{"id":4104,"date":"2016-06-09T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2016-05-27T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:14:31","slug":"pritt-sticks-lipstick-provenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/pritt-sticks-lipstick-provenance","title":{"rendered":"Pritt Stick&#8217;s Lipstick Provenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pritt-stick-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"pritt-stick\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pritt-stick.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/pritt-stick-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that a young woman applying her lipstick was the inspiration behind the invention of the <a href=\"\/desktop-essentials\/adhesives-glues\/glue-sticks\/l-561\" target=\"_blank\">Pritt Stick<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1967, Dr Wolfgang Dierichs was on a business trip for his employer, the German glue manufacturer Henkel, and was on board an aeroplane.<\/p>\n<p>He looked across the aisle and as he watched a lady applying her make-up with great care, he focused on the twistable tube of lipstick in her hand.<\/p>\n<p>The proverbial light bulb went on in Dierich\u2019s head as he thought how easy it would be to apply glue in the form of a stick &#8211; and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p>The Pritt Stick came to market a couple of years later and quickly became a staple office product, thanks to its clean and convenient form.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery woman has never been named, and was probably unaware of how she had inspired a legendary innovation.<\/p>\n<p>But in four decades following the product\u2019s launch, Henkel manufactured 2.5 billion Pritt Sticks in the UK alone &#8211; enough to leave a trail of adhesive from the Earth to Mars and back again.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s astronomical success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that a young woman applying her lipstick was the inspiration behind the invention of the Pritt Stick? 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