Is there a toiletry you can no longer buy and miss?

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ronib

TCP!!!

You can still get traditional TCP - I’ve got some.

I've got some TCP in the cupboard. I love the smell and taste of it.

Desdemona

Another product I liked was a shampoo called LincoBeer, it was in a little plastic beer barrel. Made my hair super shiny.

Me too. It had a lovely smell to it

Drenes shampoo Beer shampoo, Harmony hair colouring Lots of the above also

I can remember the ads in Mirabelle magazine for Linc-o-Lin beer shampoo, as it was known before it changed its name. I used to love Silvikrin alpine herb shampoo and the advert on Radio Luxembourg where a girl asks her mate, “Alpine Herb? Who’s he?”

Im sure the last time i was in shop (about 500 years ago) i saw sachets of linco beer.
My mum used to do our hair with that, and rinse with rainwater

Sea Jade was the 1970s Yardley fragrance. I had to google it!

Avene Toning Lotion have changed their formula, but it's not nearly the same. Before you had to give it a bit of a shake since the lotion portion was heavier than the clear toner. I found it took the remainder of makeup off and left your skin feeling fresh. The new one not so much.

Galaxy

Nivea in shower moisturiser, it is about £50 now on amazon.
Sun moon and stars perfume.

Nooooo, tell me that's not true! I buy it half a dozen at a time when it's on special offer. I'm just finishing up my last bottle and was thinking I'll just have to pay full price if nobody has it on offer 🥲

Oh my god. Oh my god. I have just checked as it is ages since I looked. You can get a bumper pack on amazon works out at £6 per item.

Just checked out ebay, and its much the same sort of price.
I was quite tempted to try it myself, but not at those prices.
I've got a big body!
A couple of goes with that and it'll be finished.

4711. Where did it originate? Pretty hard to find nowadays.

I can almost smell it when I think of it and the song in the ad... 4..7...11......

WhenIwasyour age. I will keep looking. I phoned Nivea who confirmed it had been discontinued and suggested I buy cleansing milk which I found a bit odd.

Some of the above products can be occasionally picked up in shops such as B&M and Home Bargains. Coty L' Aimant, Astral to name a couple.

I'm definitely buying some 4711 for my holidays. The tissues in little sachets are so nice for travelling.

I used to like a face powder called Corn Silk.

Ooh yes!
Me and my mum both used that at one point.
They bought out a foundation, too, but i preferred the powder.
I'm sure I saw it in Savers a while back, but i may have only noticed because i was thinking "Well, it wasn't like that, before"

Shampoos!
I used something called Sta-Blonde, I think John Frieda does the nearest thing now.

But my favourite was a shampoo called DOP. It came in a very small and puffy sachet and I seem to remember the advert involved a gorgeous leggy lovely in a pale blue sports car? (We’re talking early 1970s here…,)

Miners musk perfume,it was in a little white bottle with pic,think flowers,on the front,loved it

Sea Jade was the 1970s Yardley fragrance. Yes! I loved that one. And I think they did another one called Khartoum? One perfume from the 70s that we all wore was Estee Lauder Youth Dew. Wore it on "big nights out" because it was expensive at the time.

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Witzend

ronib

TCP!!!

You can still get traditional TCP - I’ve got some.

I've got some TCP in the cupboard. I love the smell and taste of it.

My mum swore by TCP for just about anything going. I can't even recall all its uses, except for having to gargle it.

Yes, 4711.

At school we all wore Aqua Manda (orange) or Aqua Citra (lemon) perfume . If I remember rightly the bottles were brown with a plastic orange or lemon on top.

Was about to put 4711 but I see many have already . Reminds me of my grandma . So cool for this hot weather.

Yardley’s ‘Khadine’ range, in a purple sort of colour.

I bought the soap, talc and scent when I went into hospital to have our DD, (52 this year).

I bought some more for DS’s birth nearly 2 years later.

Still have a talcum powder tin in the garage, still the same smell, transports me back to long ago happy days.

Oil of Ulay! Loved the smell.

I remember DOP shampoo, a sort of silvery blue colour. You can still get 4711 cologne and tissues on Amazon.