Anyone remember this hand cream/jelly?

VfM4meplse

Just had to investigate - still have no visual recollection of this product but am intrigued by it!



Detailed review can be found here. Can anyone tell me whether it contains animal products?

MoaningMyrtle

My Nan used this and Astral cream for her face. My mum used Nulon hand craeam religiously and Anne French cleansing milk. Nulon was available in pink or lemon in glass bottles before it progressed to pink only in plastic bottles.

NewShadow

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Just had to investigate - still have no visual recollection of this product but am intrigued by it!

Detailed review can be found here. Can anyone tell me whether it contains animal products?

This help?

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Remember this well, and also my Mum's favourite which she carried in her handbag everywhere a stick of 4711 cologne.I only have to smell it to remind me of my late Mother,when poorly in bed with a bad head (I suffered dreadfully with migraine as a child) she would put some on my temples to cool my head She also carried a tin of Quickies which were in a small round dark blue tin and were probably the forerunner of wet wipes .She used them for removing make-up (in her case a dab of rouge and Yardley's face powder) or tidying up a grubby child (usually me )

Back in those days post-war most women carried a powder compact with a small mirror in it to dab their faces with during the day.I remember back in the late 1950s when I started work I used Helena Rubinstein all in one make-up on my face in a light peaches and cream colour and Rubinstein's Apple Blossom eau de cologne.It helped that my Dad worked as a chemist so he got a good discount for me from the shop, most of my friends used Max Factor pan-stick and powder. Does anyone remember using the block of mascara with a little brush .You would spit on the block to get it wet enough to load up the tiny brush with No wand-type mascara in those days :):)
Everything by Rimmel was 1s 3d to buy (about 7p) no matter what you bought,but the make-up was dire then and I would only ever buy the nail varnish as the face make-up wasn't good for your skin.

My Dad would always treat me to White Fire perfume by Grossmith in a scarlet box for Christmas.maybelline was unheard of back then .
Hairspray you could go into a chemist with a plastic bottle and get it filled up from a container for about 1s 6d (8p) and everyone I knew would buy it that way.No tins back then they were too expensive to buy I remember buying Vosene or Loxene shampoo and Friday night was Amami night for lots of girls, as you wanted your hair looking good for a night at the local Palais on Saturday night.Girls drank orange squash or if you had a well-off boyfriend he might treat you to a Babycham with a cherry on a stick only one though as you couldn't go home smelling of drink or you would be grounded by your parents. I was married and a Mum of one aged 23 before I ever went in a pub with my OH and even then I still stuck to a Babycham. Pubs were for older men, and not youngsters,they usually smelt pretty horrible as well:)

Totally different life back then, I had a bottle of Lentheric Tweed for perfume from my OH and thought I was the bees knees :):)

Abbafan1972

Wow I'm sure I remember this too!

monnagran

Of course, back in the day it came in a glass bottle but otherwise it hasn't changed much. Like other posters I've had a sudden attack of nostalgia and feel I must rush to
Boots and get a blast from the past.
M
The Lavender Water and Eau de Cologne reminds me that before the war there was a shop in Southampton High Street that used to wash the pavement outside with one of these perfumes every morning. I think it was called something like Laceys and they produced their own perfumes. Must have smelt amazing.

Jackie: did you ever get to use the Ponds lipstick called 'Natural' that looked bright orange in the stick but turned pink on the lips? I thought that being 'natural' my father wouldn't notice that I was wearing it. Fat chance!
Yes, I do remember the 'spit on' mascara, and how if you couldn't afford the real thing you tried to get the same effect with black shoe polish. Disaster! Panda eyes didn't even come near to describing it.

You youngsters haven't lived.

x

juliettet

I used Anne French cleansing milk. Loved the Pears soap until they changed the formula. My Mum used Veloutee cream powder. My Dad used Wrights coal tar soap. Remember huge bars of Fairy green soap that was used to rub on collars before washing and melted in hot water for scrubbing the floor. What were the soap flakes called?

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juliettet wrote: »

I used Anne French cleansing milk. Loved the Pears soap until they changed the formula. My Mum used Veloutee cream powder. My Dad used Wrights coal tar soap. Remember huge bars of Fairy green soap that was used to rub on collars before washing and melted in hot water for scrubbing the floor. What were the soap flakes called?

