Caswell-Massey was an apothecary shop in Newport, Rhode
Island in the early 1750’s – the first personal care product company in the New
World. It was founded by Dr. William Hunter, a Scottish anatomist and surgeon. In
addition to medicinal essential oils, Dr. Hunter concocted and sold hygiene products
and cosmetics. Dr. Hunter’s Castille soap kept Lewis and Clark clean during
their 1803-1806 expedition. Hunter twenty distinctly different colognes, giving
each his name and a sequential number. “Dr. Hunter's Cologne Number Six” was a
personal favorite of George Washington’s. Our first president sent a bottle to the
French aristocrat Marquis de Lafayette, in gratitude for his enormous help
during the American Revolutionary War. Caswell-Massey is still in business
today; its headquarters still in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Hunter's Cologne
Number Six is still in production, and has been worn by John Quincy Adams, John
F. Kennedy, George Gershwin, John Denver, and countless others.
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