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To ask you to try to remember a shampoo from the 80s/90s

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Morgansports · 06/11/2012 10:42

I realise this is tenuous and doesn't really belong on this thread but posting here for extra traffic.

There is a 300+ posts thread running on Chat at the moment in which the OP is asking us to remember the name/brand/variety of a shampoo that was sold in late 80s/early 90's.

We think it was Sunsilk/VO5, that kind of brand. It was a see through bottle and the shampoo was lilac/purple. The whole pont of the shampoo was that it made your hair smell great and have a lasting fragrance. The ads that ran in Just 17/ Jackie magazine for it showed a boy sniffing a girl's hair at a party. I seem to remember them being black and white line drawing/cartoon type ads, not colour photographic. Same sort of style as the ads used to be for Compound W, if that means anything to you.

So who has got a secret stash of Just 17's from that period and could have a whizz through.

Please put us out of our misery someone. What was it called?!!!

OP posts:
LadyMayoGoodway · 26/01/2021 21:52

Flex!!! Bloody hell. There was a very odd trend for shaving your legs with Flex conditioner at my school.

Sorry no idea I loved Just 17, Miz etc. And I don’t remember it I’m afraid.

Sbowiegirl · 26/01/2021 21:28

Timotei? Vosene?

Spidey66 · 26/01/2021 21:18

Ooh sorry,zombie thread

Spidey66 · 26/01/2021 21:18

Can't remember the shampoo you're talking of...do remember Flex though.

Does anyone remember a shampoo, it was 2 layers, there was a bottom coloured layer then a clear top layer, which was like a softener and you had to shake the bottle?

Therunecaster · 26/01/2021 20:10

Another zombie

Maskcrusader · 26/01/2021 18:48

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SleepyGirl81 · 19/11/2018 09:04

Can remember some Sunsilk shampoo and Head & Shoulders stuff.

Cheetahsmonk63 · 28/10/2015 09:06

I remember Lemon Up, Body On Tap & the Lenvie scented shampoos that I LOVED! man they had Giorgio, Obsession..all the 80s perfumes that were very popular back then, I soooo wish someone would bring it back! How hard can it be if Giorgio, Red & Obsession are STILL on the market?

SmilingHappyBeaver · 20/05/2015 20:11

Timotei?

Feminine · 20/05/2015 19:18

I had some too girl
I remember being so excited that my hair would smell of perfume
I was only 16 though....

Girlwhowearsglasses · 20/05/2015 19:07

It was called Shampoo De Parfum.

I remember the sample in the magazine. I can remember the smell too.

FlabulousChix · 20/05/2015 18:58

Vosene

Feminine · 20/05/2015 18:20

The answer to the original question was discovered ages ago.
It was sunsilk. ;) :)

ErrolTheDragon · 20/05/2015 16:51

I'm not surprised this thread has re-emerged a couple of times - the scents of shampoo is Proustian. Grin
Mmm the almondy VS - that was my posh teenage shampoo. As a student I switched allegiance to the pearly yellow camomole Henara shampoo, which was followed by a similar Jojoba one.

Flex was overpoweringly scented but IIRC was good for volume.

limitedperiodonly · 20/05/2015 16:39

It wasn't gilbert but I'd definitely try that one.

Mine was in a dark chocolate brown plastic bottle of the same shape. It was white and gloopy. It smelled of marzipan and must have leaned towards the greasy range because that's all I used to use.

Laura0806 · 20/05/2015 16:36

Timotei shampoo was the one I remember

SirVixofVixHall · 20/05/2015 14:22

I think it was Alberto, now I mull over it.

SirVixofVixHall · 20/05/2015 14:21

As a child I liked the Apple shampoo that came in different apple scents for different hair types, so there was green apple for oily hair, Yellow for dry, and red for normal. They were the colours of the apples and had subtly different apple scents. I can't remember who made them, but it was a big shampoo brand. (mid 70s).

trixymalixy · 19/05/2015 17:54

I bought flex last time I was in Spain. Love the smell of it!

GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt · 19/05/2015 17:24

www.amazon.com/Sassoon-Cherry-Almond-Classic-Shampoo/dp/B00OP24E7E not this one, limited?

limitedperiodonly · 19/05/2015 15:32

There was also a slightly more subtle shampoo by Vidal Sassoon that smelled of marzipan and came in a brown bottle.

Not that subtle because it was white and glistening and came in a brown bottle.

Feminine · 19/05/2015 15:32

:)

Feminine · 19/05/2015 15:31

It was sunsilk Gilbert

limitedperiodonly · 19/05/2015 15:29

I know this a zombie thread and I probably posted on it originally to say Flex was the ultimate in shampoo smells.

It was powerful enough to overcome indoor smoking.

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