Lux in a dark blue/purple box used to wash out stockings with it
Yes I remember that lipstick and it didn't fool my Mum either.I too used Cherry Blossom shoe polish when too broke to buy a block of mascara and you're right it was awful :rotfl::rotfl:

I remember my middle brother Davey delighted to find a local lass willing to go to the flicks with him and trying to impress her, and not having any Brylcreem, plastering some Summer County marg on his hair (well it was supposed to be 10% butter :)) hoping she wouldn't notice in the back row .Apparently it was quite a warm evening and of course he became somewhat 'ripe with melted marg running down his neck :):) he was far too embarrassed to ask her for a second date bless him :):)
The daft things we did back then but so much fun and we were very inventive.dabbing a bit of clear nail varnish on ladders in your stockings to stop them getting bigger

PS a tiny pot of Ponds cold cream lasted me for ages as when I started work I earned just over a fiver a week and by the time I had paid for my keep and fares I was left with just over £2.00 to spend for myself.By the time I was 16 though I saved up enough to go on a 12 day coaching holiday to Belgium,France,Germany,Luxenbourg with 7 nights in Switzerland, staying in Brunnen.It cost 35 guineas, and in those days you were only allowed to take around £30 in currency out of the country.My British Visitors passport cost me 7/6d (38p) and was valid for a year.I had to get different currancies for different countries but I still came home with a small amount of left over cash.I used to walk each way to work to save an extra few shillings a week and luckily I had 3/- a day in luncheon vouchers which paid for my lunch from the company I worked for . Fantastic holiday though and I came home to tell my Mother about how in Germany and Switzerland people used huge pillows instead of blankets on their beds (duvets) and hung them out of their windows to air every day and I saw in Belgium colour TV for the first time and it was a sort of blue/green colour.

I also told my Mum of a fabulous invention where to have a cup of tea you had a little bag on a string in a cup of hot water my Mum said it would never catch on over here as people liked to have a cup of tea from a teapot :):) This was 1959 and I thought Germany was such a fancy place as it was all brand new shops everywhere and so bright and modern It never occurred to me that it had been rebuilt, as London still had lots of bomb sites and was quite grey and dull by comparison :):)

VfM4meplse

Loving your slices of life as ever, JackieO!

I managed to get the last pot on the shelf at the Bond St store yesterday. I've been using it sparingly (aware of the "bobble" effect described in the review) and it seems a nice product. As it was triple points over £30 it cost me the equivalent of £1.12; had I bought 3 the price would have been 67p per pot. Worth it as I was on my last bottle of foundation anyway.

Emm-in-a-pickle

Thanks for this thread OP, I didn`t think Cremolia was still available, but now I`ve bought some. Never used it myself but I well remember mum used to swear by it in the late 1950`s/early 60`s when she was a district nurse/midwife, doing a lot of hand-scrubbing!
Mum wasn`t one for make-up or perfume, but did use eau de cologne, esp the 4711 stuff, and I sometimes got doused with it when I was ill - still think of lavender as a `comfort` smell now.
Does anyone remember the paper powder? Mum used this very rarely if she was hot and bothered on special occasions, just to take the `shine` off her nose, she said.
It was like a little book, size of a book of stamps, and you ripped out a page and rubbed it on the skin. It never looked like face powder like my friends` mums wore though.

Now that I`m strolling down Memory Lane...
When I was in my teens I had acne, so using make-up was a real nightmare, plus parental disapproval of `putting muck on your face`. I had some stuff from the GP that dried in a sulphur-tasting powdery look, must have looked a sight! I was allowed a bit of mascara eventually, and powder eyeshadow if it wasn`t too noticeable a colour.

I once tried some stick eyeshadow, like a small lipstick in a goldy-bronze, but it just went into lines in the creases of eyelid -yuck. I eventually used it up on my hair, believe it or not! A friend had streaks put in her hair, and I copied the effect with this eyeshadow, it made hair a bit greasy afterwards, but it did last a few hours and brushed out quickly before my parents saw it!