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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?!!!

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Dawndonna · 06/02/2013 10:22

Alberto Balsam?

notsofrownieface · 06/02/2013 09:56

They found it, but it was a chat thread so its gone. I can't remember what is was though.

Angie44442 · 06/02/2013 09:14

This has also been driving me round the bend for years!! I thought I must have imagined that it ever existed!

It was definitely purple and had au parfum in the title. I too have written to manufacturers with no luck....I wonder if it was in a scratch and sniff advert?? Has anyone got any more on this - I wondered if it was sunsilk, it's definitely not the others!!!

nokidshere · 06/11/2012 20:08

I have no idea what you are looking for but I LOVED Flex - fantastic stuff and smelled wonderful! I wish I could still get some now.

Mosschopz · 06/11/2012 20:06

Silverkrin?

diddl · 06/11/2012 20:05

Art-Once?

Sameageaskylie · 06/11/2012 20:04

Was it this? gee your hair smells terrific

Greypuddle · 06/11/2012 20:03

I remember! I think I even bought it once! And I STILL can't remember its name. Yes, purple bottle, definitely. Will have a think. The smell wasn't even anything that special...

IfYouSeeMeSayHello · 06/11/2012 20:01

Gloss Corimist?? Has to be.

Fond memories of Silkience here.

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wildstrawberryplace · 06/11/2012 19:37

It wasn't Wella I don't think and I'm sure it wasn't Bristows.

Jins · 06/11/2012 18:32

Most likely to be either Wella or Bristows I'd think

fluffyraggies · 06/11/2012 17:51

OMG! Flex!!!!

I luuuuurved the smell of that. AND IQ, does anyone remember that one? A really thick conditioner.

The thing i would most dearly love to get my mitts on again is the perfume 'Sex Appeal' by Jovin. Bright pink packaging. You can still get the guys version but the ladies? Nope :( Really trashy looking, but it smelled bloody lovely.

i used to pull every time i went out wearing it

ArtVandelay · 06/11/2012 17:42

Which was the one that was two different colours and you had to shake it to mix before you used it? Me and my friends were mad about that one.

cumfy · 06/11/2012 16:36

You are not alone!

I've been searching in vain for years for:
Bodyshop Jojoba Oil Conditioning Shampoo circa 1997.

Not a dickie bird.

Feminine · 06/11/2012 16:22

I have done so much googling.

I worked in a pharmacy in the late 80's , I'm trying to picture the shampoo shelf!

Feminine · 06/11/2012 16:21

More 80's than 90's right?

Its bugging me now too Grin

Magicmayhem · 06/11/2012 16:21

was it silkiance... that smelt lovely

hk78 · 06/11/2012 16:19

It wasn't Dimension.

It wasn't pink, it was more of a light purple.

God It's driving me mad!

I've even emailed Proctor and Gamble (i know!) and they have answered saying they have never heard of it. But we can't all be imagining it can we?!

AudrinaAflame · 06/11/2012 15:52

Yes, and marketed as being magical so stars or something on the bottle. I knew I'd regret throwing out those J17 magazines!

Morgansports · 06/11/2012 15:48

Thanks Fem, most of us who remember it agree it was a clear bottle full of lilac/purple coloured gel like shampoo. Possibly had the word Parfum or something similar in the name. Wish we could find the ad!

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Feminine · 06/11/2012 14:58

I still think it was a variant of SUNSILK.

In a pink bottle.

Morgansports · 06/11/2012 12:51

HoobleDooble, I don't remember the scratch 'n sniff ads, but you might be on to something ...

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