Fuck this shit. I've decided I'm going retro with my skin care.

[HoneyDragon]

It occurred to me the other day that I like Steam Cream because it's like a cold cream, but lighter.

I used cold cream (Nivea) every night throughout my teens and early twenties.

It's occurred to me that I've only ever adapted my skin care when stuffs been discontinued or because I've got older and you are supposed to change and you age.

In all honesty my skins no different to it was 15 years ago apart from the odd wrinkle.

I picked up some Nivea last week pm in pound,and and I had forgotten his much crap it gets off my face and how nice it leaves my skin.

So I thought back, and I've spent the last 10 years trying to find a cleanser as good as Himalaya cleansing milk, and non have been, not even close. Even Lancôme and Clarins. You could see the grime come off your skin, and it melted make up in seconds (stung the eyes though so used Nivea to remove eye up).

So I've ordered some on Ebay that is imported.

And ditto for Ponds Vanishing Cream. That was so good in the mornings that I could go without make up and it kept my shine free all day. And when I put make up no primer was required.

So I've sourced that too. Up till now never occurred to me to see if they were still been manufactured else where in the world.

I am happy and excited, and can't wait till they come

What other products were really brilliant that you just can't get in the UK anymore?

I coveted Exclamation and then I was bought some and it gave me headaches!

My grandma used Astral religiously and approaching 90 had fine lines but no major wrinkles and considering she had never applied SPF in her life I think it had done her proud. She always put on Atrixo before putting on rubber gloves and washing up and she had the smoothest hands!

Once multispray in the green bottle gave me perfect curls whereas the Once multispray designed for curls just gave me frizz?

I loved the Japanese granules from the Body Shop and Ponds cold cream and Dewberry perfume.
The smell of White Musk instantly transports me back to my mum getting ready to go out!

I miss Origins tea tree and mint moisturizing mousse, it really woke you up in the morning!

That johnsons mousse was lovely

Whoever mentioned Cosmetics To Go - I had a chocolate orange solid shampoo bar that smelled delicious. I think they became Lush, but don't quote me on that.

Charles Worthington used to do an anti-dandruff shampoo in a teal bottle. It was £4 (FOUR POUNDS!) a bottle but the smell...heaven.

I used to love Body Shop satsuma/cola/ice cream bubbles.

Liplix tinted lip balm. It was chocolate flavour and Just Seventeen raved about them. I thought my d chocolate

Stupid fat fingers. Last bit should say I thought boys would be flocking to kiss my soft, chocolate flavoured, strangely brown coloured lips. They didn't.

I love Neutrogena Rain Bath. It can be found over here but one does not trip over it in every store. I love that slightly medicinal scent, a bit like Pears.

Some old style shampoo whose name goes unremembered in a tall narrow round bottle. Maybe a ginseng type scent?

Another vote for Coco Loco here- those CTG shampo bars were super gorgeous.

I use Steam Cream, Crema and thick lovely Nivea. Ponds is sold in Boots and is very easy to find.

Bonnie Bell meake up remover and toner has a scent as addictive as crack in my opinion and is the smell of my teenage years. Astringent as hell but lovey.

RipMac

I use Boots cucumber facial gel wash and I do not feel awake without it. I wash in cold water and it tightens my face without tightening it if you know what I mean? I never get that dry scratchy sensation that other so called super amazing (and expensive) facial wash gels give me (Dior wash off gelee- that means YOU).

Talkie I love henna wax! Used to use it all the time.

And I used to henna my hair proper, mix it up like a cow pat and slap it on, tin foil on top, and sit in front of the fire to get it really intense!

Still use Atrixo and agree with poster who said aqueous cream is fantastic...I use it to wash with. Leaves your skin really soft.

I remember so many of these!

Vosene in tear bottle can be found in Poundland, I saw some today.

Oh I forgot to ask, what is a steam cream please?

Cosmetics to Go totally sold out when the became Lush

They are just as bad as The Body Shop, and I've never forgiven them

Steam cream is a light moisturising cream scented with Lavender and takes aaaaaages to choose one as all the tins are so pretty

Here although it's vastly cheaper buying it elsewhere.

