Pond's Cold Cream - a childhood memory

Grandma had a little round cardboard box of rouge on her dressing table - Bourjois. It was the only make-up she used. I have no idea if she used moisturiser but she had a lovely soft skin.

I have a very small bottle of Californian Poppy, the first present my father gave my mother.

I used to get chilblains and had Snowfire. The Poor Clare Sisters who went barefoot inside also used Snowfire.

Diggingdoris - loved your message! By coincidence, my dear Mum was called Doris!! x

Think it was Yardley skin food . I remember my Mum used with a bee design on the lid

What was the product that used to have a moulded bee on the top, my mum used that all the time

You can still buy it in Savers and probably elsewhere. My nan’s lovely skin was all down to ponds cold cream, or so she claimed.

Eau de nil paint in the back kitchen. ( bluey/green )

Anyone remember the wooden boxes of whole crystalized fruits ? A Christmas treat along with the orange and lemon slices and figs.

The Newberry fruits are not the original ones but a modern take on them with flavours mixed together and very very disappointing. I bought some of the original type last year. I adored them and my daughter is also a fan. I used to get a box at Christmas as a child and nibble the jelly off first before popping the sugar shell with liquid centre in - heaven! The orange & lemon slices were a Christmas tradition too and it was my job to cut some into little wedges to decorate the trifle. Mum had a tiny bottle of Evening in Paris too which dad had bought her. L'aimant was her favourite perfume, seeing a bottle can reduce me to tears.

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The Newberry fruits they sell now are called Jewels; and yes, they have a solid centre. The fig sweets were Badgers Chinese Figs; we always had a box at Christmas, and I still miss them.

In 1973 I worked in the holidays at the Tobler Meltis factory which made and packed Newberry Fruits and the staff could buy a giant bag of misshapes for pennies. Wonderful! When I was pregnant I had a craving for Newberry Fruits and had to track them down to buy a box.

4711..... immediately brings back memories of my Nan and mum

My mother used Ponds products and so did I when I first went out to work. There was Melrose for rough hands to use after doing the washing up in hot soda water. When I first wore make up the mascara was solid in a little box and had be moistened. As well as Evening in Paris perfume there was Phil Nana and Poppy. You can still get 4711 on Amazon.

There could not have been much choice then, my mother used Ponds vanishing cream, 4711 cologne and Max Factor make up.

We also had Newberry fruits at christmas, I never liked them nor those orange and lemon jelly slices.

This is a lovely thread. My granny had beautiful skin and used Anne French Milk for cleansing.

Norman Hartnell In Love perfume! I wore that on my honeymoon.

When I was a teenager I used to wear Tramp perfume. I loved smell and the advert with the care free blonde riding a bike looking so cool. It was only recently when the same perfume was mentioned on a TV program naming disastrous marketing ideas when I realized the true meaning of tramp!

I've said this before about the Pond's Vanishing cream as dad used to tell mum to " put plenty on,lass " Mum used both.

My Mother wore so little makeup that it was hardly worth the effort; a tiny fluff of Max Factor 'Creme Puff' on her nose, from a compact, and a delicate application of Yardley's 'That Pink'; which was then blotted about three times and vanished without trace. She always felt very daring when 'made up'.
I don't know if either cosmetic is still around. I loved, and still do, Coty L'Aiment, which on a good day in a prevailing wind can be easily mistaken for Chanel Number 5 - which I am also addicted to. My Dad and OH also loved Newberry fruits, and my DD buys her Dad a box each Christmas.

My Mum had a round, white pottery jar of Yardley's cream with a pink lid embossed with (I think) a butterfly. It smelt gorgeous and I used to love sniffing her skin!

missdeke and jaylucy I think the hand cream was Cremolia. My mum used it all the time and I think the smell was because it had glycerine and rosewater in it. I know my sister and I used to lick it as it was so sweet - we survived!

jaylucy Was the hand cream Cremolia?

I use it regularly & Boots is always running out of it!

Oooh Twopence .... the smell of greasepaint!!

Oh I absolutely adored Newberry Fruits. I got quite excited to read here that they were still available but disappointed to read that they are selling something inferior under the same name.
Painter45, my mum always used Max Factor Creme Puff too but she moisturised with Nivea first. Her skin was lovely right until she died at age 99.