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Of all the stupid things...now this is keeping me up. Maybe I'll think of it by tomorrow...

Can anyone else remember...maybe it was sold where you live, too... an old classic brand of baby soap bars that were around for a long time. Decades. Then they were discontinued. They were white oval-ish bars with "baby soap" stamped on them. The soap smelled a bit like Ivory, but more like babies. Not baby powder. Just clean, real, mild soap. It wasn't Johnson's or Dove. There was an unscented version that literally didn't smell at all...but the original was another staple my mom often bought right up until it was discontinued 10 yrs ago, or less. The packaging had a picture of a baby on it, white box with blue and pink print. Or, same design on plastic wrapped around plain boxes. The package said it was "good for mom's skin, too" or something like that. Anyone? It's weird I can't remember. I used to look for it when, I guess, it was disappearing from the stores, and buy it if I saw it. It was inexpensive but good quality. It always worked for me. It seemed to be pretty "natural", like soap is "supposed to" smell - it didn't smell fake (I think Johnson's baby products smell more artificial) .... Argh! Come on memory, pick up the pace! (I think it's perimenopause) I have the image in my mind but not the name!
 
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It was probably discontinued because it didn't stand out enough and I don't think it ever changed to compete...which is too bad (that it disappeared) for those of us who liked it (even if we can't remember what it was called either...lol). It was just always there, then it wasn't. It's bad...I feel like I'm forgetting something that should be easy to remember...like Gerber...but for soap. It's not important overall, just to me, at the moment.
 
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Good morning, all! Tea, coffee, and etc. are ready and waiting.

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BTW, you have less than 48 hours to get those resolutions made.
 
Can we resolve what is eternally beyond us?

Some say it is a leap of faith ... and some believe in it as if it isn't so according to their fates! Thus it becomes as pious as religion and some annexation with the imploded point ... that descends to god knows where ... a small thing that isn't quite nothing as in poor no graphic sense if you see Sophia in the rye grab Ur ...

I continue on philosophically as insane to those adhering to the implosion ... and thus the fallout occuring during the fallacy of logos! There is said to be no word for that item as a wee chit ... the smallest bit that can cause troublesome recall! Then the thing off the great Wahl ...

Mental reciprocation ... and we are taught that in religious institution there exists no mind (soul, psyche) as this is denied by commission of losing it ...

I still wonder about which side of the thin line drawn by the enlightened by either politix ... is craziest! Must be the meddling medium in meso form brae without bindings ... naked truth is out there ... Farside Series and chuckling ...

Admire the loose weal ... it may hurt when it falls off and you are splayed in the sand ... almost like falling of a camel's hump!
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Of all the stupid things...now this is keeping me up. Maybe I'll think of it by tomorrow...

Can anyone else remember...maybe it was sold where you live, too... an old classic brand of baby soap bars that were around for a long time. Decades. Then they were discontinued. They were white oval-ish bars with "baby soap" stamped on them. The soap smelled a bit like Ivory, but more like babies. Not baby powder. Just clean, real, mild soap. It wasn't Johnson's or Dove. There was an unscented version that literally didn't smell at all...but the original was another staple my mom often bought right up until it was discontinued 10 yrs ago, or less. The packaging had a picture of a baby on it, white box with blue and pink print. Or, same design on plastic wrapped around plain boxes. The package said it was "good for mom's skin, too" or something like that. Anyone? It's weird I can't remember. I used to look for it when, I guess, it was disappearing from the stores, and buy it if I saw it. It was inexpensive but good quality. It always worked for me. It seemed to be pretty "natural", like soap is "supposed to" smell - it didn't smell fake (I think Johnson's baby products smell more artificial) .... Argh! Come on memory, pick up the pace! (I think it's perimenopause) I have the image in my mind but not the name!
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Camay? Lux? Sweetheart? Pears? Jergens?
 
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I have more than 48 hours to make a resolution. That is if I'm going to make one. I've decided my new year will start on January 4.

