Pond's Cold Cream - a childhood memory

My Mum always had ponds cold cream and used it every day. She was a natural red head with a porcelain complexion so she hardly wore anything else on her face.

Snowfire was invented by nuns to cope with their sore knees. Still available and still very effective for split heels.

I still have a box of Max Factor Creme Puff my Mother left in her makeup drawer, we open it sometimes to smell it, also rouge in the little blue box,,,she was very beautiful with no effort, she had a mane of sparkling silver hair and lovely skin, I miss her so much

I was very much into amateur dramatics at school and we always used to use Pond's cold cream to remove grease paint.

Newberry Fruits! Even though I was only 3 at the time I remember well that my brother had just been born and my dad brought into the ward a box of Newberry Fruits for my mum. I sat on her bed and ate the lot while they were busy talking.

My Mum loved Astral cream. To my undying chagrin, one birthday I totted up my cash and bought her THREE pots for her birthday. All I could afford. How unimaginative was I?!! Of course, like all loving Mums, she waxed lyrical whereas I kinda......cringe. Still think of the occasion.

Gilly1952 all my memories are the same as yours. 4711 and Evening in Paris, mascara with spit, and little pots of rouge. Maybe my Mum had a second family and we are sisters!

My mum used Anne French Lotion to remove her make up. My dad liked the orange and lemon slices jellies and my daughter still buys a box every christmas in his memory so now the grandchildren love them.

Tut tut Kim19 stock piling the Astral cream back then!

Oh I absolutely adored Newberry Fruits. I got quite excited to read here that they were still available but disappointed to read that they are selling something inferior under the same name.
Painter45, my mum always used Max Factor Creme Puff too but she moisturised with Nivea first. Her skin was lovely right until she died at age 99.

Oooh Twopence .... the smell of greasepaint!!

I use it regularly & Boots is always running out of it!

jaylucy Was the hand cream Cremolia?

missdeke and jaylucy I think the hand cream was Cremolia. My mum used it all the time and I think the smell was because it had glycerine and rosewater in it. I know my sister and I used to lick it as it was so sweet - we survived!

My Mum had a round, white pottery jar of Yardley's cream with a pink lid embossed with (I think) a butterfly. It smelt gorgeous and I used to love sniffing her skin!

My Mother wore so little makeup that it was hardly worth the effort; a tiny fluff of Max Factor 'Creme Puff' on her nose, from a compact, and a delicate application of Yardley's 'That Pink'; which was then blotted about three times and vanished without trace. She always felt very daring when 'made up'.
I don't know if either cosmetic is still around. I loved, and still do, Coty L'Aiment, which on a good day in a prevailing wind can be easily mistaken for Chanel Number 5 - which I am also addicted to. My Dad and OH also loved Newberry fruits, and my DD buys her Dad a box each Christmas.

I've said this before about the Pond's Vanishing cream as dad used to tell mum to " put plenty on,lass " Mum used both.

When I was a teenager I used to wear Tramp perfume. I loved smell and the advert with the care free blonde riding a bike looking so cool. It was only recently when the same perfume was mentioned on a TV program naming disastrous marketing ideas when I realized the true meaning of tramp!

Norman Hartnell In Love perfume! I wore that on my honeymoon.

This is a lovely thread. My granny had beautiful skin and used Anne French Milk for cleansing.

There could not have been much choice then, my mother used Ponds vanishing cream, 4711 cologne and Max Factor make up.

We also had Newberry fruits at christmas, I never liked them nor those orange and lemon jelly slices.

My mother used Ponds products and so did I when I first went out to work. There was Melrose for rough hands to use after doing the washing up in hot soda water. When I first wore make up the mascara was solid in a little box and had be moistened. As well as Evening in Paris perfume there was Phil Nana and Poppy. You can still get 4711 on Amazon.

4711..... immediately brings back memories of my Nan and mum

In 1973 I worked in the holidays at the Tobler Meltis factory which made and packed Newberry Fruits and the staff could buy a giant bag of misshapes for pennies. Wonderful! When I was pregnant I had a craving for Newberry Fruits and had to track them down to buy a box.

The Newberry fruits they sell now are called Jewels; and yes, they have a solid centre. The fig sweets were Badgers Chinese Figs; we always had a box at Christmas, and I still miss them.