All babies are beautiful when they are sleeping.

Thank you for reminding me of the Love's Baby Soft. How did we ever think that stuff smelled good? I remember the lipglosses in the tins as well, and yes, watermelon was the best. Of course I'm a bit older so for me it was combined with feathered hair and Ditto jeans -- you know the ones with the saddleback.

Thank you for reminding me of the Love's Baby Soft. How did we ever think that stuff smelled good? I remember the lipglosses in the tins as well, and yes, watermelon was the best. