastic shower cap from Hong Kong...

Shower Cap 2010. Image courtesy of Best Toy. Used with permission.

Soaky Bubble Bath Bank

The Soaky Bubble Bath/Bank dates from the 1960s. Snow White's head on this first version functions as the top to the container. Once the bottle was empty, the slot on the back could be cut to be used for coin deposits.

Snow White Soaky Bubble Bath (10" tall) 1960s.
Image courtesy of Time Passages Nostalgia Company. Used with permission.

The back and bottom are marked as follows:

WHEN EMPTY SNIP SLOT

TO USE AS A COIN BANK

SOAKY

THE FUN BATH

DIRECTIONS ...

© WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS

COLGATE - PALMOLIVE CO.

NEW YORK, N.Y.

SOAKY ®

11 FL. OZ.

Another version was also created, this one with "movable arms" and an entire torso that functions as the container top. Hard plastic upper with soft plastic bottom. Stands 10.5" tall.

Movable Arms Snow White Soaky Bubble Bath (10" tall).  

 Image courtesy of Funk and Junk. Used with permission.

This Snow White Soaky can also be seen on page 862 of Hakes's Official Price Guide to Disney Collectibles, 2nd edition, 2007...

"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.