Terry O'Reilly
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first heard Apr 2026
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In the final shot of the commercial, the Corrado skids to a stop.
Then the old VW Beetle falls from the sky behind it in slow motion.
From Volkswagen.
It was a dramatic, memorable, tongue-in-cheek demonstration of the speed of the new Volkswagen Corrado.
Back in the early 90s, Janet Keston and Nancy Vonk were a creative team at advertising agency Ogilvy in Mather, Toronto.
They were assigned to the Dove soap account.
That year was a tipping point for the soap company, as its 35-year patent was expiring.
Dove was worried a competitor had a clone product in the works.
It was the first time in decades that Dove's number one status looked shaky.
Because Janet and Nancy were new to the account, Dove organized a technical briefing in its lab.
There they learned that Dove wasn't a soap, technically speaking.
It contained a non-soap ingredient developed during World War II to gently clean the skin of burn victims.
Because of that, Dove is pH neutral, which is one of the fundamental reasons why it's so easy on skin.
It didn't strip away skin oils the way other soaps do.
Squeaky clean skin is actually irritated, dried out skin.
The lab technicians also mentioned you could actually do a litmus test on Dove.
As you may remember from high school science class, litmus paper changes color when it detects alkalinity.
The lab folks told Nancy and Janet that if you were to hold a piece of yellow litmus paper to Dove, it wouldn't change color.
But if you held the same litmus paper to other soaps, it would turn ink blue instantly because of the high alkalinity.
Janet and Nancy asked which other soaps had that kind of high alkalinity.
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