Ben king owner of King Research and maker of Barbicide Salon Disinfectant thought he knew all the angles on uses for his product—conceptual art wasn’t one of them King was surprised and amused to receive a letter and photo from a cousin who had unexpectedly stumbled across an unusual display involving the product while on a trip to W. Palm Beach, Fla. There he met an artist whose favorite medium was glass. “By sheer coincidence” explains King’s cousin in the letter, ‘she showed us a satirical creation she had put together. She put a real Barbie doll inside a Barbicide disinfectant jar making it a geruine Barbicide; and she laughed beauty when she showed it to us having no idea that I was related to the manufacture.

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