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Playtex is a brand of women's products with the slogan Making Your Life Better Everyday. Playtex manufactures baby items, feminine hygiene, and lingerie.

The brand originally specialized in underwear and in particular bras and girdles. Playtex is particularly noted for:

  • A focus on comfortable girdles:
    • The 18 hour girdle and its coordinating range.
    • The I can't believe it's a girdle range.
  • Innovation in bra design:
    • The introduction of the cross your heart design, now with many imitators.

International Playtex, Inc. was a division of Norton Simon, Inc. and then in 1983, Esmark purchased Norton Simon and then Beatrice Foods in 1984 purchased Esmark. In December 1986, a group of Company executives, together with Drexel Burnham Lambert, bought International Playtex, Inc. in a leveraged buyout and named the newly private organization Playtex Holdings. Playtex included such brands as MaxFactor, Playtex Living Gloves, Playtex Products, Almay and Jhirmack. In 1992, the Playtex women's apparel brands were sold to Sara Lee.

Playtex Products, Inc., a publicly traded company, continues to use the Playtex brand name on feminine hygiene, infant care, and rubber gloves, while owning other brands not using the Playtex name, such as the Banana Boat® and Hawaiian Tropic brands of sunscreen and Wet Ones premoistened disposable wipes. In 2006 Sara Lee spun off its clothing sector into HanesBrands Inc., which now runs the Playtex apparel business, as well as other clothing brands such as Hanes and Champion.

In the 1960s Playtex had a contract with NASA to produce their space suits.


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