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title: A Happy Healthy Child Bathes Daily With Soap
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-healthy-child-bathes-daily-with-soap-1965-1969/
description: 'Sheet SP-1017 is a three-panel drawn guide to bathing a child daily: clean water, two clean towels and soap; lather the whole body; rinse.'
section: Collection
---

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[![A Happy Healthy Child Bathes Daily With Soap, 1965 US poster: Sheet SP-1017 is a three-panel drawn guide to bathing a child](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/happy-healthy-child-bathes-daily-with-soap-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/happy-healthy-child-bathes-daily-with-soap-1965-1969.jpg)

# A Happy Healthy Child Bathes Daily With Soap

Sheet SP-1017 is a three-panel drawn guide to bathing a child daily: clean water, two clean towels and soap; lather the whole body; rinse, dry and wash the hair at least weekly. The closing block says a child washed daily avoids skin infections and grows fast, that water alone does not suffice, and ends 'Phải dùng xà-bông' (Soap must be used). The tell: a plain domestic scene and a warning about skin disease carry a single product-type instruction.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TRẺ KHỎE MẠNH NHỜ TẮM
MỖI NGÀY VỚI XÀ-BÔNG

Muốn tắm trẻ cho sạch cần phải có nước sạch, hai cái khăn sạch và xà-bông.

Chà xà-bông cho nổi bọt và xát vào khắp mình đứa trẻ.

Dùng nước sạch rửa sạch xà-bông trên mình đứa trẻ, rồi lau khô với một khăn lớn. Ít nhất mỗi tuần gội đầu chú bé một lần và nhớ rửa sạch xà-bông cũng lau khô tóc.

MỘT ĐỨA BÉ TẮM SẠCH MỖI NGÀY SẼ TRÁNH ĐƯỢC NHỮNG BỆNH NHIỄM-ĐỘC NGOÀI DA VÀ CHÓNG LỚN KHỎE MẠNH. CỨ DÙNG THẬT NHIỀU XÀ-BÔNG. NƯỚC KHÔNG, KHÔNG ĐỦ LÀM CHO ĐỨA TRẺ SẠCH CÙNG NGỪA BỆNH TẬT.

PHẢI DÙNG XÀ-BÔNG

[In drawings: XA BONG / XABONG / XABON]

SP-1017
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
HEALTHY CHILDREN THANKS TO BATHING
EVERY DAY WITH SOAP

To bathe a child clean, you need clean water, two clean towels and soap.

Rub the soap into a lather and rub it all over the child's body.

Use clean water to rinse the soap off the child's body, then dry with a large towel. At least once a week wash the boy's hair, and remember to rinse out the soap and dry the hair too.

A CHILD BATHED CLEAN EVERY DAY WILL AVOID INFECTIOUS SKIN DISEASES AND GROW UP QUICKLY AND HEALTHY. KEEP USING A GREAT DEAL OF SOAP. WATER ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE A CHILD CLEAN AND TO PREVENT DISEASE.

SOAP MUST BE USED

[In drawings: SOAP (box labels)]

SP-1017
```

Translation by FRAME from the Vietnamese text on the poster, literal and machine-assisted, not checked by a fluent reader; the claims are the poster's own and FRAME has not checked them against other records. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution.

[← Happy Days Return for the People of Long Huu Village](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-days-return-long-huu-1965-1969/) [Healthy Foodstuffs (Foods That Nourish the Body) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/healthy-foodstuffs-1965-1969/)

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