Stormy
A-List Customer
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- 403
- Location
- 460 Laverne Terrace
I still wear Chanel #5. Just can't do without it.
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Do You Still Use "Golden Age" Products?
- Thread starter Brian Sheridan
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Old Mariner
One of the Regulars
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- 260
This sounds more like what mine is like, although I have no Vicks, nor Asprin (I use Tylenol), and have no Ben Gay. I too, use more modern type "natural" toiletries due to reactions with certain chemicals. No cough or cold meds though (I rarely get that so, no use in keeping it.) Lavender oil diluted with Safflower oil (50/50) for cuts, infections, scar healing, any acne.
Most of my healing type stuff is old - herbs [ancient and prehistoric eras], essential oils [ancient], homeopathy [18th century], essences (for example - Bach remedies, although I make my own) - [1920s-1930s], vitamins (although it could depend upon when they were able to create them).
1930artdeco
Practically Family
- Messages
- 671
- Location
- oakland
Fiance just bought me a cook book put out By General Foods in 1932. So I made a lemon Jell-O pie! Ok the Jell-O wasn't period but the ingredients are super simple and not high on the sugar count either.
Mike
Mike
Fifty150
One Too Many
- Messages
- 1,846
- Location
- The Barbary Coast
I drink Old Coke.
Dr. Oetker Baking Powder, Pudding Powder..
Persil detergents
Kaweco and Pelikan Fountain Pens / Inks
Caran d´Ache and Faber Castell Pens
(Players Navy Cut, Nil, Eckstein...cigarettes) when I was still smoking
Erdal Shoe Cream
(Almost) any arbitrarily available German beer brand...
Sarotti Chocolate
Niederegger Marzipan
Hand Tools from Gedore, Hazet, Knipex, Wera, Picard, Peddinghaus...
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Persil detergents
Kaweco and Pelikan Fountain Pens / Inks
Caran d´Ache and Faber Castell Pens
(Players Navy Cut, Nil, Eckstein...cigarettes) when I was still smoking
Erdal Shoe Cream
(Almost) any arbitrarily available German beer brand...
Sarotti Chocolate
Niederegger Marzipan
Hand Tools from Gedore, Hazet, Knipex, Wera, Picard, Peddinghaus...
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Miele White Household Ware
Flott Drill Presses and Powered Machinery
Fein Powered Hand Machinery
Bosch Powered Hand Machinery
Metabo Powered Hand Machinery
Pferd Files
Kirsch Woodwork Tools
WMF Cutlery
Wüsthoff Cutlery
Dick Cutlery
Brockhaus/Heuer Vises
Röhm Chucks
Hugo Boss Clothing
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Flott Drill Presses and Powered Machinery
Fein Powered Hand Machinery
Bosch Powered Hand Machinery
Metabo Powered Hand Machinery
Pferd Files
Kirsch Woodwork Tools
WMF Cutlery
Wüsthoff Cutlery
Dick Cutlery
Brockhaus/Heuer Vises
Röhm Chucks
Hugo Boss Clothing
...
Stanley Doble
Call Me a Cab
- Messages
- 2,808
- Location
- Cobourg
Vitalis, Noxzema shaving cream, Lifebuoy and Ivory soap. You can't get Lifebuoy soap anymore and I haven't seen Vitalis or Noxzema for a while but you can still get Ivory soap.
Nobert
Practically Family
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- 832
- Location
- In the Maine Woods
And Pear's. There's just something weirdly fascinating about transparent soap.
LizzieMaine
Bartender
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- 33,034
- Location
- Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
The Lifebuoy brand has lately resurfaced as a dubious-looking brand of hand sanitizer sold at Wal Mart. Probably won't do too much to stop BEEEEEEEEEEEE-OHHHHHHH.
- Messages
- 12,467
- Location
- Germany
Tüff after shave from Thuringia. Launched in 1946. The bottles changed over the years.
kaiser
A-List Customer
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- 401
- Location
- Germany, NRW, HSK
PrivateEye
One of the Regulars
- Messages
- 154
- Location
- Boston, MA
Pinaud Clubman After-Shave
Gave that fresh from the barber feeling while I was trying to cut my own hair at home during quarantine
Gave that fresh from the barber feeling while I was trying to cut my own hair at home during quarantine
- Messages
- 10,595
- Location
- My mother's basement
I use Barbasol as well, mostly because it’s the cheapest available in the supermarket. I question if it’s the same product they made way back when.
I still have a couple of double edge safety razors somewhere around here. I used to use them regularly.
MissNathalieVintage
Practically Family
- Messages
- 757
- Location
- Chicago
Thayer's Rose Witch Hazel
Spic and Span cleaning powder
Bon Ami
Fels Naptha Laundry bar, this is the best at getting out tough stains and it really does make whites bright without using bleach.
Arm and Hammer Baking Soda
Scott Tissue
Quaker Quick Cooking Oats
Palmer's Lotion, I can't use the coco butter even though I have in the past. I now use their Coconut oil cream lotion. Its the only alcohol free skin cream that is easy to acquire at a shop.
Spic and Span cleaning powder
Bon Ami
Fels Naptha Laundry bar, this is the best at getting out tough stains and it really does make whites bright without using bleach.
Arm and Hammer Baking Soda
Scott Tissue
Quaker Quick Cooking Oats
Palmer's Lotion, I can't use the coco butter even though I have in the past. I now use their Coconut oil cream lotion. Its the only alcohol free skin cream that is easy to acquire at a shop.
„Pit Towels“, as these would be called translated directly. Used by German miners for two centuries when washing/showering after the shift.
The grey and blue plaid towels are closest possible to historical originals. They’re produced on historic weaving looms at an industrial museum weaving mill in Bocholt using original patterns and authentic materials.
Solid as a rock I use these as kitchen towels.
Way less pricey as modern „hommages“ sold at heritage shops like manufactum.de or so you also support the North Rhine Westphalian industrial museum society with any purchase who run quite a number of industrial museums all over the state.
Old time quality at it’s very best.
Cheers
Turnip
The grey and blue plaid towels are closest possible to historical originals. They’re produced on historic weaving looms at an industrial museum weaving mill in Bocholt using original patterns and authentic materials.
Solid as a rock I use these as kitchen towels.
Way less pricey as modern „hommages“ sold at heritage shops like manufactum.de or so you also support the North Rhine Westphalian industrial museum society with any purchase who run quite a number of industrial museums all over the state.
Old time quality at it’s very best.
Cheers
Turnip
sal
One of the Regulars
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- 237
- Location
- my own little slice of heaven
Is there a source for these that I can get from the US?
Should be possible if you’re able to understand German. There’s no exclusion for shipping to US, shipping costs to be agreed, orders from foreign countries by advance payment.
https://textilwerk-bocholt.lwl.org/de/besuch/museumsshop/
https://textilwerk-bocholt.lwl.org/de/besuch/museumsshop/
