The answer lies….in the kitchen cupboard!

Swarfega is a hand cleaner. You can still buy it.

LovesBach

Gin not 'Swarfega' by any chance? That name has just leapt up from the past.

I hated the smell of the original Swarfega. I think they improved it with an orange smell but by then I’d banned it from the kitchen!

Still love the smell of swafega….my dad always had a tin in his shed …shift a thing could Swafega!

Gosh you learn something every day. I have never heard of frylight so just had to google it as you all seem to know what it is.

Same here, could I find the WD40 to oil my hedge trimmer, could I heck so I just stuck them back in the garage. I honestly do not know where my things vanish to. After my husband died I bought lots of massive storage trunks and labelled every single one of them with what the contents were, the trouble now is that the one is want is at the back of all the others and I can't get to it. I complete cleared the garage out so I could line all the boxes against the garage wall instead of stacking them on top of each other, what did our son do, he decided to park one of his classic cars (he collects them) in the garage so he stacked all the boxes on top of each other. I will admit I have sometimes bought an item I could not find in my storage boxes as I could not be bothered searching for it. Lazy me.

My Mum used to wander around with a small can of oil & put it on door hinges,I haven’t thought of that for years,gave me a smile,thanks.

WD40 is not a lubricant. It’s great for freeing up seized parts, but it isn’t oil.

Thx Merlot. I suspect that your "woman . . .less than half the time" would lead men to suggest that SOME women would have taken longer, as they were so scatty that their recipe got accidentally posted to someone, used as a drawer liner, or included in wrapping paper, so they had to re-do the work several times over? Don't we all know some like that (& some men too of course!!).

Elegran: that was hysterical. Laughed out loud and it triggered the dogs barking. Am now having to supress the giggles!!!

I have used frylight on door hinges. Lasted long enough until I got the hinges raised.

I find ordinary rose water which is about £1-70 is a really good , preservative free skin freshener/ Toner as well as used in some recipes