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Carbolic soap uses?
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Hi Thistle-down,
There's an earlier thread on household soap that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.
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The green "Fairy" soap is great for rubbing on stains and for handwashing. I haven't seen it for years. It is very kind to the skin.
I find it ironic that in French markets I can easily buy old Marseilles soap in blocks, very cheaply, but can't easily find the equivalent here. Thanks for the info!0 -
I can remember my friends Mum grating green 'fairy' soap to use to wash her hair with back in the mid 1950s, wash lovely and shiny I remember that
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I remember that on one occasion Lifebouy Toilet soap, (smelt like carbolic ) ran a competition for an advertising jingle.
My Dad, who didn't have a poetic bone in his body, produced the following.
Lifebouy Toilet stops BO
So use it every day.
It makes you very nice to know
And keeps the fleas away.
He was outraged that Mum wouldn't let him send it in.
That must have been about 70 years ago. Strange the things you remember.
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Who lift us to our feet when our wings
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My mum always threatened to wash my mouth out with Carbolic soap if I kept answering her back and one day she did it with a floor cloth covered in Carbolic soap. Yuk I hate the stuff.0
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I used to hate it. Now it reminds me of holidays in India - for some reason everything in the suitcase would smell of it, although I never actually smelled it out there - and if I'm lucky enough to come across it here, I inhale deeply.Smells foul.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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The large bars of carbolic soap are for household use not for use on skin.You can find carbolic soap that is made in the UK on Trouva0
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I remember my mum using it for scrubbing the floors (and maybe other things) when I was little, even now when I smell it, I'm instantly transported back to my childhood.
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I remember chunks of it being in the cloakrooms at both primary and secondary school. Love the smell of it.Stopped smoking 27/12/2007, but could start again at any time :eek:0
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this was on the sinks in primary school...i remember loving the smellonwards and upwards0
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