Old time perfumes, lotions, shampoo, and hair stuff we remember

[Yvonne Smith]

Bobby and I were chatting today (when we were lounging out in the pool), about bread.
Back when we were kids, you always had your sandwich on Wonder Bread …builds your body 8(12) ways! I think that was the only kind of bread that every kid ate back then, but Bobby said his grandmother discovered Sunbeam bread, which would tear better, so then he got sandwiches made with Sunbeam.

I remember the shampoo we always used was called “Halo”, and the slogan was that you could tell a Halo Girl by the shine of her hair. Breck was another popular shampoo back then, and conditioner was just called “crème rinse”, and was always white.
Guys used Bryllcream, or maybe Vaseline Hair Tonic, or the strange smelling Vitalis, that was not a hair crème at all.

My mother had Evening in Paris perfume and deodorant, and that was the first perfume I ever used, although later , I tried Tabu, and it was my favorite after that.
Hand lotion had to be Jergans that smelled like cherries and came in the beautiful milk glass container. Women used Noxema in the blue container at night.
What special ones do you remember growing up ?

 

[Beth Gallagher]

My mother liked Pond's cold cream and she had a lot of Avon products.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

I remember Pepsodent toothpaste.
VO5 shampoo. (Alberto, I think)
Prell shampoo
"Aren't you glad you use Dial soap? Don't you wish everybody did?"
"Dove is 1/4 cleansing cream."

 

[Marie Miller]

You knew where Mumsy was. She travelled in Chanel 5. My father gave me my first bottle of Chloe Narcisse. It used to be drug store merchandise. Used to be. SO sound some last year that I wanted to return! Even contractors as me what it is. Please - if you see it on line let me know.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

@Yvonne Smith , I remember everyone of those...all those that were listed
My grandmother used Lily of the Valley after bath splash cologne. I remember a lavender scent.
I have her old rouge tiny tins even today. My mother wore White Shoulders perfume, still around today.
Remember Breck shampoo ? I miss Frito Bandito

 

[Bobby Cole]

I wore a butch until I was about 6 or 7 so I do remember dad throwing a gob Butch Wax on his hand and rubbing it all over my head after he got done cutting my hair. I seriously think that Butch Wax replaced the tar as in “tarred and feathered” because anything that I might have gotten into stuck to my head as in, sawdust, dirt, leaves etc.
Then dad got the idea that i needed to look cool so it was duck-tails time and dad gave me my own tube of Brylcreem. “A little dab’l do ya” doesn’t apply to duck-tails. More like 1/4th of a tube’l do ya to get that sticky looking shine. Smelled good though.

Then I switched to “Groom ‘n Clean”. Didn’t know what the clean part really meant until I got into the shower after gym in Jr. High and the guys informed me that my hair had a bunch of suds in it.
Duck-tails cool. Suds in Duck-tails, not cool.

 

[Connie Bennett]

Emeraude Perfume

Dippity Do Hair Gel

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I remember the drugstore fragrances, like Coty and Fabergé. AquaNet hairspray, Cover Girl and Mabelline cosmetics. Yardley of London. Oil of Olay.

Guys wearing Brut and English Leather cologne.

 

[Mary Robi]

Mom wore Elizabeth Arden's Blue Grass. I was partial to Tigress or Tabu. I can remember that someone gave me a big bottle of Evening in Paris one year for Christmas and I almost gagged.

Dove or Lifebuoy soap. Early on, deodorant that came in a jar and was either cream or liquid with little circles of gauze to use to apply it. Later, it was so great to discover roll-on deodorant.

Dippity-Do or Dep hair goo to set your curls. Sleeping in those awful brush rollers so you'd look good in the morning.

Remember Tangee lipstick? It came in neon colors....neon red, neon pink, neon coral or white. You could get the kind that you had to push up with your thumb for 19 cents or the twist kind for 29 cents.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

When I was little, my mom would tie my hair in scraps of cloths/rags to make it be curly. Then in the morning the untied the rag curlers and saved them for the next night. They were soft cloth and easy for me to have to sleep with at night. Did anyone else have to have their hair curled that way, and did you have to learn how to curtsy properly ?

I think that I had some lipstick when I was a teenager, but I don’t remember wearing any other kind of makeup until after I was grown up and married. Perfume was fine though.
I do remember the mascara that was dry in a cake and yo had a little brush to apply it, before they had tubes of mascara. Even though there were store brands, all facial tissue was called “Kleenex”, and not anything else.

 

[Connie Bennett]

When I was little, my mom would tie my hair in scraps of cloths/rags to make it be curly. Then in the morning the untied the rag curlers and saved them for the next night. They were soft cloth and easy for me to have to sleep with at night. Did anyone else have to have their hair curled that way, and did you have to learn how to curtsy properly ?

I forgot about the cloth hair curling rags. I only got curled for special occasions. Being raised on a dairy farm, a pony tail was standard dress for my hair.

No curtsying, but I did have to learn how to sit properly on a couch or chair if we went visiting— because I had to wear a dress.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Topaz and Charlie perfumes for the ladies. Jade East and Hai Karate colognes for men. Shampoo was the original Herbal Essence. It was very different from the Herbal Essence Shampoo sold in the store today.

I remember my mother buying powdered laundry soap that had water glasses, utensils, and maybe other things that came in them.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Topaz and Charlie perfumes for the ladies. Jade East and Hai Karate colognes for men. Shampoo was the original Herbal Essence. It was very different from the Herbal Essence Shampoo sold in the store today.

I remember my mother buying powdered laundry soap that had water glasses, utensils, and maybe other things that came in them.

That is something that lot of products did back then, was give away free items like cups and glasses. We had some beautiful gold iridescent coffee cups that I think came in the oatmeal containers. There were little juice glasses with flowers on them and they came with some kind of jam originally.
All of the cereal had some kind of toys in it, or some kind of puzzle. The gas stations offered whole sets of dishes, piece by piece each week, when you filled up your car with fuel.

 

[Lois E. Winters]

Lemon-Up was my go-to shampoo when I was a teenager. I remember my mother buying oil cloth to cover our kitchen table and an all-purpose table for our sun porch. There was always enough for us to cover our school books which we loved.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I forgot about the cloth hair curling rags. I only got curled for special occasions. Being raised on a dairy farm, a pony tail was standard dress for my hair.

No curtsying, but I did have to learn how to sit properly on a couch or chair if we went visiting— because I had to wear a dress.

No hair curling for me, either. I either had a pony tail or braids so tight I looked Asian. I do recall one unfortunate episode with a "Tonette" home permanent that was a disaster. After that my mother just let my hair be straight.

No curtsying, either. I was taught "yes ma'am, no sir" and table manners. Manners were a big thing to my family.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Remember those electric hot hair rollers? They were heavy on the head.
Surfer cross's. My brother use to wear one as did every boy in school did, I think.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Remember those electric hot hair rollers? They were heavy on the head.
Surfer cross's. My brother use to wear one as did every boy in school did, I think.

I still have some electric rollers back in the recesses of the bathroom linen closet.

 

[Marie Miller]

Topaz and Charlie perfumes for the ladies. Jade East and Hai Karate colognes for men. Shampoo was the original Herbal Essence. It was very different from the Herbal Essence Shampoo sold in the store today.

I remember my mother buying powdered laundry soap that had water glasses, utensils, and maybe other things that came in them.

Grandmother was in a system that sold laundry soap powder in plastic bags in bags made of bath towels. Garish one - pink and purple lime green and orange, … . My first present after I moved out were four each bath sheets, towels, hand towels in jewel tones. Now I still swap out towels on an annual basis.