When I was a kid, at Halloween season you could buy wax lips and wax harmonicas. Yeah, harmonicas. They were right there at the candy counter with the Mallo Cups and the Chuckles. Year after year. And for some reason we bought them. Year after year. The harmonicas worked; you could play scales on them, even songs – but eventually you started chewing on them. I’m sure our parents were glad when we started chewing them ‘cause that killed the music. There was no flavor to the wax, but like beavers, we chewed them.
The wax lips were not as fun – you couldn’t play them. But we bought them as well. They were like a mouth guard on the outside of your mouth ‘til we chewed them up too. But the two items were mutually exclusive. You couldn’t play the harmonica when you had your lips in. Maybe that’s what killed the company…
I was reminded of these items recently when I was in Bath and Body Works and sampled their little mints. The taste reminded me of the harmonica/lip wax.
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