Your thoughts are interesting @Kimmio Laughterlove. Ivory soap has always been irritating to my skin. I stopped using drug store shampoos and such a long time ago, mostly because they don't get along with my very fine hair. They often have too much scent for me too. I realized some time ago that it was usually the chemicals in scented products that give me grief. I'm glad more places, especially health facilities are scent-free.
 
I remember using bars of Sweetheart Soap to make crafts - sometimes carving them, sometimes covering them with tuile netting & sequins to turn them into 'fish' that would scent wherever these decorative wonders were placed. Xmas bazaar fodder .... (photo from Etsy)

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We use Dove Sensitive Skin soap bars for showering. Seems to work for Mrs. M but I have itchy legs, though that may not be the soap. I had it when I used Ivory, too.

Anyone got fun plans for tomorrow night? We'll probably just be having a quiet night home, though Little M's friends all seem to be home for the holidays so he may go out.
 
We are going to a Greek restaurant with friends tomorrow night. If the weather is cooperative, we'll follow that up with a campfire. No one is sure we'll be awake at midnight. Perhaps we'll celebrate midnight Alberta or even Ontario time. :)
 
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Camay? Lux? Sweetheart? Pears? Jergens?
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I remembered. It was called Baby's Own. Like those others (we used all those - Pears is okay - never heard of Sweetheart soap though), it goes back a long time.

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I remember it always looking like this:
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I remember's Baby's Own soap. It was pretty well the only one in our house; we'd have Pears sometimes, as well.

I am going to see a movie (the Star Wars one) and go to Swiss Chalet for supper afterwards, with the Hippie and my dog-walking friend, as has been our New Year's Eve habit the last four-five years. I won't see midnight.
 
I think I will be going over to my 89 yr old neighbours and watch Home Alone 3 with them. We were trying to get it off the net the other day ( talking about Trumps showing up in HA 2 and the loss of that very unimportant scene on CBC). It is also a good time for some reflection, sorting of old photographs and cleaning the house.
I have a Drs appointment in the morning.
 
We'll be venturing across the street to enjoy dinner & some good wine with neighbours, as we have been doing for I can't remember how long! We used to make a point of playing games or watching a movie to stay up til midnight ... but now ... well let's just say it's lost its allure!
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
I think I found it. It’s an even longer word - without having asked my mom, this looks familiar. I know it starts with m and it’s the one of the longest single word chemical names we’d ever read on a label and had never noticed it before because it seems, most often, people are allergic to sodium laurel sulphate (products are often labelled SLS free, and come to think of it, an ex boyfriend was terribly allergic to that before and it’s still in tons of products ... but back then product labels were not saying anything about being free of it right on the front of bottles...he had to look more carefully then).

methylchloroisothiazolinone



That makes me think...why is it that more people suddenly become allergic to something that’s been used/ consumed for a long time? I think of all the crap we used to use on skin and hair that were in every house because there weren’t as many choices, even in the 80’s ... all the commercial perfumey crap that was popular...and allergies were a more rare occurrence. I could use Zest soap and Sauve Shampoo...hmm, what else?...Silkience, Dial, Camay, Salon Selectives, Pert, Agree, Wella Balsam (remember Timotei? Ha! My friend always used that at her house. I still remember what it smelled like. It smelled good actually!)...some of the typical “go to” brands I can think of... I used them no problem, and so did everybody else...I can’t now. I remember thinking it odd that a girl at school had to go home because she stayed at a friend’s house and used a bar of Ivory soap in there and broke out in an itchy rash. Back then, I thought Ivory was a mild product. My mom bought it all the time, since I was a baby. Sometimes I want to buy it for nostalgia’s sake (it’s the cheapest brand now anyway - 30 years ago it was average) but I know it’s too harsh for my skin because my skin reacted to it, and got really dry, when my ex husband bought it for himself and I used it (I already tested it out once, I shouldn’t try again).
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Death rates of the young have declined for one.
 
Happy New Year's Eve Day. aka the 7th day of Christmas. Hot drinks await.

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What is day 7 again? Lords a leaping? God, guess I need to clean house before my true love sends them over. God, last time one of them crashed into a hutch full of dishes. What a mess.
 
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