state of emergency

[Top-of-the-hill]

   I still use handkerchiefs, though I go to "balm" tissues if I have a cold! Also never stopped using block soap. I have the opposite problem to groom over hand washing. My basin is so far from the boiler that I would have to keep running off a couple of gallons to get hot water.
    Someone mentioned learning to wash hands at a young age - I think I was taught at my village primary school.

[hallmark]

I went to Chemist today, they only offered me Anadin so I threw them back on the counter and told them "No, Thanks"

They asked me Why?

I asked them if they had ever seen the Anadin Avert Slogan   "Nothing works better than Anadin"

They weren't going to fool me!!

[[Ray]]

FS

"I can still remember the smell of carbolic soap at school and also at my grandmother's!"     

Carbolic? Do you mean "(Wrights) Coal Tar Soap Bars"?     

:-) Still got a bar! Hole drilled thru bar. length of string, thru. Tied to shower head.     

Great for washing your hair, and getting the Bear Grease off your hair.     

Ray

[Familysearch]

Wright's coal tar is still available. Yellow soap in a yellow box. I meant to buy some when I saw it, just to see if it  has changed. (But, typically, I forgot!)

Carbolic was, if I remember, a deep red.  I think the school bought them in big bars and cut them up into smaller pieces.

FS

[Romilly]

Yes, you're right Familysearch, - I remember that red carbolic soap! (Once smelt, - never forgotten:-)

Romilly

[josey]

Mr Josey had red lumps of carbolic soap at charity boarding school; his farmer father commanded him bring some home every holiday as it removes tractor grease a treat 

[Flattybasher9]

Washing up liquid mixed through Ariel washing powder. Now that cleans your hands.

Malky

Panic buying at Aldi this morning at 08:00 hrs. It's all starting to get a bit silly, or is it??

[[Ray]]

Carbolic soap - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbolic_soap     
Carbolic soap is a mildly antiseptic soap containing carbolic acid and/or cresylic acid, both of which are phenols derived from either coal tar or petroleum sources..

[Skoosh]

Get Wright's Coal Tar soap online.

The Daily Mail has much to commend it as a toilet-roll substitute! 

Skoosh.