Is this the oldest tub of sudocrem?

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Clearing out my mums house as she’s moving and weve found a massive tub of sudocrem. Expiry date is jul 1991 🤣 it’s still got a tiny scrape in it. Given I was born in July 91 and she said she used that tub for all 4 of us it’s a miracle it wasn’t used up entirely.

We also found some birds eye custard in my Nanas cupboard when she died that was exp 1970 so that probably wins! Tell me what the best expiry date you’ve found :)

Are we still talking about Sudocreme or have we moved on 😂

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I’ve got Vaseline from the mid-90s in my horse first aid kit. And some equine sun cream from 1992 😂😂

Hehe, I wondered about that but they are discussing Coleman’s mustard powder I think!

My MIL died in 2015. When clearing out her kitchen cupboards we found a Christmas pudding with a 1990 best before date.

Yep, we still have a jar in the cupboard, half full. Oldest DC is almost 30, which is when it would have been bought. It still looks fine!

Eek! Colman’s mustard powder of course.
Gdcs have more than once tried eating Sudocrem, I don’t think I ever asked how tasty it was, but maybe they were too little to express culinary opinions.

It's a long time ago now but I remember around 1980 finding & trying a bit of chocolate I found when i was having a nose around at my grandparents. It looked fine but tasted a bit bitter. Turns out it was grandad's mess tin & it was the chocolate they gave to the soldiers during ww2!

I found a tub of baking soda in my dad’s cupboard recently. Price sticker was 2 and a half p 😁 must be late 70s I think or very early 80’s

I think I can win, although there wasn't an expiry date. When I cleared out my DGU (great uncles) house in 2019, I found in a drawer in his back bedroom a first aid tin. In the tin was a glass brown bottle with a prescription hand written on the label giving his name, the date was 1959 and the prescription was for valium. There where still little white pills in the bottle.

We lost all the sudocrem, the mustard gets used and the medication is thrown out. However, I still have a TIN of my nanas germoline from the 80s! And yes, it still stinks lol

I still have a tub of Sudocrem from 2000. I was a Childminder and had over 60 children in the next 25 years. It was used on them all.

Its still half full.

My mum still has these in her cupboards… 😂🙈

I can only imagine, my now 19 year old got into a jar of petroleum jelly when he was a toddler, it was everywhere ,in his hair ,up his nose in his ears 🙈

And these…

no dates on any of them 🤷‍♀️

Out of interest, is horse sun cream any different to human SPF? Whilst I’m generally fairly relaxed about dates with most household goods etc, I have to admit I’m fastidious with checking my sunscreens and their expiry dates. I religiously use SPF every day on my face (home or away, rain or shine), so I’d never risk going away on my holidays and ending up burned, getting sunstroke or something far, far worse, all because I’m using outdated and ineffective sunscreen.

I still cringe remembering my teen/young 20s self going on holidays to places like Cyprus, Greece, Egypt and Mexico, convinced Factor 2 Tanning Oil was the only way to go 🤦🏼‍♀️

I love this !!

😱 yes you win!!

Ah I remember the tins of Germoline the tubes are just not the same.

I love these!

I really hope I’m not overstepping the mark here. However have you had that mole looked at on your hand? If not I would suggest that you do because it’s pretty rare for moles to be on palms of hands, it’s a special type of mole (acral) that needs to be closely monitored. If you could afford it I’d get a dermatologist to do a mole mapping session on it every year (costs about £100) to check it isn’t changing microscopically.

If you haven’t seen your GP about it yet I would recommend you have it looked at.

Im a consultant dermatologist.

My grandma gave me an unopened bottle of Gordon’s gin in the 80s that still had a price sticker on it in shillings & pence. Remember getting absolutely hammered on it with my roommate as it was 70%. Just looked onljne and that was the most expensive drink Ive ever had as it now sells online for £400+

My nan had a bottle of kaolin and morphine it’s got to have been from the 60s. I remember having as a kid.

Not over stepping at all thank you for your concern ☺️.

No I haven’t had it looked at all, I’ve had it for years and years, I’m sure it was a pinch from something and a blood blister that never went. Although my daughter (nearly 15) has just shown me that she also has two on her left palm. I’ll take a look into mole mapping for us both. Thank you! ☺️

Ah phew! Thank you for taking it how I intended it 🥰

I dont know if I ever actually bought sudocrem but the tiny tub you got free in a bounty pack from the hospital, im sure lasted at least a decade! (Im also pondering how they made a profit, particularly since they literally gave it to you for nothing in the first place!! )

When my dad died in 2019 we cleared out his freezer and there were some things from safeway.....so they were pretty old since it closed in 2004. And a tin of mango i the cupboard best before 2006.

When we were kids in the 1980s/90s we visited my Auntie, who had a granny annex for her parents in the same house. They had recently had some workmen in to do some repairs in the annex kitchen. They had been woken up by an explosion which turned out to be a tin of peaches she had had since ww2! 🤣🤣