Do you remember...

Yes I remember all of those. Vosene was the only shampoo in our house until I became a teenager and bought my own.

I loved (still love) the smell of Vosene.

I remember the little toys hidden in the cereal packets. Had to get your hand right down to the bottom of the Rice Krispies for the plastic submarine etc.

Also pink Euthymol toothpaste which came in a little round tin.

My mum used Vosene on me because I had dandruff. I'm not sure that it worked but it did smell reassuringly medicated! Do you remember the 'beer' shampoo in a little plastic barrel-shaped container. When I was a student a lot of us used it. If we got our hands on actual beer we sometimes used it as a rinse - and drank what was left.

Wild swan

I remember having that pink toothpaste in a tin.

My mother didn’t believe in excessive hair washing, and not at all at a certain time of the month! So she bought sachets when required!

I used to sneakily wash my hair with washing up liquid! Yuck!

Until a couple of years ago, We had a shop in our high street called Semi-Chem.
It wasn't a prescribing chemist but sold old stock and you'd find things you'd not seen for years, and cheap.
I bought a 6 pack of imperial leather soaps for £1. I'm sure they had vosene and jeyes fluid too.
I miss it!

Oh yes and we used to buy hair lacquer in tubes, cut the end off and pour it into a squeezy bottle to squib onto your bouffant! It made it as stiff as a board and you had to get it out with Borax!

wildswan16, are you sure you're not thinking of Gibb's Dentifrice, which came in a little round tin - red for one flavour of which I can still remember the taste but not the name, and blue for one minty one and green for the other? My father used Euthymol, but it came in a tube when I remember it (1950s onwards).

Sadly none of them had fluoride in, which is why so many of us have a mouthful of fillings!

Vosene yuck and we all shared one soap. What would the kids of today think about that. Mother made us bath in fairy was up liquid! Not sure why.

We used to get Euthymol powder in a tin in the 70s, you could get a tube too but I think the powder was cheaper.

I thought the beer shampoo was marvellous. You cld get it until quite recently tho not in those barrels. My father always had Wrights Coal Tar Soap ('Refreshing After Travel') the rest of us Palmolive I think.

I don’t know the name of the soap we used, but it was in a big red bar, when I was little I remember being bathed in the kitchen sink!

We had Vosene, and my mother used green tissue leaves she put over her middle finger to get a lather.I remember when I first went to the Bodach’s house after work, and he went over to the wee corner shop to buy a sachet of shampoo, even though there was a bottle of Vosene and a bottle of Corimist ( remember that?) in the bathroom. He was horrified at the idea he would dare to use his mother or stepfather’s shampoo!

Was the big red bar of soap Lifebuoy? Was that the one that said “ No to B.O.”?

I can’t remember chaffinch, but I think they came in a pack of two, and were really too big for small hands

In our house we only had powder shampoo by Vaseline, which came in individual paper sachets. Wish I could get it now to avoid using plastic bottles.
I also remember a tinned toothpaste, but think it was Gibbs, and later Euthymol in a tube.
Also how could I forget the Izal medicated toilet paper? We were posh so bought it interleaved in a flat pack for our dispenser.

What about Sunlight soap for washing clothes

We had I izal loo roll as well! Awful stuff! And we didn’t have a posh dispenser!

My auntie worked at the Izal factory at Chapeltown near Sheffield, so we got a lot of our Izal paper for free, it was horrible!

'Friday night's Amami night'.
I never knew what Amami was! Shampoo?

We progressed to Izal when we eventually had a bathroom built. Before that it was newspaper on a nail in our horrible outside toilet.

Was Armani setting lotion? Friday night was always hair wash and bath night when I was a child. Hair dried sitting by the fire with the radio on, usually a music programme with the Palm Court Orchestra- we didn’t have a tv. Happy days. We used Pears soap which smelt lovely but got really soft in the soap dish, vosene shampoo and Izal in a box. Mum used to use dry shampoo sometimes can’t remember the name.

KatyK, you was well posh if you had the luxury of a nail!
Washed the dishes (pots to us northerners) in Daz or Omo - no rinsing; our hair was washed with soap during the weekly bath, but mum occasionally bought herself a sachet of Silvikrin shampoo.

Oh yes grannyactivist, silvikrin! I’ve been trying to think of that!

Before the summer term began we would always have a new pair of Clark's sandals. Brown leather with a buckle and a variety of cut out patterns on the front. Always had to last us until the brown lace-ups came out for winter.