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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:
NotDead · 11/06/2013 22:21

Timotei def had ad with hair smelling.. once was layered and you had to shake.

Zhx3 · 11/06/2013 22:20

It was me who got the glory Grin.

Here it is again:

Sunsilk de Parfum

viagrafalls · 11/06/2013 22:19

Has anyone mentioned 'silvikirin'?

Fifilosttheplot · 11/06/2013 22:16

V05 did a shampoo and conditioner called "Apple Green" looked like snot in a bottle but you hair smelled lovely

Yes to bringing back "Flex" - we should all petition Revlon until we get it re-instated. I think Cindy Crawford used to advertise it

KenDoddsDadsDog · 11/06/2013 22:04

I loved that thread ! It was one of the most fun searches ever.

BreakerPup · 11/06/2013 22:03

Please disregard my last message as it was totally incorrect. Grin

BreakerPup · 11/06/2013 21:49

The shampoo you have been so been so fruitlessly searching for is called..........wait for it........''ONCE'' ! It was orange or sometimes green at the top and yellow at the bottom. Hope this has helped. Smile

RiffyWammal · 08/05/2013 10:24

Mmm, lovely eggy yellow delicious smelling Flex...

Circa 1985 I saved my pocket money and bought Vidal Sassoon shampoo, conditioner, hairspray and styling gel; it smelled fantastic (like coconuts) and my hair looked really shiny and held its style, which was a fetching mushroom cut shaved up the back. They came in tasteful brown bottles and I felt dead posh.

theodorakisses · 08/05/2013 07:57

The Linco Beer shampoo was lovely. We tried to drink it once which was not so nice.

BrokenBananaTantrum · 08/05/2013 06:43

The Body Shop Dewberry Shampoo?

Isityouorme · 08/05/2013 06:34

Timotei .... Beer shampoo??

AudrinaAdare · 07/05/2013 23:53

Oh hello again shampoo thread. I was the loon who emailed the museum of rare brands in the quest for an answer. I never did get a reply.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/05/2013 23:42

Oh, does anyone remember a very nice herbally shampoo back in the 1980s.
The advert was Jilly Cooper (novelist) writing that she stopped believing in secret ingrediants when she was "14 and my lacrosse socks fell out of my bra"

I bought a tiny trial bottle of the Chamomile- felt really 'adult' Blush

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/05/2013 23:39

There was one that was aimed at "Hair over 40" which is a bit Hmm because most hair falls out after 6-7 years. They mean the person over 40 not the hair.

Once- YY - the two layers

Woodleigh Green - I used to use that back in the day.
And Flex Grin

Tilly333 · 07/05/2013 23:33

Earth Born?

BaileyGAZ · 07/05/2013 23:14

I'm looking for a photo or something to remind me - there was a shampoo and conditioner back in the 80s called "Style" I believe, they were in grayish bottles. Smelled so good. Always looking for those, but as you can imagine, using "style" and "shampoo" in a Google search brings up a gazillion results. Does anyone remember 'Style'?

YouOldSlag · 06/02/2013 12:19

Sorry I can see that you do remember it and that this is an old thread. Sorry.

YouOldSlag · 06/02/2013 12:18

It was Sunsilk by the way. Clear bottle, light purple shampoo, pink or purple lid, very 80s label

YouOldSlag · 06/02/2013 12:15

There was a big thread about this before Christmas, it went nuts and we eventually tracked it down. It was a really big thread at the time, I can't believe none of you remember it!

CashmereHoodlum · 06/02/2013 12:13

I'm 40s and sitting here regretting my encyclopaedic knowledge of magazine adverts and hair products and wishing I had spent more time doing my homework. I can't remember anything from school.

HazeltheMcWitch · 06/02/2013 12:10

How old are you that remember this shampoo? I am 35, and thought that my knowledge of both shampoo and magazines was pretty good... but I don't remember this at all!

whiteflame · 06/02/2013 12:00

some kind of timotei? that came in a see through bottle.

CashmereHoodlum · 06/02/2013 11:16

There used to be one called "shampoo de parfum" around 1987. I never tried it but I remember looking at an advert and thinking what a silly name. I don't know who the manufacturer was and the advert was not as you described so it may not be the same one.

cubbie · 06/02/2013 11:04

Strangely, I don't remember this and I was an avid reader of J17, Jackie et al. I DO remember Woodleigh Green apple shampoo! Who remembers that??

I bought a bottle for 44p, I think, and it made me determined to grow my hair long enough to be able to smell the apples! I wouldn't use it till I had long hair! I was about 11, I think.

Silkience conditioner was also a revelation, I remember my friend and I going daft over it and begging my dad to buy it when he went to get the weekly shopping (he was a real "new man", way back then!) "The Science of silkening your hair.........."

I also remember one called Bristow's Deep Shine which I did think was very effective, as my 13 or 14 year old self.

CatchTheFox · 06/02/2013 11:00

I remember this! Gahhhh, before I even clicked on the link I thought 'I wonder if it's that perfumed shampoo in the lilac bottle'. Dammit, I'm at work so can't really have a good Google right now, but it's going to drive me mad.....

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