Bain de Soleil

Last updated
Bain de Soleil l
Product type Sunscreen
OwnerBayer Healthcare LLC
CountryUnited States
Introduced1925;99 years ago (1925)
DiscontinuedDecember 2019 [1]
Website baindesoleil.com

Bain de Soleil was a brand of sunscreen [2] that was produced by Bayer. It was affiliated with the Coppertone brand. The name Bain de Soleil is French for "sun bathing." The brand used the slogan "Welcome to a place more colorful." In the 1970s and 1980s, the brand used the slogan (especially featured in television commercials) "Bain de Soleil, for the St. Tropez tan." The brand was discontinued in December 2019.

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Products

The brand was known for low-SPF products that were typically marketed to women seeking skin tanning.

The final product lineup included:

History

According to the website: [3]

In the 1920s, the famous, trend-setting Coco Chanel, sporting deeply sun-bronzed skin, turned tanning into a fashion statement. In 1925, capitalizing on this fashion trend, Monsieur Antonine of Paris developed an Orange Gelée dark tanning formula called "Antoine de Paris". The Orange Gelée formula continued to thrive in Europe into the 1940s when Lanvin, a New York based company introduced the silky sensuous gel in the United States as Antoine's Bain de Soleil...translated as Antoine's bath of the sun.

The Bain de Soleil brand transitioned from Procter & Gamble (P&G) to Pfizer in August 1995. [4] [5] The product recipes and certain pieces of manufacturing and packaging equipment were relocated from Hatboro, PA (P&G) to Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Group in Parsippany, New Jersey around October 1995. From November 1995 to 1999, the product was manufactured and packaged at the Pfizer CHCG 100 Jefferson Road, Parsippany, NJ site. During this time, the brand saw the largest portfolio enlargement, including self-tanning (sunless) and after-sun products. These products were all formulated at the same Pfizer site at the 400 Webro Road laboratories. Between 1995 and 1999, the following Bain de Soleil products were marketed:

Product development scientists at Pfizer CHCG were John A. Scott (group manager), Alice Scheiner (after sun and high-SPF products), Eric M. Stroud (sunless products), Judy Meyer, Andrew Ortega, and Mary Williams (packaging). Two innovations in 1,3-dihydroxyacetone stability were invented during this time. [6] [7] The entire brand was eventually divested on October 7, 1999, to Schering-Plough. [8]

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