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L'occitane Indulgent Gifts TSV 25/09/22
the mens ones acutally sold out first last year dispite having less stock2 mens is a waste the mens stuff never sells out. They should have done 3 for women one which I would have liked to be an oriental scent like Neroli.
Thee was another set I think it was a product of the month or something men and womens set's. It never sold out several months later.the mens ones acutally sold out first last year dispite having less stock
Mr V is the same. He`s an ex miner and at the end of his shifts he`d go to the pit head baths and use a big block of Fairy Household soap or carbolic soap. He says anybody who took scented soap would have been mercilessly laughed out of the bath.Is soap an indulgent gift?? OK, Mr CC would love it but not scented, he likes the 19p value bars from Tesco Cheap date.
CC
For those who like cedar fragrances then this one is lovely. Don`t be fooled by the low price and its supposedly a mans fragrance but I`d wear it in a heartbeat. I bought a couple of them as partial Christmas gifts last year and Mr V really liked it, as did my oldest son. I`ve also bought other fragrances from the range.
Isn't carbolic really drying? You mean the Wrights Coal Tar, right?Mr V is the same. He`s an ex miner and at the end of his shifts he`d go to the pit head baths and use a big block of Fairy Household soap or carbolic soap. He says anybody who took scented soap would have been mercilessly laughed out of the bath.
He won`t touch shower gel or what he calls "fancy shampoo" and still uses old fashioned double sided razor blades and a brush to lather his shaving cream.
Nope it was true carbolic soap. Difficult to find these days but we sometimes visit a market stall which still sells it. In the pit head baths the miners were literally black from head to toe and they just used anything which cleansed well and were big sized blocks of soap. The Fairy Household Soap came in big chunks and were generally used for washing laundry.
Isn't carbolic really drying? You mean the Wrights Coal Tar, right?
They still use Fairy soap in India for clothes...Nope it was true carbolic soap. Difficult to find these days but we sometimes visit a market stall which still sells it. In the pit head baths the miners were literally black from head to toe and they just used anything which cleansed well and were big sized blocks of soap. The Fairy Household Soap came in big chunks and were generally used for washing laundry.
When I was a child and my Mum had one of the old fashioned upright washing machines with wringers on top, I`d watch her scrub the collars, cuffs of Dad`s shirts with the big Fairy block and she`d scrub the soles of my white school socks with it too and the crotch of everybody`s underwear before she put them in the washer. Her laundry was pristine and one of the proudest moments of her life was when the Doctor came to see one of us kids cos we were ill and he commented about Mum`s snow white laundry which was hanging from the ceiling on wooden clothes airer which you raised and dropped by a rope system.They still use Fairy soap in India for clothes...
TSV is now on 24thThe Elemis TSV has been rescheduled due to the death of The Queen. This means that this L'Occitane TSV will no longer be on 25th.