Does anyone remember?

[4getmenot]

Reading the shampoo post I starting wondering if there was conditioner when I was younger. I dont remember mum washing my hair with it, just shampoo. And I'm sure that the combing of my hair wouldnt have been as painful as I remember? Was it just coz I was a child or was conditioner not about then? (about 25 years ago) I also remember going swimming with the school and I'd forgot my shampoo and gave me some of hers and it was 2 in one. First time I's used conditioner.

[mike11111]

Did you live in a cardboard box, like what I did? My father used to give us all a good belting to warm us up because we were too poor to afford coal.

[mrs_overall]

That reminds me of the time a younger sibling was hauled out of the bath and I was instructed to get in (the same water). I protested to my mum I could see a brown lump in the water.
There were 10 of us kids and her patience was short so she picked me up and dumped me in the bath.
i can still feel the squidgyness as I landed on and squashed the lump of poo. Urgh!

[mike11111]

Tends to put Bovril and milk somewhat into perspective, non?

[mrs_overall]

Mais oui!

[mike11111]

Bt the way, bath night for me consisted of hot water, a bar of Lifebuoy soap and a scrubbing brush, wielded vigourously by my mother. Wonder if I could claim compensation.

[waterboatman]

We had to stand out in the rain and pass the soap around.

[mike11111]

Sheer luxury that. At least no scrubbing brush. I'm still picking bristles out of my tender regions to this day.

[waterboatman]

It was fine when it was raining (?) When it wasn't it was the horse trough.

[albaqwerty]

anyone remember the tin bath in front of a coal fire?

[mike11111]

Tin bath? Coal fire? Typical rich kid!

[waterboatman]

No, nothing that luxurious! We always lived in army married quarters so always had a 'proper' bathroom.

[albaqwerty]

roflmao

nice one mike :D

[sammmo]

tin bath in front of a fire.. that would have been shear luxury.. ours was in a out house that had an old Copper in to warm up the water in..mum used to scoop the water from the copper to the bath in an old saucepan which she used to use to cook the spuds in.. when the water got scummy she used to scoop the scum off with the saucepan and chuck it out of the window.

[LoftyLottie]

Vosene Shampoo or washing up liquid for me as a child and salt when we ran out of toothpaste. Conditioner is a fairly recent invention. Even hairdressers never used conditioner or even offered you a choice of shampoos. I had waist length hair, worn in plaits mostly and I can still remember my eyes running when my hair got combed after a hair wash.

[naomi24]

A friend used to wash her hair once a week in a paste made of beaten egg and Daz washing powder. Her hair was absolutely beautiful. Having said that, for all I know she might be bald by now. :o)

[horselady]

I worked in Boots when I left school in 1965 and remember the first conditioners that came on the market, one was called Tame and the other Cream Silk. We thought they were wonderful at the time. Those were the days of black, heavy eye-liner, pale, pale lipstick and very backcombed hair!

[LoftyLottie]

I remember those days well Horselady!! Don't forget the sugared petticoats!!

[horselady]

And the jeans that we sat in a cold bath to tighten them as much as we could, or sometimes my mum would literally sew me into them!

[LoftyLottie]

Yep. Also I remember putting my panama school hat in a bath of cold water with the elastic over the top to make it into a stetsun - we wore them hanging down the back of our neck!! Early sixties?

[horselady]

Yep-used to do that too! Gawd, to think I sometimes look at youngsters wondering what they think they look like!!!