Pond's Cold Cream - a childhood memory

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Licorice wands

The Newberry fruits are not the original ones but a modern take on them with flavours mixed together and very very disappointing. I bought some of the original type last year. I adored them and my daughter is also a fan. I used to get a box at Christmas as a child and nibble the jelly off first before popping the sugar shell with liquid centre in - heaven! The orange & lemon slices were a Christmas tradition too and it was my job to cut some into little wedges to decorate the trifle. Mum had a tiny bottle of Evening in Paris too which dad had bought her. L'aimant was her favourite perfume, seeing a bottle can reduce me to tears.

Anyone remember the wooden boxes of whole crystalized fruits ? A Christmas treat along with the orange and lemon slices and figs.

Eau de nil paint in the back kitchen. ( bluey/green )

You can still buy it in Savers and probably elsewhere. My nan’s lovely skin was all down to ponds cold cream, or so she claimed.

What was the product that used to have a moulded bee on the top, my mum used that all the time

Think it was Yardley skin food . I remember my Mum used with a bee design on the lid

Diggingdoris - loved your message! By coincidence, my dear Mum was called Doris!! x

Grandma had a little round cardboard box of rouge on her dressing table - Bourjois. It was the only make-up she used. I have no idea if she used moisturiser but she had a lovely soft skin.

I have a very small bottle of Californian Poppy, the first present my father gave my mother.

I used to get chilblains and had Snowfire. The Poor Clare Sisters who went barefoot inside also used Snowfire.

I remember my grandma using pond's cold cream and vanishing cream, I maybe wrong but I seam to recall three jars of Pond's on her dressing table, different coloured tops, blue, pink and green, not sure what the third jar contained.

I remember the hand cream 'Pacquins' which my Mum used constantly. She would never use any other. It came in a white glass jar with a red label I think. It's discontinued now but sometimes when I use other hand creams, it smells similar and I am transported back to my childhood!

Have used Ponds Cold Cream since I was a teenager ( a very long time ago!) and still do to this day. It is still available in some Boots branches and also Superdrug. You can also buy it from eBay. It is the very best night cream and I always use it for removing makeup.

Anyone remember Max Factor block mascara? Not the most hygienic way to apply mascara...
I used to buy 4711 and can also remember Lily of the Valley.

Germolene is my old favourite no longer made. Always had a tiny bit in old eyeshadow box for papercuts or quick lipstick!

There is a new 4711 called Nouveau but hard to find, slight citrus scent.

I bought some Nivea cream, and as soon as I peeled back the silver foil, the smell took me straight back to my childhood.
It was such a strong experience it quite shook me, but in a lovely way.

Yes my mother used Ponds cold cream. Also 4711, Californian Poppy and Tweed. I've seen Newbury Fruits in B&M too, we always bought them for DH's mother, she passed away a year ago. Both my father and Fil loved Liquorice Allsorts. Hamlet cigars in a little square packet, my father smoked them at Christmas.
What a lovely thread annodomini

jillyJo, I too use Ponds cold cream, it’s wonderful both as a moisturiser, cleanser and it even takes off waterproof mascara.
My daughter now brings me large jars of it from America as she flies long haul. I haven’t seen the large size here.
My aunt had Tabu talcum powder and I came across that not so long ago. My vintage credentials are first rate!

I remember the dreaded Camphorated Oil! Mum used it for every childhood ailment. Toothache (on the jaw, not inside the mouth), earache, chilblains, corns - rubbed on the throat and chest for a cold, etc. She would be devastated to learn that it's not easily bought any more. Still available on Ebay in tiny bottles of the 'Essential Oils' sort - not like Mum's industrial-size big brown bottle!

My grandma used to use Lactocalamine on her face as a moisturiser. It had a beautiful smell and I remember that she had lovely skin.
My mother used Paquins hand lotion in an oval glass bottle.

Vitapoint is still available too!

Does anyone remember Aqua Manda perfume? My mum used that, it smelled lovely.

Yes Desdemona, I remember Aqua Manda and the lemon fragrance Aqua Citra.

The reference to the perfume “Evening in Paris” took me back nearly 50 years to when I was a young teacher in a comprehensive school. The Senior Mistress berated one of the older girls for wearing too much perfume. When asked what it was, she replied,
“Evening in Paris.”
to which the S.M retorted,
“Well, this is morning in Hednesford. Don’t wear it to school again!”
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Aqua Manda was the perfume I was trying to remember, I used wear it a teenager. The other perfume I used to wear was Je Riviene.
I remember the camphor rings that looked like large polos, my Nan made me wear one on a piece of tape round my neck all winter to ward off colds.

I remember the smell of the home perm lotion - it really ponged!

My mum used Nivea cream and went to bed plastered it in. A 15 year old me brought my bf and another couple home one evening after youth club for coffee and to listen to radio Luxembourg (we were very sophisticated!) when mother appeared in the kitchen doorway clad in a long, flannelette nightie, face plastered in Nivea and with tiny, tight curlers in her hair! Oh the shame ...