Favorite shampoos and bath products from the Past...

White rain

Crazy foam!

Prell Shampoo , old Zest soap, Vidal Sassoon products

Flex shampoo, nature born apricot shampoo, tickle under arm roll on deodorant.

agree shampoo, rave shampoo

Body on tap!

Tickle roll on brings back big pink memories.

Short n sassy!

Lustre Creme - used by four out of five top movie stars!

Thanks, R9. I haven't thought about Lustre Creme in decades. It's what Mom used.

FOHO, for oily hair only. Such glam commercial about greasy bitches

OP - My mother used Breck shampoo in the 70s.

R3 I buy the super size packages of Zest soap - I remember using it as a kid in the 60s (I don't think the scent has changed at all)

In the 70s, I can't remember where I found this product but as a 20 something I used to buy 6 bottles at a time. It was a silky, silvery, perfect and I do mean perfect moisturizing and cleansing shampoo. It was marketed as containing "placenta" which must have been very risqué even during the late 70s - early 80s. One day, I couldn't find it. Gone. It was in a plastic transparent bottle with a purple cap and had an amazing scent, to boot.

R1 White Rain says something to me. Was it a good product? Nice scent?

There is another shampoo which had a pineapple or Pina colada scent. It was extremely popular (expensive but top quality) in the 80s. Can't remember the brand name. Used to be sold in hair salons not so much drugstore.

White Rain is still around

Halo shampoo

Drene shampoo (what a stupid name for a shampoo!)

Fitch products

I hear a lot of commercials for these on old radio shows.

Dippity Do! OMG I used LOVE the way it smelled! And it was pretty and PINK!

Agree -- escape the greasies with agree!

And of course there's Tame.

Ooooooooooo, I loved the way Tame smelled.

Sun In

Body on Tap

Faberge Wheat germ oil and honey shampoo

Natures gate , body on tap , Jergans body lotion , Jean Nate body splash .

I used that so-called "placenta" product R12. I especially liked hot oil treatments in small tubes that you heated, then twisted the top off and put in your hair after shampooing, then rinsed out And I loved the scent of Herbal Essence shampoo.

V05 Hot Oil Treatments in the 1970's made my hair feel so healthy.

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

Yes, R9. LustreCreme even works with "water as hard as a gangster's heart"!

Yucca Dew Shampoo.

And I loved McClean toothpaste!

When I was a kid, my mom used to use coconut oil from real coconuts on my hair. She'd get a coconut, whack it, scrape the inside for sweets and use the oil for a conditioner. We used Prell to shampoo our hair.

Silkience shampoo

I used placenta too, got it from F&M.

My 70 year-old uncle was in the hospital last week and White Rain hair spray exists. He sent me to a crazy dollar store to get it.

Mr. Bubbles

Herbal Essence should reissue their shampoo with the original scent. People on eBay have been known to pay $75 per bottle of oldstock.

Does anyone remember those soaps that were pastel colored, came in a fancy apothecary-type jar, and were like the texture of baked Alaska? They crushed in one's hand and then lathered up with water.

I wish I could find a pic of them. I loved those soaps!

I used to love Coast deodorant soap. It's still around but no longer made by the same company and doesn't smell the same or lather as well. Plus the bars all have a big chunk out of them now so you get less soap per bar.

r29 is Dial.

We used Lifebuoy soap.

I know it's a picture of Dial but Coast does the same thing, carving a big chunk out of the bar so you get less and the bar only lasts a couple showers.

Jhirmack shampoos and conditioners, great scent. Camay soap.

Final Net hairspray

I thought the chunk was there to make it fit in your hand better.

Jhirmack, Clairol Herbal Essence, Born Free.

I feel like R27's story would be an interesting thread.

OMG, Farrah Fawcett shampoo smelled awesome. I've never found anything to come close to that sublime scent, at least in shampoos.

Vidal Sassoon shampoo. If you don't look good, we don't look good!

OMG, Jhirmack. I was trying to think of that name.

r38. i bought farrah fawcett shampoo by the case from a local pharmacy in my town. i loved that shit to death as an 8 yr old boy.

