Do you remember

My grandad used to use wintergreen ointment on his aches and pains. I can smell it now!

My mother used to scrub us down, including our hair, with Sunlight soap after we got dirty playing in the garden. Sometimes our hair was washed in green soft soap. No liquid shampoos in those days. I do remember the tins of dentifrice and bath cubes and bath salts.

Also that smelly wintergreen. Sanatagen "every picture tells a story"

Bath salts are back in, quite fashionable now!
I just bought a pack of Dead Sea Mineral bath salts

Wintergreen - yes I remember it now, I couldn't remember the name

Oh yes I remember those old perfume names. In fact you can still get evening in Paris, but it's now known as 'Doir de Paris'. Anyone remember 4711 fragrance?

That should be Soir Dr Paris. Blessed predictive text!

4711 used to come in a perfume stick too. It was cooling on your forehead.

How about smelling salts?
My mum used them for years.

I have had some 4711 Eau de Cologne in my dressing table drawer for ages. I can't even remember when I bought it and probably haven't used it since then, but I somehow can't bring myself to chuck it out.

I had 4711 given to me at Christmas, all done up in festive wrapping suitable to hang on the tree, it was from a friend who had just been to Cologne. It brought back memories of my DM who loved to have some on her dressing table.
Alongside it would be her bottle of Tweed which made me feel like sneezing!

When DM died in the 1980s I kept her smelling salts in my handbag for ages.

In the 1950s I remember a new shampoo called White Rain - in a sachet instead of a bottle.
Delving further back - banana or strawberry flavoured Punch and Judy toothpaste, a yellow or pink dry disc in a round tin.

Toni home perms, anyone?
Just to give it more 'body'

When home perms first came out I remember two middle aged sisters, cousins of DGM having a screaming row about which home perm was better, Toni or Amami!

Or which identical twin had the Toni?

My mum used to put bay rhum on my hair, and give it a half head perm
I looked like Leo Sayer!

I used to like all the Coty perfumes : L'Aimant and many others

My mother as well as Evening in Paris also used Californian Poppy and Phul Nana.
I used Toni perms when they first came out.

Reading through these posts, I've just remembered "Snow Fire" I used to rub it on my chilblains. I've just Googled it and you can still buy it.

My mum used to do everyone's, as well as her own.
She wasn't even a hairdresser!

It was "Twink" (I think that was the name) my mother used. The smell was horrendous.

Was there a Prom Home Perm, or am I misremembering?

Tweenie Twink - very curly, Prom, Pin-up, and eventually Style. Used them all, then afterwards I would have to put loads of Estolan conditioner on to try and tame it ?.
My mother maintained the frizzier it turned out, the longer it would last. Remember when I started colouring my hair I used Hiltone blonde.

Yes my mum used a perm on me when I was 11 but instead of the lovely waves on the box I ended up with a mousy brown afro! And the pong made my eyes water.

I remember Snowfire but we couldn't have that. My Dad made us pee into a chamber pot and then soak our feet or fingers in that! It actually worked and a recent to programme recommended it if you ever stand on a sea urchin! Does anyone ever get chilblanes now, I wonder?