Does anyone remember coloured toilet paper? Any other random disappearances?

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Just this really.

I have recollections of toilet paper being available in lilac, mint, peach, baby blue. My husband thinks in lying.

its now white. I’m not sure when the colours disappeared.

I'd love some lilac loo roll to brighten up the day. I realise that this is a non-problem but I’m bored and have had a glass of wine (or two).

Has anyone got any other random disappearances that cannot be explained?

Love this thread.

Wouldn’t be an 80s bathroom without bath oil pearls, coloured loo roll and a bowl of dusty pot pourrie!

Oh his yes! Body shop bath pearls! They were soooooooooooo desirable

@DorisParchment - Yes, I remember the transfer soap!

@KimberleyClark - It's only within the last year that Harmony have discontinued the the blue triangular boxes. It's still made but in a much larger tube in a white hoxwith enough for several applications. I bought Cherry Auburn a few weeks ago😀

Now, does anyone remember Knight's Castile soap?

I used to buy lilac loo roll from Wilko just after I met (now) DH nearly 20 yrs ago. It was way softer than Andrex.

Coloured tissues and cotton wool, yep, I remember them...either I'm too old now, or the world is a bit more bland than it used to be.

Used to have Bodyshop bath pearls too.

I don't think Fairy do household soap anymore. It was fab if you handwashed anything.

Loving this - was reminiscing about coloured cotton wool balls the other day

I had a Holly Hobby doll - the little one.😻
I wonder what my mum did with her?

And I had an "It's nearly the same" seconds duvet cover with a flower fairy on it.
It got replaced with Pierrot everything thanks to some craze my mum had.
I never did like clowns.

I remember this it was like medicated toilet paper

We had a primrose yellow bathroom suite & so of course my mum bought pale yellow toilet room

Oh & whoever asked about the fruit shaped soaps Body Shop used to make - they had to discontinue them as new rules were brought in saying soap can't resemble food - so no more banana shaped & scented soap

Toilet paper not toilet room!

Why was this ever invented, and why did anyone ever buy it?

Toilet paper that is shiny and non-absorbent, seems like the most useless product ever.

Sorry, I didnt mean to spoil your fun, just genuinly wanted to know and dont get why you cant answer.

Peach in my house growing up. It matched the bathroom. The 90s were elite.

I remember colourful toilet paper. Unfortunately so does my mum, and I do her shopping. Can't find her peach coloured paper these last few weeks anywhere (she hates white - I think it's a throwback to the days when white was all you could get, then suddenly these exotic colours came along). I do find it funny though, considering what it's used for!

I don't think Fairy do household soap anymore. It was fab if you handwashed anything.

I bought a block from Poundland (I think) a good few years ago. It was great for running over the collars and cuffs of white shirts.

Moth balls! I loved the smell so much. Why can’t you get them any more?

I'd forgotten they existed until I saw this. I used to get blue and lilac quite often.

We had a yellow bathroom suite & yellow loo roll

I have not seen starfruit in any supermarket for years. Last time I saw them was about 10 years ago in the main market in Jersey.
Where have they gone?

My parents installed a Sage green bathroom suit in the early 80's and were very self congratulatory about it as they had thumbed their nose at the fashionable/common avocado green suite.

They were FURIOUS that there was no such thing as sage loo roll and had to make do with mint green but told everyone they know how frustrated they were (as a stealth boast re the the sage green bathroom)

Does anyone remember a make up brand sold by Woolworths and Boots in the late 80s early 90s? Looked well fancy, grey marble packaging, silver branding. The powder was in a pebble shape compact.

I thought I was the bloody bees knees when I bought that with my birthday money. Sure it started with an 's'.
Apropos of something: I was remembering Constance Carroll and Collection 2000!

I vaguely remember coloured toilet paper but had completely forgotten about it until this thread. @Imsobored22 Thx for the reminder. I wonder why I never noticed its disappearance. 🧐

Colored and patterned loo roll is still a big thing in Japan.

That white paper with little pink flowers is a bastard. When you are in the early stages of pregnancy, you end up having “OMG, I’m having a miscarriage” moments every time you use the loo.

We had the tracing paper in our loos, horrid stuff, and then I noticed when I left home, they switched to soft paper!
We also had Ponds lotion in a bottle, which was applied to every cut, scrape and sting. It smelt nice and didn't sting when applied.
Then there was a lurid green ointment in a tin called Cuticura, which was put on to soothe grazes.

We also had that loo paper at school. It was changed after a student petition which noted that it was also used in prisons!

I worked for a major toilet tissue manufacturer in the 80s. We had 6 colours in the range which were regularly tweaked to suit colour fashion trends. We had a think tank one year to decide what to call the new beige colour. After much deliberation, the sales team side of the meeting pushed for Champagne. The main reason being we could order loads of champagne to give away to store managers as an incentive to stock the new colour (and to have a bit surplus, for the sales team to sample)