Milk Spray Aids Sun Tan, 1938

In 1938, bathers at Willow Lake, near Glendale, California, have adopted mass-production methods to speed up the process of acquiring coveted coats of sun tan. They employ a motor-driven atomizer to apply a newly developed milk spray, which was said to protect the skin from unaccustomed exposure to the sun’s rays and to help prevent burning- and peeling.