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Article: Northeast Ohio Manufacturer Confident of Its Hand Lotion.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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By Cynthia Vinarsky, Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 8--BERLIN CENTER, Ohio--It was 1946, the nation was in the midst of a postwar building boom, and construction workers were lining up at Zimmerman's Pharmacy in Austintown to buy Cement Workers' Lotion.
Mixed to order at $1 for a 3-ounce bottle, it was a blend of herbs, glycerin and water invented by pharmacist Walter Zimmerman and his 15-year-old apprentice, Bob Roth. Workers raved that it was the only thing that worked to soothe and heal their cracked, dry hands.
Zimmerman eventually sold the store, his apprentice grew up and moved away, and the ...