What retro beauty products do you still use..

[Pebbledashery]

I bought my usual Astral cream today which I've used for 25 years.. Just dawned on me if anyone else uses retro beauty products still 😊

Ooh I need Fidji perfume ASAP

I can't be without Wright's coal tar soap - everything else sends my skin mad and I just love the smell 😊

Euthymol toothpaste and sudacrem for every cut, rash etc and I use it as an overnight mask once a week.

I now realise that I must smell quite weird with that combo

Love Wrights coal tar soap, still use it everyday.
Euthymol is fab, I also use the toothpowder to brighten up my teeth
Nivea Blue not keen on the smell of Astral
Calvin Klein Eternity
Deep heat for muscle pain-

@BearFoxBear Sudocrem as an overnight mask?? Mind. Blown.

Vitapointe is the business

I've used colloidal oatmeal products for years. Aveeno is my go-to atm.

When I was a kid my Gran swore by Fullers Earth cream. Would love to find some of that again.

@BatleyTownswomensGuild Vitapoint, I think I must be using it wrong. How do you use it?

Clarins beauty flash balm - never found a better primer.

Pantene smooth and sleek 2 in 1 - I've tried many fancy separate shampoo and conditioners but always come back to this.

Nuxe dry oil spray

Bodyshop Japanese musk perfume oil - it's discontinued but I've stockpiled a stash I've bought on Ebay.

Impulse bodysprays - good to freshen up on hot summer days at work.

St Ives apricot scrub - i use it to get rid of "chicken skin" on my upper arms and thighs.

What a fab thread! For me it's Nivea all the way! Especially the thick greasy stuff during winter! Amazing stuff

You can't beat Astral cream imo

After buying a big tin of the blue Nivea, I've realised it's like a nicer smelling Sudocrem - similar consistency. What is actually in it?

Nivea ingredients
www.beautypedia.com/products/nivea-creme/

It's really mineral oil, petrolatum, glycerine & paraffin.
Basically the glycerin is adding the moisture & the mineral oil etc is sealing it in by being an occlusive (barrier)

I've used Fidji for more than 40 years. Not as lovely as it used to be but still pretty good.
Also Fenjal - the whole house smells lovely after a Fenjal bath
Mitchum antiperspirant
Bar soap
Ponds cold cream
Blue Nivea

@TracyBeakerSoYeah

Nivea ingredients www.beautypedia.com/products/nivea-creme/

It's really mineral oil, petrolatum, glycerine & paraffin.
Basically the glycerin is adding the moisture & the mineral oil etc is sealing it in by being an occlusive (barrier)

Yes fine for a nostalgic sniff but really no great shakes ingredient wise.

It works though.

I love Fidji it's one of the perfumes my DM wears.
I last had a bottle in early 2000.
I'm encouraged to get some now as I love those green stem/just cut flowers fragrances.
I'm currently saving up for a bottle of Chanel Bel Respiro.
That was launched in 1920.

Setting lotion! It's so brilliant for curls.

Nivea eye makeup remover (been using it since I was about 18, I’m 45 now). Also, Lancôme definicils mascara, Body shop tea tree oil stick for spots. Johnson and Johnson face cleanser I’ve been using since my teenage years. I wear Emporio Armani Elle/She perfume in the gold bottle and have done since it first came out twenty odd years ago.

@Melange99 tiny blob, the size of a pea, rubbed between your fingers and then smoothed over dry ends. Magic stuff!

Aapri facial scrub. Absolutely love it and so do my teenagers. Best scrub I've ever used and smells lovely

Thanks @BatleyTownswomensGuild I think my ends are now beyond help but I will give it a go. Haven't had a haircut since beginning of Oct, was going just when they closed them again!

Johnsons baby lotion.Used it for donkeys years to take off my eye make up.It nevers makes my eyes sting and takes anything off!

I use baby lotion as a cleanser and body moisturiser, I've never found anything better!

YSL Touché Eclat - been using for 20 years, just makes such an immediate difference and brightens up my face.

I used to love touché eclat (I remember 12 years ago in my first year of uni, I was considered to have the elite makeup bag with my gold YSL touché eclat whilst friends used a thick Rommel stick concealer) but now I think it seems poor quality and coverage. Compared to the likes of tarte shape tape and even collection lasting perfection concealer! Maybe I have a completely wrong idea of it and it was never intended for under eyes

I definitely don't think it lives up to the hype –and I used it years ago too. Maybe it's because cheaper brands have improved over the years so the difference in price doesn't seem worth it now? I saw a thread on here recently where people had said the Aldi Nars dupe concealer was better than touché eclat. If you can get a better product for a couple of quid why would you pay more? (Still trying to track down one of those flippin aldi concealers!)