brushed their teeth with radium toothpaste, and wore radium cosmetics that gave their skin a bright, cheery glow. Mixed with ...

A conversation with his granny, who spent her childhood brushing her teeth with the radioactive toothpaste her father Siegfried manufactured, leads Joe to finally read his great-grandfather's nearly ...

There was a more personal reason to use Doramad radioactive toothpaste. As Mr. Dunthorne, a British novelist and poet, tells us in his memoir “Children of Radium,” his German-Jewish great ...

Out of this ignorance, some companies started selling radioactive products like soap, toothpaste, and — perhaps most famously — the energy drink called Radithor. Here's what Radithor did to ...

Children of Radium then is a triangulation between what Dunthorne finds in Siegfried’s memoir and what he learns from his own research. That radioactive toothpaste turns out to be a MacGuffin ...

The story of a Jewish chemist who lived with his wife and two children in Berlin and injected radium into his gums in his efforts to develop a radioactive toothpaste. The story of the family’s escape ...