Penaten

JOHNSON Cream is a skin and wound protection cream. It is sold in a round tin, on a yellow sun on a blue background with a shepherd and a dog is shown.

Invention

Invented by the Penates cream the chemist Max Giant ( † 1943) in 1904 in Honnef (now Bad Honnef ). Wool grease and zinc oxide formed the basis for the cream. Basically, it is thus a form of zinc ointment, which is scented with light lemon flavor. On September 17, 1904, he reported to the cream at the Reich Patent Office in Berlin.

The name is an idea of Riese's wife Elizabeth (nee Knapp): She called the cream according to the household gods, the Roman gods protection for households.

Production Development

Initially produced giant 10,000 doses per month. He built 1908 in Bad Honnef district Rhöndorf on a factory and extended the production. In 1939, we produced approximately 500,000 doses per month. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the factory was destroyed. Then built ream sons Max and Alfred the company again.

In 1986, the U.S. company Johnson & Johnson company. He shifted the end of 2000 the production of the Penates cream to Italy and France, the original location Bad Honnef was closed parts of the premises continue to be used as offices of Johnson & Johnson.

The product line now includes the whole child care range from powder to baby oil, also soap and shampoos.