The company made just under $2 million in sales last year and projects $4.5 million to $5 million this year, all with a product ranging in price from $3.99 for a 1-ounce tub to $24.99 for a 1-pound jar. In July 2003, with major buyers lining up for Butt Paste, manufacturing was switched to New Orleans.īutt Paste is stocked nationwide by Wal-Mart and Target stores, and Walgreen’s will be adding the product this summer, Boudreaux said.īoudreaux’s privately held company – Boudreaux’s Family Pharmacy d b a Boudreaux’s Butt Paste – has only three employees, the inventor included.
“She said she was going down to George Boudreaux’s store to have him whip up some of that butt paste,” Boudreaux said.Īfter selling his pharmacy in 1994, Boudreaux began marketing his product widely, with manufacturing in Alabama.
Terral, the story goes, offered to write her a prescription. The product went nameless for several years until a woman took her baby, who had a bad diaper rash, to see Covington pediatrician Buddy Terral.
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It certainly wouldn’t have created waves in auto-racing circles, as Butt Paste has managed to do with its logo – a grinning baby covered by a blanket – adorning the car of NASCAR driver Kim Crosby with the product’s full name across the rear bumper.īoudreaux has a serious product – marketing techniques aside – in a diaper-rash ointment that he began mixing in his Covington pharmacy in the 1970s, much to the delight of mothers who came from as far as New Orleans to buy it. “Would you be talking to me if it was called George’s Diaper Cream?” Boudreaux recently asked a reporter.Īnd a paste with any other name probably wouldn’t have gotten attention from Oprah Winfrey, ESPN and Jay Leno. – Retired Louisiana pharmacist George Boudreaux hasn’t needed Madison Avenue pitchmen to get the word out about his concoction to treat diaper rash.
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