The Stuff Of Yesteryear: Discontinued Products (Non-Food) You Miss

[shapeshifter]

4 hours ago, Glitches said:

On 10/30/2021 at 11:43 AM, peacheslatour said:

 

I loved my bright green-colored Herbal Essence shampoo as a teenager. I wish I could smell the original formula now just to see if it bothers me now.

I googled it the other day and some scientist or executive or someone from the company said they still get requests to bring back the Original Herbal Essence shampoo. My question is why aren’t they bringing it back? Everyone remembers it and I’m sure younger people would love it too. Does anyone know how to start an on-line petition? 

Actually, that 👇 was me.👵 

On 10/30/2021 at 9:46 AM, shapeshifter said:

loved my bright green-colored Herbal Essence shampoo as a teenager. I wish I could smell the original formula now just to see if it bothers me now.
I am now so sensitive to fragrances that I get hives if my sheets or clothes even absorb fragrance from a community dryer, or migraines and coughing if I inhale it.

I wonder what the ingredients are in this:   
https://somethinspecial.com/products/herbal-essence-original-fragrance   
But I seriously doubt I could tolerate even the OG Herbal Essence formula now. 😔 

I’d need a time machine that made me younger.🤸‍♂️

Edited February 4, 2023 by shapeshifter

[nokat]

4 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I’d need a time machine that made me younger.

If you find one, can you let us know? :D I have a cranky knee this morning and need to find a one-story place because stairs are not fun when you're afraid your knee will give out.

[Glitches]

On 2/4/2023 at 4:40 AM, shapeshifter said:

I wonder what the ingredients are in this:   
https://somethinspecial.com/products/herbal-essence-original-fragrance   

I purchased a copycat fragrance on Etsy. Although it is pleasant enough as a covert room freshener it is not what I remember about the original Clairol HE scent. 

[WendyCR72]

Some eBay accounts are selling the ACTUAL Original Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo (old '70s stock or something). While I miss the scent a lot, I don't think I'd buy 50-year-old shampoo.

(And apparently, shampoo does expire! So double no, for me. But there have been buyers...)

[EtheltoTillie]

On 2/4/2023 at 6:40 AM, shapeshifter said:

Actually, that 👇 was me.👵 

I wonder what the ingredients are in this:   
https://somethinspecial.com/products/herbal-essence-original-fragrance   
But I seriously doubt I could tolerate even the OG Herbal Essence formula now. 😔 

I’d need a time machine that made me younger.🤸‍♂️

Just looked at this now.  It seems suspicious.  It would be a fun nostalgia trip to smell the Herbal Essence scent, but I'd have my doubts with this sketchy-looking product.

[T Summer]

Does anyone else miss Levi's original 501 button fly jeans?  Zip fly too, 505's?. The ones men and women alike bought at the  army navy store. The term for it  today  I guess would be  raw denim. They had all the flexibility and comfort of wearing linoleum before you employed your own special method of breaking  in.

Some people achieved the faded, worn, fit you like a glove effect by working, farming and riding in them and the accompanying frequent washings...

My friends and I anxious to achieve  just the right look and having high school levels of time on our hands, employed measures like soaking in a tub of hot water with  lots and lots of detergent and  fabric softener and even some bleach overnight... maybe   a few overnights, Then wearing and washing them A LOT. Some soaked them in beach water and let them dry in the sun a few times and then washed the living daylights out of them.

Oh, but once they achieved that particular soft faded blue hue and feel! Very appealing look on men and women alike. My mum hated them and as I headed off to school she'd ask  why I was dressed like a farm hand?

 

 I personally hate stretch jeans and spandex in general with the fire and intensity of a thousand suns! A lot of women seem to appreciate the flexibility in both the fabric and    sizing, and of course a lot of younger people might never have worn anything else. IMHO stretch jeans   are very unflattering  unless one is  very fit and very toned. Even then, I just don't think jeans should fit like tights or leggings.

