# Cookies on your face?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161 "2001-02-20T02:24:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161/1 "2001-02-20T02:24:13Z")

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When, why, and how did the (presumably) registered trademark HYDROX go from being a cookie to a skin cream? (The cookies are now called “Droxies”) AFAIK the products aren’t related - at least I don’t think the white stuff from the cookies is in the skin cream.

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**Author:** ![Shiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161/2 "2001-02-23T18:47:57Z")

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From US Airways in flight magazine _Attache_, Feb 2000 in an article titled ‘In The Dough’ by Rebecca Gray:

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> The Sunshine founders, hoping to create an image of goodness and purity, truncated two simple elements, hydrogen and oxygen, to form the word Hydrox. This ill-concieved name, unfortunately, didn’t work: When Sunshine sold out to Keebler in 1996, surveys indicated that even the most loyal Hydrox patron reacted negatively to the name. Keebler has now adopted a new name: Droxies.

Two unrelated products can share the same name though. The Zyban I sell is a horticultural fungicide. The Zyban one would take to help quit smoking is Wellbutrin.

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**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161/3 "2001-02-23T19:13:02Z")

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> The Sunshine founders, hoping to create an image of goodness and purity, truncated two simple elements, hydrogen and oxygen, to form the word Hydrox. This ill-concieved name, unfortunately, didn’t work: When Sunshine sold out to Keebler in 1996, surveys indicated that even the most loyal Hydrox patron reacted negatively to the name. Keebler has now adopted a new name: Droxies.  
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Well, they didn’t ask _me_).

**Hydrox** is a name for all that is good and noble in a sandwich cookie; the epitome of chocolate and cream.

**Droxie** sounds like something you’d call a whore in a 18th century novel.

Anyone who’d prefer the latter to the former is probably a “DoubleStuf” eater to begin with.

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**Author:** ![davesink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@davesink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davesink)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cookies-on-your-face/55161/4 "2001-02-23T19:16:09Z")

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> \*Originally posted by PlanMan \*  
> \*\*When, why, and how did the (presumably) registered trademark HYDROX go from being a cookie to a skin cream? (The cookies are now called “Droxies”) AFAIK the products aren’t related - at least I don’t think the white stuff from the cookies is in the skin cream. \*\*

Hey, that’s reminds me of the reason why I stopped eating Dove Bars…when I found out they were 98% cleansing cream.😉