Vanilla - For Employees Use Only  

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This was a Vanilla product that was only for sale to employees within The Upjohn Company. Don Parfet told me that Dorothy Dalton, a daughter of W.E.Upjohn, used a lot of vanilla in her cooking but could not find a good quality source of it in Kalamazoo. Since The Upjohn Company was already using vanilla for flavoring in products like Kaopectate, the material was already in-house. It didn’t take much effort to formulate and bottle it, starting in 1936. It was 30% vanilla with a small amount of vanillin.  It was a popular product with employees because batches were made through the 1970s and 80s. It was discontinued in 1989. Other products made for employees-only were Hand Lotion and Aspirin Tablets 5gr.


             

      

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