Cosmetics to Go went bankrupt in the early 90s and owed me £35 which I never got back.

Does anyone or your mum use Badedas bath soak? Last time I went back home and I was ill my mum ran me a bath and it was heavenly. I think it has morphine or cannabis in it. I went straight to bed and fell asleep. She has used it for years but was never allowed to use it as she said it was too dear. :o

Erm, steam cream, as made by Lush!

Lush didn't create it, they invested in the company and were involved in the rebranding as far as I am aware?

And CTG products were vastly superior to the crap Lush sell now.

Is the steam cream any good then, I am aged and in need!

At school the must have thing to carry around was a little pot of Body Shop lip balm. I had the apricot one, it was lovely.

Also loved Body Shop White Grape (?) toner. It smelt lovely.

I loved the Japanese washing grains, too.

It's Oil of Olay in America :)

I had a cucumber gel face mask. It dried clear, almost plasticky, and then you had to peel it off. It was like pulling dried glue off your fingers...heavenly!

My first ever moisturiser was Body Shop Vitamin E cream , it was really expensive at around 5 a jar! Over the years I've gone to expensive stuff (Origins, Clarins, Estee Lauder and eek L'Occitane), to the natural stuff (Mother Earth) and currently using the Dr Organics stuff from Holland and Barrett.

The basic Oil of Ulay reminds me of my mum, and she has brilliant skin.

I loved Body Shop coconut oil shampoo, and their honey toner (although I think that was for mature skin? I think I won some in a raffle!).

Remember a tub of atrixo always on the cabinet in our living room, and the fascination when pulling off a Biore strip.

This thread has made me nostalgic!

I too used Anne French cleansing milk but remember it was very runny and I wasted a lot. I was a Saturday girl at Boots in the early ad mid 70's and no sooner had I got my wages in a brown packet (£1.76), I was spending it on Harmony hair tints, linco beer shampoo, miners eyeshadow in bright purple or green and so on.
Someone earler mentioned Delph. Im sure in the late 70's early 80's. there was a contraceptive foam used in conjunction with condoms called Delph!

Linco beer shampoo was in a brown plastic beer barrel shaped container.

Face masks that you'd paint on and dried like rubber that you'd then peel off?

The guy who owns/owned Lush started off CTG I think? Hasn't it always been the same people but trading under 2 different names? Maybe wrong, but thought I'd read that somewhere, and then because nobody had heard of CTG hardly, they just merged the two companies.

Can anyone remember Midas bubble bath? A fluorescent green bottle with dimples in it? Divine smell, you used to get it in a fancy box for Christmas, and without a box the rest of the year.

I used the Henara blonde shampoo, and would wash my hair, then plait it, then sit in the garden and let it dry naturally, then take the plaits out. All because I couldn't afford crimpers.

I've always had ridged nails, and also remember some horrendous polyfilla stuff from Rimmel, that you dobbled in the ridges and they were supposed to disappear. Yeah, right.

I think Avon did a peel off mask that I used. I loved the Johnson's baby oil mousse too. I was about 17 when I used that.
I remember when hair mousse was all the rage in the 80's. I uses a Loreal one from the chemist & tried to copy the hair style on the can.
I used the boots lip salve in mint, original & I think thee was strawberry or cherry. Also used Body shop Kiwi lip balm.

My mum used to use Badedas. I sometimes have a sniff of it in sainsburys & then get all nostalgic & maudlin (she died when I was 13). It's a nice smell though, all pine-y & comforting. I might buy some.
The smell of my youth was definitely Body Shop Dewberry.
I was another avid ten-o-six user. I loved seeing the manky grey Cotten wool after you'd scrubbed it all over your face. And the tight immovable skin you were left with. My poor face :(

Does anyone remember Fa eau de something? It came in either a green or blue bottle and had a really fresh zingy smell. I remember getting a fancy atomiser bottle as a gift. I'd fill it with Fa and drench myself in the stuff.