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278: 270: 1743: 36: 235: 1755: 261:, the last line was changed from "They'll love to run their fingers through your hair", to "They'll love the natural look it gives your hair". Subsequent television advertisements used the mottoes "Grooms without gumming" and later, in the 1970s, in the United Kingdom and Canada, "A little dab of Brylcreem on your hair gives you the Brylcreem bounce". 246:"Brylcreem — A Little Dab'll Do Ya! Brylcreem — You'll look so debonair. Brylcreem — The gals'll all pursue ya; they'll love to run their fingers through your hair!". Another version was "Brylcreem—a little dab will do ya! Use more only if you dare; but watch out! The gals will all pursue ya! They'll love to run their fingers through your hair!" 371:
became known as "Brylcreem boys". While there is a popular belief that it was intended as an insult by other branches of the forces due to the RAF's perceived safe and comfortable job back in Britain, in fact the truth is more prosaic: Brylcreem used an image of an RAF airman in their print ads from
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advertising agency. The television advertisement for Brylcreem included a cartoon animation of a man with (initially) shaggy hair, who happily has a little dab applied, and, miraculously, the hair combs and smooths itself.
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footballer, was one of the earliest British sportsmen to make serious money from product endorsement when he advertised Brylcreem in the 1940s and 1950s.
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was the first Pakistani cricketer to model for Brylcreem. It was the first time a commercial brand had hired a Pakistani cricketer as a model.
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mentions having Brylcreem in his medicine cabinet when discussing how people tend to hold on to older items that they may no longer need.
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Brylcreem advertisement at a railway station in England in 1944 with the slogan, "Keep your hair shipshape - Brylcreem your hair".
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in June 1993. In January 2012, the global rights to the Brylcreem brand were sold by Sara Lee Corporation to
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When the dry look became popular, partly inspired by the unoiled moptops of
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era of his career always sported Brylcreem over the much more popular
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brand of pomade sported by friends and other stars of the scene like
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in May 2010, the brand was distributed by Godrej in India.
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Brylcreem schoolboy meets hero Beckham to form dream team
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acquired a 51% stake of Sara Lee, in their joint venture
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Del Ponte, Jimmy, "And now a word from our sponsor",
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Brylcream Boulevard
A tub of Brylcreem
Unilever
Combe Incorporated
Unilever
HUL
Official website
/ˈbrɪlkrm/
Birmingham
emulsion
mineral oil
beeswax
brilliantine
Beecham
Sara Lee
SmithKline Beecham
Unilever
Combe Incorporated
Unilever
Hindustan Unilever Limited
Godrej

jingle
Young & Rubicam
the Beatles


Shaftesbury Avenue
The Brylcreem Boys
Terence Ryan

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