Germolene

[douglas9401]

When and why did they change Germolene from a pink ointment with a pleasant smell and a mild sting when applied to the odourless white stuff in a nondescript tube as available now?

Ta.

[gingejbee]

When? I don't know....Why? Time moves on and things change (or get changed) - not always for the better. I'd guess that the original manufacturer was taken-over and the new owners thought it was old-fashioned.

[EcclesCake]

That is one of my childhood memories!

As an adult I associate Germolene as one of the aromas that you find in Malt Whisky.

How can they rip up my childhood and and asking notes????

[EcclesCake]

^^^ Tasting notes

[vakayu]

I didn't know they had douglas I must check the date on mine,it was a unique smell,my late father used to swear by it as a sort of cure-all.

[Eve]

I can still smell the distinctive smell in it, though it isn't quite as strong as it used to be and it's a bit more cream like.

They are recent purchases too as I've been using a fair bit of it and from different places, pharmacy and chemists.

It has changed though, I quite like the smell, it's quite a nice comforting making things better smell :) It has been close in sniffing distance though as I've been using it on a breast abscess and then an allergic reaction to some tape I was holding a dressing on with, which took chunks out of my skin! :(

[jno]

a while back, apparently - this from 2010:

http://www.intelligentanswers.co.uk/index.php?topic=2465.0

[douglas9401]

Mystery solved, there are now two versions.

Many thanks for your replies. :)

[zebo]

I'm gagging, a smell from my childhood that I hated, it was associated with bad things happening!