Carbolic Soap

Bogeyman said:

I have always had an affinity for this type of soap since I was a kid, but it disappeared decades ago and the memories faded. Cut to about ten years ago when I saw that http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/ was selling/exporting it and I bought half a case. The smell certainly took me back to my youth as I remember it was my father's favorite soap as I recalled the red bars stacked near the basement shower for the men of the house. Alas, the EU regulations stripped the current production of its goodness and I was forced to buy Third World carbolic soap from the Caribbean which was actually damn good and maybe even better, e.g., Seprod and Blue Power. I cannot seem to find Seprod anymore as it is not exported it appears.

Cut to today and I see that http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/ is now making/selling their own brand called Redbuoy which appears to be real deal: http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/redbuoy.htm

Cheap it ain't, but for some of us it may serve as a form of time machine to a simpler era. I surely cannot be the only one here who remembers this wonderful soap and its incomparable smell and general feeling of being thoroughly & utterly clean.

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Shave to the grave said:

I remember Redbouy, who could forget that smell...

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Bikerjohn said:

I've paid over three quid for a bar of fancy '''artisan" soap in the past so £6 for two all in isn't too extortionate. I'm wondering if the smell might invoke memories of mum threatening to wash my mouth out with it!!

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Bogeyman said:

I have always had an affinity for this type of soap since I was a kid, but it disappeared decades ago and the memories faded. Cut to about ten years ago when I saw that http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/ was selling/exporting it and I bought half a case. The smell certainly took me back to my youth as I remember it was my father's favorite soap as I recalled the red bars stacked near the basement shower for the men of the house. Alas, the EU regulations stripped the current production of its goodness and I was forced to buy Third World carbolic soap from the Caribbean which was actually damn good and maybe even better, e.g., Seprod and Blue Power. I cannot seem to find Seprod anymore as it is not exported it appears.

Cut to today and I see that http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/ is now making/selling their own brand called Redbuoy which appears to be real deal: http://www.jupitersoaps.co.uk/redbuoy.htm

Cheap it ain't, but for some of us it may serve as a form of time machine to a simpler era. I surely cannot be the only one here who remembers this wonderful soap and its incomparable smell and general feeling of being thoroughly & utterly clean.

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Blademonkey said:

Do you use this soap on your face and body?

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Bogeyman said:

Yes, as a kid I did. Nowadays however I only use any bar soap for my body and a variety of facial washes for my face.

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Blademonkey said:

I am going to order a couple of bar's ,I remember it along with the green bar of fairy but it was used for household job's and I can't remember washing myself with it but the smell was one to remember and I will jump aboard that time machine and I may even try it out as a body soap, I will be clean anyway!
P.

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Bogeyman said:

My paternal grandparents used Fairy soap on the farm as I can remember the green bar in their bathroom.

Report back on your Redbuoy experience, please.

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trainman said:

Memories if school come flooding back thinking about that soap and the Izal toilet paper we had to use.

Dave

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