As you can see on these photos, it mentions that it is a floating soap.
Another vintage soap I remember well, and that is still sold today, is Ivory. What I don't remember, though, is that it was also used to hand wash clothes in its bar form...as this ad illustrates.
Another bar soap I remember well is Sweetheart. Here is a vintage photo of this one.
And last but not least for today on the topic of vintage soap is Swan. I don't remember it as well as the others but seeing this photo reminded me of it. As you will see in the photo, it claims to be a floating soap!
Thank you all so much for visiting me here, and please feel free to share your own memories and thoughts by clicking on the "comments" button. Have a fantastic day!
Sweetheart soap and another soap named CASHMERE BOUQUET were two soaps that had a very strong perfumed smell. In Girl Scouts & perhaps 4H, too, we would use these soaps to make craft projects. A piece of colored yard goods netting, some hat pins with decorative heads & some pretty ribbon was all that was required to make a pretty free standing fish, Most ladies would display them on the top of toilet tanks. They were decorative & retained their scent for a LONG time!
ReplyDeleteDear Wren, thank you for visiting me today and leaving a lovely comment. I read your profile and think you are a wonderful, optimistic and positive lady with what you have overcome! I also think your premise for your unique blog is fresh and different! I love that you take something from the past and tell a story! I hope to visit often and get new insight from simple things from our past. N.xo
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Hi Kim,
Wow, I had forgotten all about Cashmere Bouquet! Thanks for sharing that and for your comments here.
Hi Wren
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind comment.
Hey, there's only a couple of months between our ages! But I had a far easier time of it than you've had. Keep up the blog, it's therapeutic as well as informative...
All the best
Geoff, NB Seyella, UK
I love the sweetheart soap packaging! Really cute!
ReplyDeleteDo you remember a bar soap that was sold throughout the 60s into the 80s with a highly perfumed scent? I cannot think of the name of it, but it had a floral baby powder scent that was really dramatic. I'm leaning towards Woodbury, but I'm not sure it was manufactured into the 1980s. Where I lived it was readily available at the grocery store stocked with Cashmere Bouquet, Jergens and the others.
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DeleteI remember the fragrance...now that you mention it, but no the name of it. Thanks for your comment.
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