What products do you miss?

marmitepotato

Tins of French Fern and Sandalwood talc, that mum used to buy in Boots. Bath cubes that weighed a ton and dissolved into grit in the bath and scratched your bum!

SpecialBrew_2

We didn't have selection boxes often, but one year in the early seventies we had one (between us) that had a 'make your own miniature garden' printed on the back, including a cardboard 'greenhouse' that you cut out and folded so that it was just the right size to stand in the plastic tray in an empty square bit vacated by one of the chocolate bars, various cardboard fences, flowers etc, plus a packet of cress seeds that you grew on a piece of tissue or cotton wool in another empty square section. Quite cool, that one. We didn't always have a telly but when we did, Christmas meant the Cointreau couple simpering over each other, Victor Kyam waxing lyrical about his nasal hair trimmer and endless ads for K-Tel record compilations. And we loved it all

Maybe I'm looking back through a piece of rose tinted glass, or maybe it's because that kind of thing was such a rarity to us anyway but I remember Easter egg packaging being a bit more exciting than it is today too.

Another perfume I remember from the seventies was 'Kiku', which had bright, sunshine yellow tops on the bottles. My mum's friend had some, as well as Kiku perfumed talc, which came in a big yellow plastic ball.

I also remember the cider ice lollies, but my favourite was always cherry brandy. Even if it did usually seem more ice than lolly

candlelight_2013

I can remember my Mum wearing Evening in Paris perfume. It came in a tiny blue bottle and she only wore it if she was going somewhere special with Dad.

Talking of easter eggs, when I was a teenager there was a sweet shop in town which used to have the most wonderful display at Easter. Some were made of sugar with coloured sugar craft around the edge and had a small hole in the end. When you looked through the hole there was a paper scene of something wonderful, like a waterfall or garden or flowers.

I longed for one of these, they came in all sizes but you can imagine they were expensive. Anyway one year my Nan bought me one, it was only small, but was gorgeous. I kept it for years until I left home and married.
I haven't seen anything like that in many years.

Candlelight x

ArtDecoGirly

I miss St Ivel Gold and Bird's Hot Crunch Banana Pudding!

MrsAtobe

Does anyone else remember the lockets that had solid perfume in? My mum had one, but I can't remember which perfume was in it. It was a gold coloured bracelet and locket, it came in a blue box.

paulineb_2

I used to use shaders and toners a lot when I was about 14. Also glints but that was a few years later. Oh god, sun in as well, very briefly though. I remember those bath cubes and talc, got them for my christmas many a time.

Twighlight teaser lipstick, am sure they probably still make it.

monnagran

LV Sue: I always went for the brown smarties because I kidded myself that they tasted of coffee. Funny that. I loved the smell of coffee, adored anything that was coffee flavoured but couldn't stand drinking the stuff. That all changed when I went off to College.
When my boys were young they only had sweets on a Sunday afternoon and I eventually discovered that DS1 had managed to convince DS2 that the red smarties were poisonous and had better be handed straight over to him for disposal!

SpecialBrew:

I remember teaching three sisters whose Nan bought them identical coats. Years later, when the youngest was in my class I said how well the coats had lasted. "Yes," she said bitterly, "I grew out of mine, then I grew out of Helen's and now I'm growing out of Hazel's."

Does anyone remember when Easter Eggs weren't necessarily chocolate? I once had a white sugar one, hollow but with a peephole at one end. If you looked through the peephole you could see a scene from a fairy tale inside.

I only remember 2 perfumes from Woolies - California Poppy and Evening in Paris. They were both pretty pungent.

BRING BACK DUAL!!!!! Nothing has ever matched it for clean shiny floors. Some of us still live in Victorian houses with quarry tiles in porches and doorways.

Eiffel orandeade powder.
Eldorado ice cream. Some didn't rate it because it tended to have little bits of ice in it. Just the reason I loved it.
Gobstoppers that changed colour as you sucked them.
Flash Powder. Yes, you had to mix it up but it seemed much more powerful that the liquid stuff.

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Oooh Candlelight, you got in first with the sugar eggs. Glad someone else had one.

candlelight_2013

MONNAGRAN isn't that funny, I have never known anyone else who had one of those eggs, and didn't know what on earth I was talking about when I told them.

Candlelight x

monnagran

Candlelight: I know. I've never found anyone who knew what I was talking about either. People look at you kinda funny don't they? I sometimes wonder if I've dreamt these things.

I remember that egg particularly because that Easter was the last time I was sick. I was 11 .....erm....... 64 years ago! I have a robust digestive system, although my family put it somewhat less politely.

Ches

Yardley Exuberance perfume, I loved it.