Do you remember

Does anyone remember Sunsilk Water Lily Leaf Shampoo? From what I remember, it was a green square of paper with a water lily shape cut into it, you put your hand through the shape, wet your hair and rubbed the paper on to your hair, the soap in the paper made a great lather. Don't think it sold very well!

You can get syrup of figs and Vitapointe in Superdrug and cod liver oil and malt in Holland and Barrett. Andrews is widely available. I saw Exlax in Bargain Buys.
I was given Parrishes food and Scott's emulsion as well as syrup of figs as a child. My mother used to take Beechams Pills.
In the early 50's Virol and rose hip syrup was given free from the baby clinic.
There was no washing up liquid or rubber gloves in the 30s and had to use soda crystals.
For chapped hands there was a balm called Melrose.

I may look for Vitapointe, thanks Bijou but I think I'll give 'Syruppy Figs', as it was known in our house, a miss!
Cod liver oil and malt - yum.

I can't remember the name of the tins of jelly-like stuff for chapped hands - obviously it didn't smell strongly because I remember DF using it after gardening.
Was it called Cremola?
He also used green soft soap and bay rum.

This thread brings back so many memories. Does anyone remember Sloan's linament, my mum used it for back ache, it smelt awful. You had to apply it sparingly or it burnt the skin! Also a toothpaste called Gibb' s dentifrice which came in a little tin, it looked a bit like pink shoe polish!

Bay rum, my mother used to masage it into her scalp and she did have lovely hair kept it's colour a lot longer than mine.
Mother and grandmother also had bottles of Sal Volatile in their handbags in case of feeling faint.
I think she used to take bile beans too, I dread to think what was in them.

Jalima I remember Cremola as being crystals that you put into water to make a kind of fizzy drink! Maybe we were using it for the wrong thing!

Anyone remember Green Goddess shampoo? It was advertised as being thicker than other shampoo and I remember the TV advert showed them dropping an "emerald " into it to demonstrate how thick it was.

I thought Cremola was a sort of custard,semolina pudding. It had a moon on the packet. My children loved it. Though perhaps I am mixing the name up with something else?

Cremola was an amazing product BBevan! Hand cream; soft drink and a custard pudding, all in one! Off to Google it - one of us is bound to have a better recollection!

I remember that water lily shampoo Meggieanne, don't know that it was that great tho. We used White Rain shampoo too. Do you remember Radio codliver oil & malt? It was disgusting. What about Cherry Red Linctus for coughs and that bitter chocolate covered in hundreds & thousands to stop you getting worms??? Knights Castile soap and Aladdin Pink paraffin for the oil stove.Being told to go outside and count how many sacks of coal the coalman delivered, in case he didn't give the full order and the chimney sweep telling you to watch the brush come out of the top of the chimney. Navy blue knickers with a pocket for your handkerchief (so you didn't have to tuck it up your knicker leg!)

Yes, you can also buy vitapointe at superdrug, online. It's only a couple of £.

Cremola was a dessert.Cremolia was a hand cream. Corona was fizzy pop.

Chewbacca I remember Cremola Foam, powder in a tin that made a sweet fizzy drink when mixed with water, is that what you meant?

I too loved Creamola foam. Raspberry was my favourite. My mother rarely bought it, as we money was very tight.. I have seen it recently in a retro sweet shop in Glasgow.

We had Lifebuoy soap, Dad washed his hair with it. Was bald quite early in life! I also used to get Ovaltine chocolate bars, they were lovely. A machine on the wall outside a local shop had them. Nowadays it would be vandalised sadly.

(I am ancient), I have a jar of Cremolia on the shelf above my kitchen sink. It lasts for ages and the smell is lovely. Mum used to use it. She also sucked Megazones, so strong, I couldn't get past the sugary bit. I think she rammed them onto the roof of her mouth, and let them gradually dissolve. I seem to remember little blackcurrant pastilles, in a tin, Hanbury's?

I remember water lily leaf shampoo and being on a picnic with our cousin's somewhere where we found real water lilies and rubbed the leaves on our hair expecting it to lather. (It didn't!). My favourite shampoo was Drene, I wish I could get it now.

We always had Nigroids (very strong licorice) as DF worked in dusty atmospheres and thought they were good for his chest. I still like them, haven't seen them for ages.

Cousins should not have had an apostrophe. The tablet put it in.

Thats it Grannyqueenie, Cremola Foam! I'd love to try that again.

My friend and I were discussing egg and lemon shampoo the other day
She had hidden some in a glass under her bed as a teen, as she wanted to wash her hair, and her sister found it and drank it!
How about horse oils? My mum would rub it into my legs when I had "growing pains"

I was just reading the forum about remembering things from long ago better than recent things.
It was mainly about words, but this thread has brought back so many memories of taste and smell. I just read the post about meggazones, and immediately had the taste in my mouth....and senna tea...and horlicks tablets...and the smell of friars balsam....all so vivid!

Back in the 1960s I used to use Breck shampoo. It was brilliant. Don't think you can still get it. My brother, already an adult when I was a child, started to lose his hair quite early and used something called Birch Sap Tonic which he swore was making his missing hair grow back (it wasn't). My mother said it would be cheaper for him to rub butter on his head. I never knew whether she was actually joking.

I'm sure someone must have mentioned Horlicks Tablets?

I am still using Knight's castile soap, I found it in the supermarket a while ago and bought a case of it, it is the only soap that doesn't irritate my skin.

I still get Imperial Leather with the little label on the cake of soap.