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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:
youngestisapyscho · 16/05/2015 21:55

I remember Flex... Was it made by Revlon? Smelled lovely.

Roseforarose · 16/05/2015 21:49

I remember a lovely shampoo called silverkrin. It smelt divine.

HappenstanceMarmite · 16/05/2015 21:48

I can smell that gorgeous FLEX now!

Who remembers
"Alberto VO5 keeps your hair alive and makes it shiny, shiny, shiny like an apple" Grin

Whatutalkinboutwillis · 16/05/2015 21:41

I bought flex yesterday in one of the cheap chemist chains

GeorgiePorgie1972 · 16/05/2015 21:09

It was called Sunsilk du Parfum!! Purple in colour and smelt gorgeous. They didn't make a conditioner which you could use with it. It must have been ca. 1987 as I was still at secondary school when I used it to go to the disco! Those were the days....

ProudAS · 05/07/2013 06:26

Palmolive

pathfinder1952 · 05/07/2013 02:26

Answered my own question: it was Sunsilk.

pathfinder1952 · 05/07/2013 02:25

I remember Woodleigh Green for its wonderful apple-y smell. I had long blond hair then; I'm bald now. It was probably 50% industrial waste and largely responsible for my hair loss but I can still recall that aroma... And does anyone know the shampoo that was advertised on TV with the lovely tune (more than a mere "jingle") called "The Girl with the Sun in her Hair"?

frangipan · 12/06/2013 20:09

I am a thicko, sorry!

frangipan · 12/06/2013 20:06

Supersoft 'Once'? Not sure if that even existed or whether i have made it up but for some reason. It just popped to mind Grin

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 12/06/2013 19:00

Oh god, I panicked for s second then that it was happening again! Grin

Feminine · 12/06/2013 18:57

Yep Mumzy. I worked in a pharmacy in that year ...I remember it from the shelves! :)

Mumzy · 12/06/2013 18:46

I had a bottle of shampoo De parfum during first year at university so must have been out circa 1987

Blueandwhitelover · 12/06/2013 16:25

I don't remember this one but I do remember Woodleigh Green apple shampoo-does anyone else?
Bright green bottles that stank of apple-how I wanted one but I only ever was allowed vosene :-(

Feminine · 12/06/2013 10:30

Right at the start of this thread I said it was SUNSILK!

I have a really good memory for facts like this! Grin

QuintessentialOldDear · 12/06/2013 09:49

Alberto

iatetheeasterbunny · 12/06/2013 09:48

Don't know if the one I found is the one OP is thinking of but it's the one I remember. Awwww it smelt lovely. I tried the henna one but went back to my old purple favourite. I remember the apple stuff too - hope I never actually got any in my mouth because it honked to high heavens of apples! What the hell was in it?? Bright green too. What with that and the free make up on the cover of Jackie, I must have been the poster girl for teenage carcinogens.....

olgaga · 12/06/2013 02:05

Sunsilk I reckon. I'm sure they did a purple one for "straight" hair.

My favourite around that time was Linco Beer Shampoo. Came in a tasteful beige barrel-shaped plastic bottle with a dark brown screw top lid.

And Henara - for a daring tint/shine. Does anyone else remember henna powder which had to be mixed with water before going on the hair?

The only alternative then was permanent very dark or orange dyes which stank the house out and stained your forehead for about 10 days.

I'm sure that hair dye prompted the fashion for the hairline fringe.

PearlieQueen · 12/06/2013 01:45

You can sometimes find small bottles of Flex shampoo in Poundland. Never the conditioner though. And it doesn't smell quite the same as it used to!

saulaboutme · 11/06/2013 23:51

Omg zhx3 that's it! It smelled gorgeous! Well done

saulaboutme · 11/06/2013 23:48

Yes I remember it. It was a V05 perfume shampoo. I loved it but it really dried my scalp.
The smell was gorgeous!

iatetheeasterbunny · 11/06/2013 23:32

Pffft link didn't work did it..... Not sure how to do it on my phone. Hopefully someone cleverer than me will come along and do it for me Grin

iatetheeasterbunny · 11/06/2013 23:28

Not sure if the link will work but it's on this page. It's the V05 one! I used it every day - can't believe how excited I am finding it!Grin I can still remember the smell.....

www2.tv-ark.org.uk/adverts/v.html

Haggischucker · 11/06/2013 23:26

I loved that shampoo and used to use it all the time, was amazing! Just tried searching on eBay on the off chance there was some for sale, none! I wonder if sunsilk can be convinced to re-start production?!

mamij · 11/06/2013 22:23

Timotei? But don't remember it having a see-through bottle. I remember flowers in the adverts - very outdoorsy feel.

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