 

 

 

[T Summer]

On 10/30/2021 at 3:50 AM, WendyCR72 said:

I miss Flex Shampoo and Conditioner. The Faberge Organics Shampoo and Conditioner smelled heavenly, too. Sigh.

When I read this Farrah Fawcett came to mind and I wondered if I'd seen her in one of those TV ads. Not her, Heather Locklear!

 

On 10/30/2021 at 8:55 AM, smittykins said:

“I told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on…”

Farrah had her OWN Faberge hair care line...as well she should!

 

[T Summer]

On 1/3/2020 at 3:47 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

MAC's matte lipstick: Underground. It was a dark bronze with a hint of shimmer and was PERFECT for my skin tone! And they fucking discontinued it years ago. Man, if I'd known that was the plan, I would have stocked up on them when I was their outlet a year or so before they did. They still have some good shades, but they also have some horrid shades too.

Oh and Bliss' Minty and Soapy body scrub!

My discontinued Mac lipstick shade was a creme formula   called Bardot.  I'm STILL salty!

On 10/29/2019 at 11:07 AM, funky-rat said:

My mom had them too.  They were in a box with a matching flower shaped soap for each one.  They weren't fizzy, but you crumbled them and put them in bathwater.

My mum had those fizzy foil wrapped bath cubes too.

Does anyone remember a round product you dropped in the bath that really fizzed, much larger than those cubes but not as large as the "bath bombs" of today? The only possible brand association I could shake out of my head was Cutex... but that can't be it because I can't find any info on it. It was definetely in the 70's, though.

[T Summer]

On 2/9/2017 at 1:35 PM, zxy556575 said:

I kind of miss the old Parke-Davis throat "discs". They contained a smidge of chloroform so were later discontinued. They were flavored with licorice and my sister and I used to eat 10-12 of them at a time. Like Marie Barone and the Sucrets, my mother took to hiding them.

Chloroform? Wow!

I never heard of that brand, but there used to be a  sore throat lozenge type product called Spec T. Not quite as long ago as the 70's maybe 80's or even early 90's. If you were so unfortunate as to have one of those painful cases of strep throat where even the air gives you searing pain, those red lozenges soothed it.  I searched for and found some other  benzocaine  containing lozenges made in Mexico  but I often wondered why such an effective product  stopped being sold? IDK if the super strong  ones like Halls or Chloroseptic work as well because they burn my mouth.  Spec T wasn't menthol-y or super strong tasting.

[smittykins]

8 minutes ago, T Summer said:

Chloroform? Wow!

I never heard of that brand, but there used to be a  sore throat lozenge type product called Spec T. Not quite as long ago as the 70's maybe 80's or even early 90's. If you were so unfortunate as to have one of those painful cases of strep throat where even the air gives you searing pain, those red lozenges soothed it.  I searched for and found some other  benzocaine  containing lozenges made in Mexico  but I often wondered why such an effective product  stopped being sold? IDK if the super strong  ones like Halls or Chloroseptic work as well because they burn my mouth.  Spec T wasn't menthol-y or super strong tasting.

I don’t remember the actual product, but I’ve seen several commercials for it on YouTube featuring Avery Schreiber.

[GHScorpiosRule]

3 hours ago, T Summer said:

Does anyone else miss Levi's original 501 button fly jeans?

Me! Me! Me! I had the button fly boot cut. Loved them! And when I lost weight, could never find them in my new size. So peeved.

[peacheslatour]

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Does anyone else miss Levi's original 501 button fly jeans?  Zip fly too, 505's?. The ones men and women alike bought at the  army navy store. The term for it  today  I guess would be  raw denim. They had all the flexibility and comfort of wearing linoleum before you employed your own special method of breaking  in.

You can still get those, it's all my husband ever wears. I get the Womens zip fly, boot cut Levy's. Lots of sizes. I have freakishly long legs and they are the only brand that isn't too short on me.

[badhaggis]

6 hours ago, T Summer said:

Does anyone else miss Levi's original 501 button fly jeans?  Zip fly too, 505's?. The ones men and women alike bought at the  army navy store. The term for it  today  I guess would be  raw denim. They had all the flexibility and comfort of wearing linoleum before you employed your own special method of breaking  in.

