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How about those small glass screw top bottles of cod liver oil and orange juice - teaspoon of each before school ! I think they were supplied free in the early 50's, but I can't remember where my mother went to collect them.

On a totally different tack, remember the red hot poultices around your neck - was it for the mumps ?
 
Lindalou what great memories. Rosehip syrup I used to put in my daughters 'dinky' bottle when she was a baby, very useful in the middle of the night to get her back to sleep.
 
Certainly do! And there was Signal toothpaste with the "mouthwash in the stripes" - or is that still available?

How about Snowfire rub-on for chilblains and burns?

Big Gee
 
I saw 'Snowfire' for chilblains the other day in the chemist, so that's still available Big Gee. I remember a toothpaste called 'Gleam', which I think may have been around in the 1970's.
 
Toothpaste/powder/big round tablet in a tin. I remember it came in a very small tin, I think it was Colgate or maybe Gibbs. The tablet one you had to unwrap before use then drop it in the tin. Oh and whilst we're on teeth, Gibbs SR, don't see that now either.

Carolina. Remember having Fullers Earth pasted around the back of my ears. Hells bells, what was that all about!! :shocked: Viv
 
One of the toothpaste (powder) in a tin was called Selso and was pink in colour - one of my fancies when I was pregnant.
 
Yes I remember Selso Carolina. I think there was a pale blue version too. Just as well you didn't have cravings for Fullers Earth! I think the only powdered toothpaste you get now is for smokers. Its gritty texture's supposed to remove tobacco stains on the teeth. Viv
 
Viv wasnt the smokers one Eurcrymyl or something like that. Oh and course Pepsodent. You wonder where the yellow went when you brushed your teeth with pepsodent.
 
Vivienne, those hard block toothpaste's in tins were made by Gibbs and called dentifrice. These were probably the first toothpaste's around. The tins were different colour's. They must have been a bit unhygeinic though, because everyone rubbed their brush onto the tablet. I think the first dish washing liquid was one called 'Stergene' I was still at school at this time. We had a sample sachet put through the door to try, and on the instruction's it said ' no need to wipe dry' as the dish's would be sparkling if left to drain. Well, I did this and ended up getting a good hiding for being lazy and not drying the dishes. They wouldn't accept my explanation.
 
If I remember correctly we had to get cod liver oil and orange juice from the local baby clinic. you could only have so many bottles at one time. I constantly got told off for drinking the orange juice which was meant for the baby.
 
Carolina, yes remember Euthymol and Pepsodent. Maggs the dentrifice does sound disgusting now you mention it!

On washing up liquid I don't think we had that for a long time. I'm almost certain we used soap powder to wash up with :( That definitely needed you to dry up the dishes with a tea towel!

I was told I was given clinic orange and cod liver oil, but can't remember what it was like. What I do remember was the milkman delivering orange in the same type of bottle as pasteurised milk. The orange was delicious - was the clinic orange the same? Viv.
 
maggs said:
Vivienne, those hard block toothpaste's in tins were made by Gibbs and called dentifrice. These were probably the first toothpaste's around. The tins were different colour's. They must have been a bit unhygeinic though, because everyone rubbed their brush onto the tablet. I think the first dish washing liquid was one called 'Stergene' I was still at school at this time. We had a sample sachet put through the door to try, and on the instruction's it said ' no need to wipe dry' as the dish's would be sparkling if left to drain. Well, I did this and ended up getting a good hiding for being lazy and not drying the dishes. They wouldn't accept my explanation.[/QUOTE

hi maggs..talking toothpastes...our dad used soot when he had nothing better..:rolleyes: i used to ask him how come something so black cleans your teeth...he didnt really have an answer..lol
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Now you mention it Lyn, my dad used salt for brushing, swore by it. Made me feel sick the one time I tried it. Viv
 
I used to use a pink tooth powder, and there was also a 'Tooth Salt' on the market at least till the late 70s. Great after a night on the beer. left your mouth feeling clean and got rid of the taste of fags. but i cant remember what either of them were called.
 
I remember that Mike. I think it was in a metal tin?. Mike H. I hated that chocolate spread and still don't eat a lot of chocolate. My nan said they used to clean their teeth with chimney soot!!!!
 
Hi Viv
I remember the orange from the milkman but that was completely different. I remember now it was called welfare orange guice and it was concentrated - like nothing else I have ever tasted, it was best mixed with water. I was completely hooked on it and continued to buy it when I was grown-up, but when I was pregnant with my first child in 1970 every time I tried to drink it I wanted to throw up - that cured me.
 
G G Jean said:
I remember that Mike. I think it was in a metal tin?. Mike H. I hated that chocolate spread and still don't eat a lot of chocolate. My nan said they used to clean their teeth with chimney soot!!!!
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The one I remember Jean was in a soft tub with like a waxy feel to it, and shaped like an ice cream tub. We use to eat lots of it on sandwiches and my mother used to make those cornflake cakes with it too,I daresay our tastes might have come from the fact that my mother and most of my relatives worked at Cadbury so there was always plenty of Cadbury's waste to be had.
 
I used to take the occasional pinch of snuff! My missus loathed it, and she threw away the last tin I bought (Hedges No 1, I think). Not as foul a habit as chewing tobacco, though...

Big Gee
 
I have visions of the 'olden days' when they used to put the snuff on their first knuckle and sniff it, leaving brownish/orangey marks on their noses and upper lips. Yuk.
 
carolina said:
Big Gee the chewed tobacco woud come with spitoons, surely? lol
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Carolina, when we lived in the USA a few of the old folk (men AND women) chewed baccy, and it was the most revolting habit I ever saw. Someone we knew (A WOMAN!) kept a large coffee tin in her car to use as a spitoon, even when she had passengers! Compared with it, taking snuff is very genteel and refined.

Big Gee
 
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