Tide Marks - Yuk - Page 2

Doug · 04-11-2005, 13:26

Mucky pup, you need one of those little hand showers just to wash the grime away.

Sara · 04-11-2005, 20:52

Remember telling kids that when i was younger we'd never had a shower and they just couldn't believe it. Then i told them that when we did get a shower in the late 70s we had to wash with soap, never had shower gel. They couldn't believe it. Carbolic soap, wonder what has happened to that and if you can still buy it.

Doug · 04-11-2005, 20:56

Just for you Sara. Looks a lot nicer than it use to in our day.............

http://www.carbolicsoap.com/

Sara · 04-11-2005, 21:02

Thanks Doug, sure i got a smell of carbolic when i looked on that site Doug. Noticed coal tar soap as well, forgot all about that.

Doug · 04-11-2005, 21:05

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Originally Posted by Sara

Thanks Doug, sure i got a smell of carbolic when i looked on that site Doug. Noticed coal tar soap as well, forgot all about that.

I know, strange isn't it? I still use Wrights Coal Tar occasionally. I don't know if it’s the memories or the muck that makes me do it, but I love the smell still...

mez · 04-11-2005, 22:43

o strewth we used to have the red carbolic block ....then we started buying cammay ,,,,,,,can anyone remember that one .

Doug · 04-11-2005, 22:47

Me! Me! and fairy Green soap in a box of two, big green blocks, or was that just that I had little hands. I remember Cammay too......

ANNE · 04-11-2005, 23:01

When we went on to posh soap.
My Nanna used to use cammay and Mum used to use Lifebouy.
If we didn't have a propper wash when we were kids.
Then we would be threatned with the vim nt scrubbing brush.

Doug · 04-11-2005, 23:21

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Originally Posted by ANNE

If we didn't have a propper wash when we were kids.
Then we would be threatned with the vim nt scrubbing brush.

During a stint in Blackpool my nan made me have a bath with a box of Tide, I was still picking bits of Bluey-white grains out of my bits and bobs long after the rash had disappeared............I kid you not.

Doug · 04-11-2005, 23:25

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Originally Posted by ANNE

When we went on to posh soap.
My Nanna used to use cammay and Mum used to use Lifebouy.

For years we had to endure those packs of cheap soap from Tesco’s. Do you remember them, they came in a pack of five multi-coloured naff scented stuff that made you itch.

grannyclaret · 04-11-2005, 23:37

we used to have wrights coal tar soap as well..then we went onto pears transparent soap... i dont know if we were mean but when the pears soap got to its last legs it was slotted into a new block so that every last bit was used ,
i still do that now.old habbits die hard