Some people achieved the faded, worn, fit you like a glove effect by working, farming and riding in them and the accompanying frequent washings...

My friends and I anxious to achieve  just the right look and having high school levels of time on our hands, employed measures like soaking in a tub of hot water with  lots and lots of detergent and  fabric softener and even some bleach overnight... maybe   a few overnights, Then wearing and washing them A LOT. Some soaked them in beach water and let them dry in the sun a few times and then washed the living daylights out of them.

Oh, but once they achieved that particular soft faded blue hue and feel! Very appealing look on men and women alike. My mum hated them and as I headed off to school she'd ask  why I was dressed like a farm hand?

 

 I personally hate stretch jeans and spandex in general with the fire and intensity of a thousand suns! A lot of women seem to appreciate the flexibility in both the fabric and    sizing, and of course a lot of younger people might never have worn anything else. IMHO stretch jeans   are very unflattering  unless one is  very fit and very toned. Even then, I just don't think jeans should fit like tights or leggings.

 

 

 

We would sit in the tub wearing them and then had to walk around wearing them until they dried. The fit was amazing. Thankfully I live in AZ I don't think that would be a pleasant thing to do in less than 90 degrees!

[T Summer]

1 hour ago, badhaggis said:

We would sit in the tub wearing them and then had to walk around wearing them until they dried. The fit was amazing. Thankfully I live in AZ I don't think that would be a pleasant thing to do in less than 90 degrees!

My husband was always  a strong advocate of the get them wet and walk them dry method for any garments made of tough fabric and especially for hiking boots!

I was too scared as even  as  a young girl it was drummed into my head it was unhealthy to .remain in wet garments, like bathing suits.

[shapeshifter]

13 minutes ago, T Summer said:

My husband was always  a strong advocate of the get them wet and walk them dry method for any garments made of tough fabric and especially for hiking boots!

That sounds like a good idea for walking shoes too!

 

I still have fond memories about a pair of jeans I had in the 70s that had sailor-style buttons similar to these, but lower rise, and more spread apart, IIRC:

[T Summer]

4 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

That sounds like a good idea for walking shoes too!

 

 

IDK what your walking shoes would look like after that? ...but my husband tells me he used to go backpacking (sounds dreadful) and he would have never set out on a hike in boots he hadn't gotten wet and walked dry.  He was interested in avoiding blisters, rather than   looking smart. lol

 

This is a fun thread . I'm glad to know there are still plenty of people around  who remember all the way back to the 70's. My mail had me feeling really old yesterday as I got something that stated I maybe eligible to have my "final expenses" paid. 😬

 

If I start talking about the fragrances I've loved and lost, I may never shut up!

[Glitches]

17 hours ago, T Summer said:

Does anyone else miss Levi's original 501 button fly jeans? 

Yes! I was just thinking about 501s the other day. So FUN to unbutton the top button and YANK to open the other four. Youthful good times. 

[shapeshifter]

4 hours ago, Glitches said:

Yes! I was just thinking about 501s the other day. So FUN to unbutton the top button and YANK to open the other four. Youthful good times. 

Not sure if this would apply so much to the button 501s, but as I yanked open my sailor button flap to relieve myself after a couple of beers, I always questioned the wisdom of such a fashion choice for a night on the town, as the reverse process of rebuttoning became increasingly difficult with each beer.  
Within a few months of fully experiencing this aspect of college town life, I had reevaluated the merits of drinking entirely🤮 but re-buttoning was still tedious.  
This would be a more frequent issue nowadays if I had a pair. 
But opening would be faster too, so, yes, I might buy some sailor-style button-flap jeans if they make a comeback, but they would have to be stretchy and loose fit.
 

[peacheslatour]

Hey, only $389.95 at FreedomPlus!

 

[EtheltoTillie]

No button fly jeans for me.  I tried them once in the 70s.  Too annoying.