I enjoy reading websites where seniors discuss issues of concern because they have progressive and meaningful online discussions. There are several websites with such profound yearnings for the vanished Pacquins Hand Cream it practically rips your heart out. One wonders if the folks at Johnson and Johnson have actually read them.
For fifty years or more Americans with cracked, dry, chapped hands who lived in climates with radical fluctuations in humidity, depended on Pacquins products for daily relief from extremely tight and sore hands. People swear the miracle cream is the only thing that works. Pacquin’s products, readily available and affordable in drug and department stores across the Nation for around $6 an 8 oz. tub (until a year ago) are now selling on Amazon.com, EBay and through the Vermont Country Store catalog for up to $80 an 8 oz. tub.
What could be in Pacquins hand and body cream to make it so desirable?
The formula includes lanoline, glycerin and a nice fragrance but that is all the yearning public knows.
The soothing affects on chapped, wind-burned skin of the Pacquin’s plus and Pacquin’s Medicated hand cream (in the purple container), are not the only selling feature of Pacquins products, apparently they are not ‘sticky’, and one ‘dab will do ya’; a ‘tub’ lasts a couple of months.
So why would Johnson & Johnson remove such a great item rather than simply increase the price? Only the folks who made the decision to stop producing and selling the Pacquin line of products know that, and that along with the formula is what people are dying to know.
I sincerely hope a strong, elderly relative of someone in the corporate office at Johnson and Johnson, who has been a Pacquins user all her life, jump-starts production of these hand and body creams again. As one post mentioned, not having Pacquins makes everything ‘corporate’ dismal,
“I was shocked to learn they had stopped making such a good skin care product. (I am shocked also, that GM makes a junk Chevrolet.) With corporate greed they way it is today, even if they did bring it back, they would charge a ridiculous high price just because people wanted it. Can we come up with some kind of homemade mix they we can make ourselves”?
I hope Pacquins products come back to give these poor people a little relief. If we wait too long, a bootleg product from Grandmother’s kitchen will surely surface.
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