This will really date me...yes as a youngster I remember my mom using this on a glass catsup bottle.
We didn't have a refrigerator or icebox, before WWII. My job was to take the rolled clothes in the bushel basket to the cellar until the next day, which was Tues, as that was ironing day. Monday was always wash day. She used a washing machine outside in the summer on the back porch and moved inside in the winter. Lots of hard work, but still was best of times.