The discontinued GERMOLENE pink ointment that we all loved.

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On the internet one can read how all lovers of this truly fantastic ointment are so unhappy with it's disappearance. I get my Germolene ointment from friends visiting South Africa. It's a cream/red/blue packaging, and it clearly states OINTMENT. Aspen Pharmacare South Africa manufacture it, and it's exactly the same as we all know it. Sold in Boots like shops or the pharmacist. A 50g tube costs about £ 4. I have noticed that the power of the ointment, does reduce some time after the expiry date. So to extend the expiry date, I keep my extra tubes in the fridge. So find some one who is visiting South Africa, or get a friend in SA to send you a few tubes. I have just now (19/11/2018) seen a 50g tube on Ebay UK at £24.99 with expiry date 11/2019, so watch out for the expiry date!. Hope this helps other lovers of this truly fantastic ointment.

Not sure where you live but you can still buy it in the UK. The packaging is different to you photo but it's still the same.

I bought some in Wilko's back in the Summer. Cost me around £2-3 if I remember correctly.

Everyone had it, I'm not so sure about everyone loving it.

And yes, packaging is different to the one in your photo. It comes in a blue and yellow tube same as it used to, but plastic rather than metal now.

OMG! That takes me back.My grandad used to swear by the stuff, he did everything except spread it on his toast. Dogs, chickens, children all smeared and treated with the sticky stuff. It was sensible, when visiting , to keep any scrapes, aches or pains to yourself until you got home as he used the same tin for everything and the biological mix in the ointment could have provided enough DNA to populate a new world.

Cheaper than I thought, and blue and pink (was convinced it was yellow, but just been to check in the medicine box and it is indeed pink).

www.wilko.com/en-uk/germolene-antiseptic-cream-30g/p/0100128

PP saying you can still buy it in the UK - you can't! OP isn't talking about the white cream (linked above) or the clear gel . The thread is about the pink oil based ointment. Which was awesome.

That's the cream not the ointment Daniel. Very different things.

I buy that all the time. Although I prefer the cream to the ointment I know they still sell the ointment as I buy it accidentally on occasion. Where are you that it is difficult to find? It's in most supermarkets and pharmacies here in uk!

Gahh I've not even opened it yet so I presumed it was the same thing. So disappointed now. Feel like demanding a refund.

But the OP is specifically mentioning the ointment. What we can get in the UK is the cream - white and doesn't smell quite the same. No idea whether it works the same though!!!

cross-post with lots of people - I'm obviously too slow at typing

In the 80s, when pale pink lipstick was in fashion, we used to wear it on our lips to school, so we could say it was an ointment for chapped lips rather than lipstick if asked.

When I was a child (1970’s) any scrape was smeared in zinc pink healing ointment. It was magical stuff

Charmingly more to the point - where are you?! It must be the last bastion of pink germolene-ness in the UK!

Or are you in the 1980s? Could you have a quick peek at a newspaper and check please?

This was the look we were going for

Pink Germolene smells like waterproofs.

Try it.

I would have been more impressed if this had been about the germolene they used to sell in the circle tin!

I bought Germolene recently and was so upset it was not the same! I actually had a rant about to DP who had never seen the original so had no clue what the hell I was on about haha.

My mum has a little tin and it lasted forever, she only threw it out once we’d all moved out!

Xpost Lucie!

@Jammydodger1981

I used to love those little tins! Looking at your user name though, you may have been an 80s baby like me too so it’s part of our history!!!

Yes the round tin it was kept under the sink and you knew you had properly scraped your knee if it came out!

where can I get a tin or tube of the old fashioned pink Germolene?

I used to love Germolene! Can anyone remember the sweets that used to taste the same?

I also quite liked Lion Brand ointment. It looked a bit like earwax but if you put it on a splinter it would draw it out.

My husband was in a Major RTA on a Motorcycle. .He broke his Collar Bone , which was sticking out of the skin.(Compound Fracture) and the Brake Handle cut into his side.All the hospital did was blow antiseptic powder onto the wounds and nothing else.(Honestly) !! I was a nurse myself, so when we got home I bathed his wounds and put Germolene Ointment (which I prefer.) onto the areas and then Meloline and Micropore. I changed the dressings daily and cleaned and redressed them in the same manner.The outcome was, he hasn't a trace of a scar anywhere thanks to Germolene..God knows what would have happened had the wounds been left as they were initially. (What ever has happened to A & E these days..) (Short staffed no doubt.) Glad I was taught nursing when I did in 1976 onwards.