"Gee, Your Ass Smells Like Cookies!" soap and anal douche.

Prell shampoo is still in stores. I've seen it. It's a harsh, detergent shampoo but it seems to be a men's favorite.

I miss Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo, original formula. It emerald green and it smelled so damn good. I wonder why they stopped making it? A lot of people miss it.

Love Affair strawberry douche

First BF was a DIMENSION shampoo guy.

that dimension shampoo was pure detergent. it stripped the shit out of my 80's hair.

i wouldn't use dimension shampoo on my ass hair let alone the hair on my head!

Prell

When you can't shampoo...

My sister had a perfume, Geminesse. I loved it, used to spray a bit on my sneakers. I don't think you can get it anymore and I'm not even sure where she used to buy it in the 80s.

Never was a "well smell you!" more deserved...

R50, interesting blog post about your scent below:

Swan Soap

Jean Naté

Thanks for that r51. Interesting read. It's obviously popular, I wonder why they don't bring it back?

Canthrox

Protein 21 shampoo. It was supposed to "mend" split ends in your hair. It went to trial, got taken off the market.

I'm in the Vidal Sassoon camp. Those products smelled like a combination of almond & cherry. They smelled so delicious, as a kid I wished I could eat them.

All my aunts had cold cream and I was fascinated by the jar. There were 3 ladies heads together (blonde, brunette & redhead) placed together in a weird triangle. I could never decide who was the prettiest.

Agree, faberge organics, gee your hair smells terrific, pert.

Jean Nate stunk out loud. I worked for their ad agency BITD. We would NOT open the bottles.

R52 They have commercials for Swan Soap all the time on some of the old-time radio shows I listen to. I gather it was Lever Bros. (now Unilever) answer to Ivory. But what I don't understand is that apparently people used it both to bathe and to wash dishes! Was this a common practice in the '40s and before? I can't imagine using bar soap to wash dishes.

Someone needs to invent a shampoo or fragrance that duplicates the scent of freshly-baked cookies! It will disrupt everyone's gaydar!

[quote]Someone needs to invent a shampoo or fragrance that duplicates the scent of freshly-baked cookies! It will disrupt everyone's gaydar!

Orgnx [no, that's not a typo] Coconut & Macadamia Oil smells like vanilla icing, seriously.

The first time I used it, I actually gagged, it was so strong and sweet. But now I really like it!

Lemon Up - with the lemon on the cap. It would lighten my hair(real lemon juice?), and since I was blond as a child, I liked the lighter tone this shampoo gave me.

r61, Philosophy makes a shampoo/bodywash that smells like cookies!

Crabtree & Evelyn Birch Shampoo, which was discontinued years ago, was the favorite for me and my husband. It worked well, not too "stripping" but it was the fragrance that was the real attraction. Clean, woodsy, never cloying or overpowering. When we found out it was going to disappear we scrounged through every C&E shop we could find. At one place we just missed getting a dozen bottles, another like-minded customer had scooped us. Grrrr.......

I used to love Crabtree & Evelyn

Pert made my scalp itch so bad I thought I had lice

I liked Paul Mitchell's VaVoom hair thickening treatment. It disappeared and then Matrix came out with something called VaVoom but it wasn't the same.

Prell. And it's still around. Excellent shampoo and it smells terrific.

Alberto VO5

Semodex Shampoo by Nioxin.

Hairdressers tell clients to use Prell to fade hair dye that is a bit too dark or intense. It is very harsh on the hair.

No love for Hälsa shampoo?

Any one remember "Summer Blond" a hair lightener to "help" the sun streak your hair. Young, hot, very blond pre stardom NIck Nolte was on the package with his blue chambray shirt unbuttoned. Sigh. Oh, yeah, there was some blond model chick too...

[R72] You can use any shampoo to lighten a dye job that is too dark. It's called a shampoo cap. You just suds it up and let it sit on your hair for about 10 minutes then rinse. Repeat if necessary.

r70 they still make that...

Anything from Queen Helene!

Take me away, Calgon!

Goldwell and Mastey hair products from the mid-eighties to mid-nineties. Tenax hair gel was a favourite as well back then.