Fashion & Beauty
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Aug
10The Oldest Apothecary in America
Image Source: CO Bigelow
Based in New York City, C.O. Bigelow has providing tonics, prescriptions, beauty aids and hard to find items since 1838. Their lemon body cream, formulated in 1870 is still a favorite today, and everyone from Thomas Edison to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elvis Costello has shopped its aisles. The Greenwich Village store and original location, is stocked with a carefully edited selection of the best products from around the world. Core to the product assortment is the C.O. Bigelow Collection, based on the apothecary’s original, time-tested, formulas.
The illustrated history of CO Bigelow:
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