CLIPP, the cream that has softened Lebanese women's hands since 1960

An aluminum tube recognizable among a thousand. White, blue and yellow: three basic colors whose arrangement has barely changed in more than 60 years.A tube slipped into the purse of nearly every Lebanese woman, tucked into the drawers of television presenters, set out in the bathrooms of first ladies as well as those of the bourgeoisie, seamstresses and shopkeepers, and always within reach in the kits of manicurists. It can be found as easily in pharmacies as on supermarket shelves or at the neighborhood grocery store, for just $4 today. Last week's edition The story of Bonjus, the little pyramid that won over generations of Lebanese This is CLIPP. Five letters chosen almost at random that, in Lebanon, are enough to identify this hand and body care product created in 1960 by Jean and Asma Zeenni.A substance with a texture somewhere...