Pond's Cold Cream - a childhood memory

Tut tut Kim19 stock piling the Astral cream back then!

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My Mum had a very sensitive skin and Innoxa cream was the only cream she could use. I bought some 4711 a couple of years ago in the 4711 shop in Cologne!

My mother used to swear by Astral cream for her face, found it less greasy than Nivea.
You can still get it, and it’s not expensive. I still like it as a richer body moisturiser when my skin feels very dry.

Little red box of block mascara - my mum used to spit on the brush to moisten it before rubbing it into the black stuff! I remember a little round box containing a block of rouge - was it called “Bourgoise” or something similar? Mum had a little bottle of Evening in Paris and also some Tweed - anyone remember that. Wasn’t life simple then?

Ponds Vanishing cream had a a large 'v' on the bottle or is that jus a false cream. My lovely older sister, long gone, used to smell of ponds cold cream

Boots used to sell big jars of cold cream that smelt the same.
I also remember the smell (and hate it) of Tweed perfume, that I think you can still buy
My mum always used to use Nivea in a blue tin(you can still get it)
I can also remember my nan using a hand cream that was in a glass jar that had a particular scent but can't remember the name of it.

I had a Saturday job in a chemist's when I was at school, and many of the products mentioned bring back fond memories.

She always used a type of rouge on her cheeks in a little blue round box. Purplepixie - I think the brand was Bourjois.

When I was a teenager I used to use little pots of Astral cream. I saw some recently, having long forgotten about it, so bought it and the fragrance instantly took me back to the youth club in the 1960s.

"They might have had the same name but they were just jellies ,individually wrapped no crispy sugar shell inside with liquid."
One of my children brought me some Newberry Fruits - I found it quite difficult to tell them they were nothing like the old ones even if the box was the same.

I remember as a child watching my mum rubbing in Ponds cold cream to take her makeup off at night, I loved the smell too. She used to use Max Factor Creme Puff powder and that also had a particular smell

What memories, my mom always used Ponds vanishing cream, if I close my eyes I can smell it.
Her skin was lovely, her scent was lavender water.
Think if ponds vanishing cream still about might just try some, mom didn't have half the wrinkles I have today.
Jo.

My mam always used Ponds cold cream and I used to love the smell. She always used a type of rouge on her cheeks in a little blue round box. Cote le'aimant perfume was her favourite as well as Vanderbilt.

Ponds Cold Cream reminds me of my Mum, that and Coty Loose Powder in a white and brown box. In a junk shop recently I found a box of Coty powder for sale. It was pretty much empty but as soon as I opened it the scent just brought the memories of my Mum back. I bought it for a silly price and open it up occasionally to have a sniff.

We used to have Newberry Fruits every Christmas. They were my favourites with the lovely sugary crust and the liquid middles. The best one was the green one which tasted of greengages. We also had a box of fig sweets, flat and sugary in a round box, each fig in a petal shape around a central one so that it looked like a flower. I can't remember the brand.

Oh [paddyanne] you saying about Newberry fruits brings back so many happy memories. My dear father used to work for the company that made those and would bring home boxes of them for us. Didn’t think anyone remembered them, don’t think anyone makes anything like those now.

But, they are only £3!!!

paddyanne the ones mentioned by momb in Sainsbury's have no crunch either- a big disappointment!