Remember school soap from the 80s..?

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It was white and when it dried up it had massive cracks form.

I just got a random whiff of it and now I want some.

Does anyone know where I can buy 80s school soap from?

I wouldn't get the toilet paper to go with it 😖🔥😵

It doubled as tracing paper, though. Dual functionality. Very impressive.

Yes, but wtf was that paper all about?? Why?? I think you can buy it still in supermarkets. What is the reasoning?

No clue about the soap….

We had pink carbolic soap

The soap in the 90s was rather like that, too. Funnily enough we had new soap in at work that, once whiffed, had taken me waaaay back.

I bought a basics bar of soap out of Sainsbury’s for around 40p or something and that was similar to the stuff they had in our outdoor toilets at primary school
Along with the tracing paper loo roll

Thought this was going to be a thread about Grange Hill!

I remember that. It had the word Carbolic stamped into the soap bar

Think we might have had yellow soap. I know what you mean about the smell. You felt properly stripped of all germs, until you touched the linen roller towel!

Izal medicated toilet tissue. Crunchy and bugger all use. We also had yellow soap on a metal bar that stuck out of the wall, I think that was coal tar soap and later we had gloopy, pink liquid soap that had the consistency of snot. Hand drying was one of the rolling fabric things that you had to hit and pull.

Would the white soap be carbolic? Is that still legal?

Me too. This wasn't what I expected 😂

On French exchanges, their schools had yellow soap moulded onto a metal bar attached to the wall too, but it smelt of lemons.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention the loo roll. You have not disappointed me with the first comment! 😂

Honestly - was that stuff ever actually supposed to mop anything up?! Awful. I have baking paper I use in the kitchen that is more absorbent than that stuff!

The reason the soap was probably cracked was that no bugger used it and it just dried out through lack of use!

Imperial leather bars used to crack like that if they weren't used. Or it might have been Fairy? I think that was white, whereas Imperial Leather was more beige.

Or, sometimes, frying. Vom.

So did we 🤮

In Infants we had wall mounted glass containers that you flipped upside down to dispense a honey coloured liquid soap that made the whole school smell! Not unpleasant, just distinctive. 1967.