Ok who remembers the White Tide Man?

[Bobbisox]

or the OMO bloke who knocked at the door and if you had a box of the stuff to show him, you got a quid or something ridiculous....

[Bobbisox]

cheers marval, jacks done this and thats not what I meant

[Buenchico]

The White Tide Man was around in 1959, rivalling Surf's Mrs Bradshaw. So you're giving your age away a bit, Bobbi ;-)

[Bobbisox]

arhhhhh Thank you Chris I was starting to think I had dreamt it..lol

[boxtops]

Yep, you had to look under your sink (or in the scullery in those days) and if you could show him a box of OMO or whatever, you got a prize. (and they videod you, as I recall, for the TV ad!)

[boxtops]

also - someone's Mum's not using Persil - one shiny child in a white top, a more miserable one in slightly grey one

[Bobbisox]

thats right boxy, sorry jack you must have been a babe pet

[askyourgran]

I remember the Omo and the White Tide man, there was Rinso and Surf washing powder too. I think we used Fairy Soap for washing and bathing, nothing fancy in those days and I don't remember washing my hair with shampoo either.

[Bobbisox]

no it was soap for the hair ayg, but it was always shiny...

[boxtops]

My grandma always used Pears soap, I was impressed because you could see through it.

[Bobbisox]

I remember washing my hair in soap powder to get the Bellaire laquer out, then in supersoft shampoo in the little blue sachet...

[boxtops]

I remember the little blue paper of salt in Smiths Crisps, in the days before Walkers ruled the world.

[Bobbisox]

and frozen jubblys that you sucked until they went white...