Remembering your grandparent's medicine closet.

Yes to a lot of the above. In addition:

St. Joseph Aspirin for Children (they had six)

Bromo Seltzer

Ipana (toothpaste)

Williams Mug shaving soap (in an old diner-style mug) and a boar bristle brush

Grandma used nothing but Pond’s cold cream.

Okay I am remembering a few things from my childhood: Bactine, Aspergum, Campho-Phenique, Doan’s pills, Trind cough syrup (was probably 99% alcohol), Canoe after shave, Prell shampoo

BC Headache Powder. It came packaged in a little paper envelope thingy. My grandmother used to open one end, tip the powder into her mouth and follow it with a big swig of Coca Cola from the bottle.

We still have Vicks, Hall’s, and Campho-Phenique in our bathroom. But, then, I also have Sweet Honesty and Charlie on my bath counter.

We have all of these, too, in our first aid kit.

remember the commercials for the baby aspirin “thank goodness for St. Josephs” - I think they were pink?

Aspergum - Orange flavor. My grandma had issues with swallowing pills, so she had this instead. I remember getting into it and having a piece (or two) because it tasted so good. No, i wasn’t using it for medicinal purposes.
Grandma used a talcum powder instead of deodorant, not Johnson’s. She used in conjunction with dress shields.

My nana used a deodorant that came in a jar. Also White Shoulders perfume.

They were light orange and tasted like a creamsicle. I’m surprised more kids didn’t OD on them. We LOVED them!

I grew up with this as my mother’s scent. I still wear it occasionally. It brings back the best of times. For me, perfumes/colognes are memories rather than scents. I wear Sweet Honesty because it reminds DH of, well, never mind.

This is what was in my late parents’ medicine cabinet (not my grandparents), in the 1960s and 1970s:

iodine
Bactine
aspirin
Ben-Gay, and later, also Tiger Balm
Aspergum
Vick’s Vapo-Rub
cherry flavored cough syrup
Throat Discs (a small beige Necco-like wafer with menthol, eucalyptus and licorice)
Sucrets
“Helps” (tiny black licorice pieces with menthol and eucalyptus)
“Chips” (Chipurnoi), both the licorice and the menthol-eucalyptus flavors-- by the way, you can still buy these.
Milk of Magnesia
Preparation H
Brioschi and Rolaids
Rubbing alcohol
Hydrogen Peroxide
Prell shampoo
Pond’s Vanishing Cream and Pond’s Dry Skin Cream
Robert Curley hair cream, with lanolin
PhisoHex (and after they had to remove the hexachlorophene, PhisoDerm)
Mavis talcum powder in the red tin.

Also Visine
…and Old Spice.

We had the orange flavored baby aspirin, too.

You can still get Brioschi. I have a jar!

I also remember Happy Face Facial Washing Cream, but we never bought it. I had the cute little sample jar.

My mother never bought Noxzema, but I did.

One product from the 70’s that I had (and I doubt is available now).

Sun-In. The jingle was “Sun-In and sunlight, and you’ll be blonder to night”.

I’d put it in my hair many summer days.

Sun-in and Lemon Up shampoo, @TatinG. And Bonne Belle Ten-O-Six. Good times! :smile:

@TatinG and @ChoatieMom you can still get your Sun In fix, particularly if you have COVID hair now! (I am way overdue for highlights!). https://sun-in.com/where-to-buy/

Bonne Bell ten O six face wash and oil of Olay moisturizer.

I remember powdered toothpaste, but I don’t recall the name. Also Pearl Drops toothpaste.

@ChoatieMom, I had a Sweet Honesty bear candle I carried around with me for probably 40 years. I got it sometime in my early teens, and I think I FINALLY dumped it just within the last couple of years. Never did burn it down.

DH wants to chime in with:

Big rubber hot water bottle
Styptic pencil
Baking soda
Colgate tooth powder
Straight/safety razors
Norelco rotary shaver
Mustache wax
Brylcreem (a little dab’ll do ya)
RIght Guard

Five Day Deodorant Pads
Mentholatum

We still have all those. ^

Vick’s Vapo-rub - This is my husband’s cure-all. He swears by it. It’s his equivalent to the dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Windex. :slight_smile:

Coke Syrup - this was purchased from the pharmacist. My mom used it, too, when we were little for motion sickness and tummy aches.

Sucret’s - I loved those little metal boxes. I would use the empty boxes for little treasure boxes.

Ex-Lax - Looked like a chocolate bar to an unsuspecting youngster but sure didn’t taste like one. Ask me how I know. :sunglasses:

How old are all of you? These were things I had when I was in Jr High and High School…not grandma!

Vick’s popped into my mind first. Didn’t it cure everything? And Pepto Mismol.

There was also some kind of foot powder that supposedly cured athletes foot. Metal orange bottle.

I refused to take Pepto Mismol. It made me gag.

Gold Bond? I have that in my house now but it comes in a plastic container not metal now.

Bag Balm was another old timey product still occasionally used here.

I forgot to add Calamine lotion. I’m not sure it actually worked-- we still itched.
Also Bufferin.

My husband’s mother had Dippity-Do hair setting gel.
I used Tame creme rinse (i.e. conditioner) – it was good for detangling my long hair.

Ivory bar soap in the kitchen, Palmolive in the bathroom (and I became acquainted with the taste of both!)