Do you remember your mother or grandmother using a bar of green soap for household cleaning? It came up on a post that I was reading, about old homes on Facebook and was recommended for cleaning old quarry tiles. It was a blast from the past as I do remember it being used but no memory of what for other than Granny scrubbing the doorstep everyday. Who scrubs their doorstep? And how often? Do you use this green soap? Any other products that are a blast from the past that we have forgotten about?
Oh yes I do - many years ago I went on a home visit (in my old job) to an old cottage. I can't remember why but I had cause to wash my hands, and she offered me a bar of that green soap - complete with fluff and dog hairs...... happy memories
Not quite the same but it is a nostalgic soap. I seem to remember when I was a kid every year I got a soap animal for Christmas. You’d use it and after it got wet it grew little soap hairs. It didn’t last long but it was cool while it did. I’ve mentioned his before but nobody else seems to have heard of this. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s just a figment of my imagination.m
My Mum used that soap too, a big green block, hers was ‘Fairy’, I’ve no idea what it was used for, but thinking it was probably for scrubbing the kitchen floor tiles, we also had ‘Pears’ hand and body washing soap, which our YS still likes to this day, says it always reminds him of Grandmas home.
Pears soap is lovely Jazzy, I can see the attraction.
If I remember rightly I think the big green soap was rubbed over dirty shirt collars. I suppose it was a good harsh soap, so can imagine it being used on floors too. This particular granny had a lovely old farmhouse with a red tiled old floor, which was wonky.
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Well that’s a coincidence B, because I thought I remembered Mum rubbing Dad’s shirt collars with the Fairy, but then forgot to write it, thanks for reminding me 🙂
Oh yes, shirt collars! I also remember my mum buying me a block and me carving it. I say carving, I have no idea why or what I was doing. Maybe it was an idea from a Blue Peter programme. I do not remember Hairy soap but you did remind me of the Avon, Pretty Peach soap that I got one Christmas. It was in the shape of a peach - surprise, surprise.
I remember the soap animals magggzzz. Not the easiest thing to was with though. We used to use red Catholic soap in the school sinks. My gran used the grate the green soap and add it to the washing. Does anyone remember the blue bags that were added to the sheets wash?
Trisha
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I remember the blue bags Trisha but there again, maybe I’m mixing them up with the little bags of salt that used to be in bags of crisps. Were they blue too?
This post is getting funnier and more nostalgic by the minute
I also remember the little red bars of soap in my first primary school Trisha, the toilets and washroom were outside I wasn't there long, they were building a new modern school and they didn't use the soap there, they had soap dispensers.
There is a lot to be said for being part of a group, and the support and friendship that is gained from this.
LLcc - salt and shake crisps- once opened a packet of those to find all blue bags and no crisps lol
Oh my goodness VW 🤣 total disappointment.
I can remember going to a picnic spot with Mum and Dad, when I was young, they would always drop into the nearby pub for a beer on the way home, they would leave me outside with a drink and a bag of Smiths crisps, anyway there was a glass collector who would come over to me and shove his hand into my crisp bag and help himself, I wasn’t amused 😬
LLcc - salt and shake crisps- once opened a packet of those to find all blue bags and no crisps lol
Oh my Jazzy, they were halcyon days when you could be left outside a pub on your own with a drink and your crisps and still be there when your parents got back
There is a lot to be said for being part of a group, and the support and friendship that is gained from this.