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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:
Hillingdon · 19/05/2015 14:30

My goodness, I remember the VS shampoo and that lovely smell

maudpringles · 19/05/2015 14:13

Ooh that Vidal Sassoon shampoo caused endless arguments in our house of 4 girls!!
Who had used all the shampoo???

Mm I can smell it now Smile

GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt · 19/05/2015 14:06

Wasn't Revlon Outrageous shampoo, was it?
This pinterest page has lots of nostalgia fodder www.pinterest.com/shelleyamber/vintage-beauty-ads/

mistymeanour · 17/05/2015 11:02

nokidshere I LOVED Flex - I had very long hair and couldn't stop sniffing it myself. I was also very fond when a kid of Woodleigh Green Apple Shampoo (though it stripped your hair)

Feminine · 17/05/2015 10:44

What about Linco beer?

In little sachets?

RochelleGoyle · 17/05/2015 10:39

You can still buy Flex if you look online.

grapejuicerocks · 17/05/2015 09:46

Dimension shampoo anyone? You didn't need to use conditioner...

sugarplumpfairy · 17/05/2015 02:31

I'm grieving for Flex! It was wonderful. They don't make 'em like they used to . . . .

Feminine · 17/05/2015 02:00

You can still buy finesse in the US.
It doesn't have the same 'old' smell unfortunately.

Toofewshoes · 17/05/2015 00:52

Not that I have been googling Finesse shampoo or anything on a Saturday night but I have found this. Brought back such memories.

MsAspreyDiamonds · 16/05/2015 23:55

Dimensions 2 in 1. Anybody remember this?

SirVixofVixHall · 16/05/2015 23:39

The brown bottle with the scent of cocktail cherries was Vidal Sassoon. It smelled of Almonds. i can smell it now! Someone up thread said coconut but it was almonds. Mmmm. I loved that shampoo.

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 16/05/2015 23:36

When I was about 8 I invented my own shampoo. It was made from a concoction of Alberto balsam, head and shoulders, brut shaving foam and Epsom salts. It was to be called silk wash and make me millionaire sigh

Behooven · 16/05/2015 23:26

This thread is from 2012 - I remember it from the first time!
Ah well, even zombies have to wash their hair Wink

BluebeardsSidekick · 16/05/2015 23:24

I'm going with Silverkrin. I may not be right about the name but I remember the shampoo. It smelt heavenly.

Shockers · 16/05/2015 23:21

I always buy lots of Flex when I'm in Spain. It is wonderful stuff!

senrensareta · 16/05/2015 23:18

Around 1978 I used to buy a Wella conditioner that was thick and pink in a clear cylindrical bottle. I have fine hair and his stuff was magical, made it all thick and glossy. As always it was discontinued and I have never found anything as good since

Only1scoop · 16/05/2015 23:12

Timotei

sanityisamyth · 16/05/2015 23:10

Flex?

MissBattleaxe · 16/05/2015 23:09

Are you thinking of Woodleigh Green Shampoo? It had a lovely appley smells.

loveblackcats · 16/05/2015 23:09

Was it Cream Silk? Who remembers Once shampoo, you had to shake it I recall

JoffreyBaratheonFirstofHisName · 16/05/2015 23:02

In the mid-late 70s, I favoured a Silvikrin with egg in it - remember it was this shiny, metallic almost yellow. My dad used to think it was hilarious.

In the 60s as a kid, my mum used Vosene on us and I can still remember that not entirely pleasant smell of it, with affection.

Sunsilk wasn't a brand I used. I can remember an apple one, but it wasn't the one mentioned upthread. I also had an apple perfume that came in a glass bottle shaped like an apple. Can't remember what it was called or who made it? I used to love Aqua Manda.

Chesntoots · 16/05/2015 22:13

I remember one in a brownish bottle that smelled like cocktail cherries. That may have been VO5 but I'm not sure...

ludovica · 16/05/2015 22:09

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Feminine · 16/05/2015 21:56

I know this is a zombie thread (as l posted on it a good few times...)
The shampoo for the 'over 40's' (during the 80?'s)was 'Empathy' by Johnson & Johnson.
I need some of that now. ;)

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