Products from the past

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Thought I'd start a nostalgic thread about products from the past, after being reminded about Timotei. Used to lose that stuff. They had great commercials too. VO5 apparently doesn't exist in shops like it used to.

I think the most iconic commercial was the flake in the bath one, where it overflows.

Yes I had those ballet shoes, in fact I think my mum still has them in her wardrobe! And Pretty Peach perfume and handbream the lids looked like a wee peaches, innocent days. Avon still do Skin So Soft range which is meant to be great for keeping mossies and midges away

I still have my little blossom lip balm from when I was about 3/4 (I'm 35 now) its in my bedside drawer and I often get it out as it still smells the same and I love it ! Tube is a bit battered now and there's not much lip balm left !!

This one

Avon apple shaped soaps
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I loved flex shampoo too
Dewberry scented stuff from the body shop, personally I hated the smell
Paloma Picasso perfume
Sinergy (sp) face wash

Lipcôte - made your lips sting but your lippy stayed perfect.

I loved the Vidal Sassoon shampoo. You got three things in the range - shampoo , conditioner and some kind of rinse.

Boots sell Lipcote.

Coty's Exclamation! Apparently they still sell it. I had a bottle 25 years ago.

Used to like these hair curlers that had a bottle of spray to hold the curls in. It smelt divine, think it was called Papiloton(?) not sure. It was when perms were all the rage.

Cleopatra Soap - blue and gold packaging and seemed so luxurious at the time.

My mum loved Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner and hasn't found anything she likes since!
I loved the revlon ones in a black bottle!

Also revlon used to do a foundation called complexion something I think which I loved!

Boots used to do a brilliant leave-in conditioner with calendula in the late 90s. My soap-dodger boyfriend called it pansy spray, but it made his waist-length hair so soft and shiny.

I remember e eryone using a white crayon to colour the tips of the nails white from underneath

Every time you wash your hands you would have to reapply

But remember seeing lots of women on the tube with those crayons doing their nails in the early 90s

Salon selectives shampoos and conditioners in the pink bottles I loved them and the smell I can almost smell it now it takes me back to my teens

AquaManda!

Thought of another - the perfume 4711 was the scent of my childhood. Everyone was wearing it until the Body Shop Dewberry was discovered...

I can't imagine what it must have been like to walk into a classroom of all girls all wearing the same perfume....

I miss Cosmetics-To-Go, it was way better than Lush.

Yardley "You're the Fire" perfume was gorgeous.

I went into town to look for the original Vosene, not Boots nor Superdrug had any in. Went for a new one on offer that smells of apples. But it was the salicylate acid I think that made Vosene so good on dandruff.

I saw some Astral on offer in Superdrug. A lonesome perming kit too.

I loved wash and go so much.

Reminscing whilst listening to 80's music.

Belles de Ricci!! I ADORED this fragrance but was discontinued in this country years ago and other countries a couple of years ago. This is still my all time favourite fragrance I have ever smelt!

*If anyone has even a tiny tiny bottle of this left, and wish to sell it I will happily pay generously!!

Rimmel Twilight Teaser lipstick a sort of frosted lilac colour
I once got a big box of Cover Girl makeup and used the concealer as foundation by just colouring in my face
White Satin perfume
YYardley Lace perfume
Green hair gel in tubs that looked like Swarfega

Thought of another - "Liberty" perfume from the early 80's. I would drench myself in it!

boots used to do a range of soaps etc that were collectable, not natural collection but something like that.. can't remember ! This was in the early 80s

Rizzle - I remember Cleopatra soap and am happy to find it on Amazon! Different packaging but reviews say same smell. Now to find some LOreal Nouriance shampoo and conditioner in the dark brown bottles.

Wash n Go shampoo in the green bottle

Dimensions shampoo I think it came in a blue & purple bottle. It made my wavy hair really curly, almost like cork screw curls.

Rimmel Black Cherry lipstick