Old school products -trip down memory lane

[sarah2011]

Remember Body shop ice blue shampoo and animal soaps, body and face place pineapple lip balm. Explanation perfume, Charlie red, youth dew?? What are your fave beauty products from days of old?

Body shop perfume bar!
Bath pearls - does anywhere still sell them!?
Natural Collection mango deep conditioning tub - smelt AMAZING
Flex (like many others!)
Shaders & Toners!
getting lots of nice flash back smells!

ooh and the smell of burnt hair from babyliss straightner and crimper in 1!

I had those straighteners

I would still wear Paris I think it's pretty classic. I had marsh mellow natural collection stuff.

I still have a bottle of Paris, and when I got it last year I called my friend immediately (she was the one who wore it in 87, I was in Rive Gauche) and said "go and buy some at once". She did and called back to say "OMFG, 1987!!!" That's what is so fabulous about perfume!

Cheapir pre Claires jewellry shop "Razzle Dazzle" (loved it )
And "What Every Woman Wants" (pre Primark )

Miss Selfridge 'Kiss and Make-Up' (I think there was 'Boo Boo Baby' cleanser, they had the lipstick blot patterns (I had the dressing gown )

Miners make up - turquoise packaging with white Ms on it. You could either get the cheap push up lipstick or the more expensive twist one. In 1978 we all wore the denim blue kohl pencil that collected in the corners of our eyes!

Delph lemon cleanser
Anne French also did a face mask called Glo-5
Almondy smelling Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner
Maybelline Kissing Potion
Evette cosmetics from Woolies

Perfumes... Laughter, Stevie B, 5 a.m, Maxi, Tramp, Moondrops - I still remember some of the adverts for these!
Bonne Belle lip balms
Max factor comb on mascara

Later on I loved stuff from Cosmetics to go- the coconut shampoo and conditioner, neroli hair perfume, tangle conditioner and the soaps- Milky bar Isobar and sand bar- Lush just isn't as good

Stevie B, Charlie, 10-0-6 and multi coloured tissues and cotton will balls, Oxy 5 for spots, the Rimmel adverts with pictures of all the different colour nail polishes and eyeshadows, I had Frosted Willow and Nutmeg. Immac cream which stank to high heaven.

Exclamation
Nova hairspray
Rimmel very berry lipstick
Impulse body sprays
Charlie red
From the body shop-
White musk
Dewberry
Roma
Passion fruit cleansing gel
Japanese washing grains-like washing your face with spiky gravel

Oh and samsara and Paris perfumes.

My cousin and I used to get our pocket money on a Friday and walk to town on a Saturday morning to buy an array of toiletries and cosmetics. My favourite products were natural collection candy floss lip balm, mineral spring detangling spray, 'mum' roll on deodorant in the yellow fragrance, iced champink lipstick, exclamation! perfume (make statement, without saying a word), and salon selectives although I can't remember my combo. I wonder if any modern shampoos replicate that beautiful fragrance, I've honestly never smelled one as good since. The body shop I adored raspberry ripple bath bubbles. Ooh, and the Satsuma ones too. Also had a thing for the white musk body lotion.

Dreen shampoo.in little plastic pouches
Colour Glo hair colour.
Amarmi hair setting lotion. left the hair as stiff as a board
Body Mist deodorant in a plastic puffer spray, the smell was wonderful
Twink Home Perm
Tweed perfume
Nailoid to strengthen nails, smelt like cheap soap.

Body Shoo banana hair mask and shampoo and also the camomile shampoo.
Vidal Sasson almond rinsing shampoo.
My mums old Oriflame handed down makeup.
Exclamation spray.
Gliss hair conditioner
VO5 hot oil tubes
Electric facial sauna from. Boots
Electric manicure set from boots
My first proper perfume was Anais Anais and then Eternity.

Where do teenage girls get their make up from now that The Body Shop is so expensive!?

Does anyone remember using a gorgeous snelling clenser from the body shop- a cream one, not the passion fruit one, I can't for the life of me think of the name, it smelt amazing.
Most teenagers shop in Mac and superdrug I reckon

Dd gets a lot of her make up from Superdrug.

Where do teenage girls get their make-up?

My DD (13.6) loves Superdrug to buy practice make-up, Benefit, Mac (though she only have a Mac Lip Liner, I know she covets more)

What the dickens was that hair mousse , I can see the packaging, a woman with a blonde quiff style (not a photo, a drawing) Not Inecto , that was round that time though.

Bodyshop cleanser - I had a cucumber one but there was a honey scented one too. (Can't remember the name but you used to get the bottles refilled)

I once splashed out £££ on a 500ml pump bottle with birthday money , lasted ages.

Lemon roll on lip gloss! I can taste it now!! So lemony! Bodyshop perfume oils. Everyone had dewberry. Fuzzy peach was lovely too. Oh and ananya. Pears shampoo. Smelt lovely when i was a little girl. Like apples. Can you still get that?

Ooh there was a brand called Topaz back in the 80s, I bought a pump bottle of conditioner and a free tiny bottle of shampoo attatched.

Woods of Winsdor baths salts

Henera Shampoo and conditioner (I revisited my youth with a bargain tube of each (£1 each from Savers) smells like marshmallows )

There was a shampoo in a dark brown glass bottle , plastic hexagonal lid. It was thick, dark green, my favourite was "Nettle". IIRC , I bought in Lewis's.

Lewis's ha - are you from Liverpool? I used to work there and got my expensive make up on my store card with staff discount, I used to pay £5 a week off it every sat - served me well that little system.

... And I used to wear Lancaster sunwater perfume from there too- ♥

What the dickens was that hair mousse

It wasn't Shock Waves, was it?

Twilight Teaser, Pacific Prawn and later in the 80s, Paparazzi Pink lipsticks

Leichner pots of foundation... a few shades too dark

Flex shampoo/conditioner

Sun in

Adidas perfume

Cachet perfume

Giorgio Beverly Hills perfume (migraine in a bottle)

Woolworth's Impulse-alikes

Rock Hard hairspray

Electric blue mascara coupled with pink and white eyeshadow

Gas hot brushes

Purple Shampoo de Parfum by Sunsilk.
Not being able to afford to buy my own perfume so marinating in Impulse or Limara.
Hair mascara.
Hair mousse which had just been invented- crispy hair was IN!
Avon Eau Givree
Avon perfume at Christmas in novelty bottles- I had a Giraffe with Occurr! in.
Immac- I used it as a teen but never as an adult. The smell takes me back!
Sun In - it took me years to discover proper hair dye with nice conditioner in.
Body Shop Peppermint foot gel
Body Shop Ice Blue Shampoo
Body Shop Mostly Musk