


Tricia Bedworth All posts by this member | 1 of 59 Tue 24th Jan 2012 9:37pm Member: Joined Jun 2011 Total posts:541 Mayjan recently reminded me about the Buttermilk soap that we were given when we went to the slipper baths in Coronation Road. This made me think of the toiletries we used in the 40s and early 50s. At home we used green Palmolive soap and Pears soap. At school I remember we had green or yellow soap that was cut up into squares. Who can remember how the edges and corners hurt your hands when it was newly cut? I also recall Vaseline powder shampoo - you had to dilute the powder in warm water before putting in on your hair to make a lather. (When mum washed my hair she used to put vinegar in the final rinse water to make my hair shine, it worked I had shinny hair, but I must have smelt awful. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 59 Tue 24th Jan 2012 10:15pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 Hi Tricia, Great topic ![]() ![]() |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 3 of 59 Tue 24th Jan 2012 11:42pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 Hi Tricia, Yes, I remember the Ponds Vanishing cream, although it was still the same old face in the mornings. Also the
round Gibbs toothpaste as a child. In the 60's - if I could afford it - I used to like lilly of the valley perfume, by Yardley I
think, but another one was Gin Fizz in a tall bottle and I have forgotten the trade name for that one. I think it was during
the 60's a lot of these newer perfumes became more popular. Now, my husband buys me Chanel No. 5 so I have to try
and make it last. That's one good thing about getting older (well for me at least) you can afford the finer things in life.
Izal - were they the little squares in boxes you had to pull out like tissues ?
Bye Tricia.......... ![]() |
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berost Gosport All posts by this member | 4 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 6:31am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:3 This is indeed a great topic and probably that will lure a lot of people right in. You should be able to reach out through a lot of people that are going to be interested as well. I will be forwarding this to a friend who is up for it, and big at that as well. |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 5 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 8:15am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 Hello all ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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mayjan Green Lane,Coventry All posts by this member | 6 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 10:15am Member: Joined Oct 2010 Total posts:254 I remember my Mum having the little bottle of Evening Paris on her dressing table. She never wore much make up just a touch of loose powder and some Bourguois Rouge which came in a small round blue box. My Dad always used Brylcreme,Mum would always have a cover on the back of his chair to catch the grease,she would remove it and wash it every Monday wash day. I don't recall the shampoo you mention Tricia but I do recall Amami shampoo and hair setting lotion,also Mum got Vosene when we had dandruff. Those home perm kits they ponged something awful,how we suffered to be beautiful,there was Twink and Toni both smelt horrid. Sleeping in those awful prickly hair rollers was murder,must have been mad. The Gibbs Dentrifice I knew a girl that liked the taste of it and she would dip her finger in the tin and eat it. There was also Pepsodent and Gleem in tubes that came along later. I used a lot of Goya perfumes, June and Black Rose were two of them,also the Coty L,Aimant creamy skin perfume in a little black bottle which you can still get. The mascara block with a little brush we would spit on and then rub across the surface to put on our lashes. My Mum used a green soap for rubbing on the shirt collars can,t remember the name,we had Lifebuoy soap,Nights Castille,Lux and my Dad liked Coal Tar soap. ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 7 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 11:37am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 Hi to you Mayjan. I still have several Quote "There was also Pepsodent and Gleem in tubes". I keep my small files and modelling tools in Pepsodent tubes. Gosh, Vosene. Just called out Vosene to Pam & her reply was "What a pong". I love this. Why have we got old??? Coty L,Aimant as you say is sold in the market. Pam still has that for when she has been swimming. ![]() |
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Rugby New Jersey, USA All posts by this member | 8 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 1:41pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:20 Nice one Tricia! Still use Pond's, remember Fairy soap, carbolic soap (to kill germs?), Veet (stinky), Drene shampoo, egg shampoo(nasty looking) anything by Yardley, Max Factor pancake makeup (itchy and soon discarded),Nivea, hair lacquer, nail polish remover which smelled like pear drops and Gordon Moore's cosmetic toothpaste, which turned one's lips pink...liberal amounts used at lunch time would land us on the mat outside the headmistress's door! |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 9 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 1:45pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 I recall the big red cross on a green background wrappers of Izal. Probably to remind you about the dangers of using it!! ![]() ![]() |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 1:45pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 On 25th Jan 2012 1:41pm, Rugby said:
... nail polish remover which smelled like pear drops and Gordon Moore's cosmetic toothpaste, which turned one's lips pink...liberal amounts used at lunch time would land us on the mat outside the headmistress's door!
...for sniffing the nail polish remover or using the toothpaste? ![]() ![]() |
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Rugby New Jersey, USA All posts by this member | 11 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 2:39pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:20
Guess!!!! |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 12 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 3:54pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3477 I think when they brought out 'Brut' toiletries for men, it was so popular all men began to smell the same, and it was a good present to get under the Christmas tree.
What about the tanning lotions for the girls. I recall one girl turning up for work one morning looking all streaky. Then of course came 'Man Tan' Oh what a laugh !! |
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Tricia Bedworth All posts by this member Thread starter | 13 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 4:40pm Member: Joined Jun 2011 Total posts:541 On 25th Jan 2012 8:15am, PhilipInCoventry said:
Pam & I use Pears soap now. I remember as a boy saving the vouchers that came with the soap & then sending away for the 'Pears Encyclopaedia'.....
Message for Pam - What memories you have brought back I had completely forgotten Desert Flower toiletries, when I think about them now I can remember the smell. With regard to the newspaper on a nail on the back of the door in the outside loo, I remember it well. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Tricia Bedworth All posts by this member Thread starter | 14 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 4:49pm Member: Joined Jun 2011 Total posts:541 On 25th Jan 2012 10:15am, mayjan said:
My Mum used a green soap for rubbing on the shirt collars can't remember the name....
Jan, I think the green soap your mum used for cleaning shirt collars may have been Fairy. You could also get Sunlight (or maybe it was Sunbright)household soap which was yellow. I had both a Twink and Toni home perm, the smell of the lotion was awful and the little home perm curlers used to hurt your head, when I complained dad used to say 'you have to suffer to be beautiful'....the pain didn't work for me! ![]() |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 15 of 59 Wed 25th Jan 2012 6:00pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4235 On 25th Jan 2012 4:40pm, tricia said:
Message for Pam - What memories you have brought back I had completely forgotten Desert Flower toiletries, when I think about them now I can remember the smell..... Philip did you use Old Spice?
Hi Tricia. ![]() ![]() |
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