Family finds century-old beauty products in kaunas apartment
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A family cleaning out an old storage room in central Kaunas, Lithuania, discovered a box containing nearly one-hundred-year-old cosmetic tubes.
The tubes belonged to Marija Nikolskiene, the great-grandmother of a woman named Viktorija, who ran a cosmetology practice and a cosmetics laboratory in Kaunas during the interwar period. Nikolskiene sold cosmetics popular with Hollywood stars to women in the city. The family’s find potentially adds to Lithuania’s cultural heritage.
Historian Julius Urbaitis discovered historical records that support the story of Nikolskiene’s ambition and business. Nikolskiene’s laboratory allowed her to create cosmetics independently, while her practice catered to a clientele of fashionable women. The discovered tubes and Urbaitis’s research combine to reveal a previously unknown aspect of Kaunas’s history during a period of growth and change. The artifacts are considered museum-worthy and offer a glimpse into the early days of the cosmetics industry in Lithuania.
