Not in the medicine cabinet but under the sink…epsom salts. I remember my grandmother soaked her feet every night in a pan with Epsom salts.
I never had living grandparents but my parents, who never had a medicine cabinet and never went to doctors when I was growing up, used:
(Aspirin or Codeine and basically never used)
Beechams
Brylcreem
Nivea
Alka Seltzer
Castor Oil
A certain toothpaste that has been rebranded
Tiger Balm
Licorice root
My mother never shaved, waxed or wore make-up, except for a slick of lipstick and face powder for ‘special occasions’ And my father never used shaving cream until later years, it was a shaving brush sudsed up on a bar of soap, and a razor.
All the mentions of Ten O Six and Sun In - I am going to start a thread of things we should remember from OUR youth!
The slot in the back of the medicine cabinet for used razor blades that mysteriously disappeared going who knows where?
Prell sat on the edge of my grandparents’ bathtub for years.
Noxzema, Merthiolate, Fels Naptha.
The smell of Bengay permeated everything. Makes sense to me now- farmers with sore muscles.