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Nostalgia time- can anyone remember?

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TheSilentStars · 17/11/2020 18:31

I'm talking about 1970s-1980s soap and talc style gift sets. This is driving me mad trying to remember...a particular brand, always around at Christmas...
It's not:
Woods of Windsor
Morny
Crabtree and Evelyn.

Any ideas on this vague conundrum of mine?

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AGeeseGoose · 18/11/2020 07:29

I remember in the 90s Boots did en ‘elements’ range of bubble baths - earth was green, air’s light blue, fire’s red, water’s was dark blue. I was obsessed with them!

50but17inside · 18/11/2020 07:33

Potter and Moore?

sashh · 18/11/2020 07:58

Roger & Gallet ?

allthewaterinthetap · 18/11/2020 10:08

Boots Natural Collection?

Mmmmdanone · 18/11/2020 16:20

Fenjal?

Bookridden · 18/11/2020 19:08

Blue Grass?

TheSilentStars · 18/11/2020 19:53

Nope. Maybe I've imagined it. Grin I have just bought some Fenjal and Bronnley off the back of this thread though!

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sparklefarts · 18/11/2020 21:36

Bronnely?
Didn't Avon do them too?

sparklefarts · 18/11/2020 21:38

Nesti Dante?

bellagogosdead · 18/11/2020 21:39

Bromley? I want one of them lemons on a stick Grin

sophandbridge · 18/11/2020 21:39

Coty
And for girls it was ballet shoes on rope

sparklefarts · 18/11/2020 21:42

Green fern?

I'm too Invested now. I need to know Grin

sparklefarts · 18/11/2020 21:44

Kate Greenaway?
Roger and gallet?

sparklefarts · 18/11/2020 21:46

Swanson and Swanson?

I'm stopping now

LutherRalph1 · 18/11/2020 21:48

Pears soap?

tions · 18/11/2020 21:51

Maybe if you describe the packaging then we can narrow it down - ie ruby colours with gold writing V country floral types. What shape was the soap and was it wrapped or plain?

ifancyagreencard · 18/11/2020 21:52

Anyone else remember Kiki talc? With the puffball applicator?

ifancyagreencard · 18/11/2020 21:52

*Kiku

PajamasnoDramas · 18/11/2020 21:53

Lentheric? Purveyors of such fragrant offerings as Panache, Mystique and nan’s fave (apparently) Tweed.

Chameleon2003 · 18/11/2020 21:54

Amber something

Iamacatslave · 18/11/2020 21:54

Lace perfume

jessstan1 · 18/11/2020 21:55

Badedas?

goose1964 · 18/11/2020 22:38

If they were sort of egg shaped it was Bronnley. I remember the smell of the lemon one.

MissClementine · 18/11/2020 22:50

Helena Rubenstein Apple Blossom, Fields French Pink?

TheSilentStars · 19/11/2020 06:34

@ifancyagreencard

Anyone else remember Kiki talc? With the puffball applicator?
God yes, there was Kiku, Babe and possibly one called Tigress or something? I so wanted one! Packaging- not posh, kind of like Morny, you'd get it in Boots rather than a department store. Different colours for different fragrances. A bubble bath, couple of bath cubes, a few little soaps and always talc. I think there was a lemon, a blue coloured one. I've been googling 1970s bath cubes for days!
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