Name something you had in your childhood bathroom that isn't there today?2

[OneUmberJoker]

Shower curtain

Bottle of 100 paracetamol

I've really struggled to think of something! We had different brands of bubble bath and shampoo when I was a kid, but they're all still readily available in the shops and I could buy them today if I fancied using them.

But then I remember we had a little tin of toothpaste powder stuff. I don't remember what it was called and I don't even really know why we had it - we usually just used tubes of toothpaste (though I recall those were sort of metal back then and held their shape when you rolled them up). But I do remember very occasionally using the powder and thinking it was a treat!

Ooh yes, and bottles of liquid Sudafed. Also, Tixylix - marketed as cough medicine for kids but basically just blackcurrant syrup.

Carpet
Psychedelic wallpaper
Blue bath and basin (blue loo in a separate room)
Rubber hose shower attachment
Vosene shampoo
Imperial Leather soap
Tins of toothpaste
4711 (but more likely to be kept in the bedroom)
My father's Old Spice
Old loom laundry basket/seat with cork top

We had sinks in our bedrooms too (mine was yellow) as there was only one bathroom until my parents installed an ensuite (a real extravagance at the time) in the late 1970s.

@ScarlettSunset was it Eucryl tooth powder

Possibly. I just remember it was a round tin.
I had completely forgotten about it until this morning, trying to remember something I don't have now (and have never had in the house I live in now)

bar heater on wall, ice on inside of window some mornings if up first!

Lux soap flakes for washing clothes by hand: funny prickly smell. Also sometimes used to make the bath bubbly. Didn’t dissolve properly.
Ammonia for cleaning hairbrushes. Vile pee smell.

Oh and boxes of toilet paper which was like tracing paper, horrible

@FalseSpring, that was Lloyd Loom furniture. I still have one chair.

@gogomomo2, that was Bronco. Each sheet printed with the immortal words “MEDICATED WITH IZAL GERMICIDE”

Gibbs solid toothpaste in a little flat tin.

I was trying to think of how to describe those rubber tap attachment then came across your post 😂 That is exactly what they looked like!

Clearasil, oxy pads and bleached towels. If you know you know.

How on earth did that hard paper flush, I can’t even use 3 ply, i think the waste pipes were bigger in those days .

I first met hard toilet paper at school. It made better tracing paper than toilet paper. Just horrible. As for pedestal mats, l have gone back to using them in the downstairs cloakroom. We have a laminate floor and l was starting to notice a distinctive smell round the bottom of the toilet, which was very difficult to erase. I realised that various males, both resident and visitors, were not as careful with their aim as they should be so l bought two or three pedestal mats and the problem has been solved. I would far rather wash a pedestal mat than scrub hard to eradicate a smell and eventual stain from careless splashes.

Reading the colours of bathroom suites, guessing you're a lot younger than me,75, for me if was solid eucrile toothpaste,you wet the toothbrush and rubbed it on the block..Algepan pain relief in a tube for late DFS backache (he accidentally cleaned his teeth with it once!) shampoo was either Vosene or solid shampoo in a sort of book, with layers, shaped like water lillies, holes for your fingers, fitted on the palm of your hand, then applied to wet hair. A predecessor of today's solid block shampoo..talcum powder. Fixodent for late DMs false teeth and a pink pot for them.

Camay soap, i used to rub it into a lather and put it on my face like the woman in the advert 😀

Oh, yes, I forgot about the medicated rough toilet paper,you had to scrunch it up with your hands to soften it, and so that anything actually "stuck" to it.

An Ascot water heater with one of those long "taps" that swung between the sink and the bath.

That was called "Smoker's toothpaste" and you can still get it today - it is more abrasive than standard toothpaste and the idea is that it whitens your teeth by removing yellow stains.

Carpet and a ton of bath products from Avon that used to irritate my skin but nothing for sensitive skin. One year my DF chucked the lot out.

manual toothbrushes

Chenille rug around the toilet and sink pedastals.

Mentadent P was ‘smoker’s toothpaste’, but i only ever remember that in a tube.

A large and splintery roll-on-roll-off ferry that I'd made myself from DF's wood offcuts. A large quantity of metal toy cars to go on said ferry. It had no bow doors so both cars and ferry promptly sank.

And that harsh stuff is just the worst possible thing for acne prone skin.
It’s so harsh and abrasive!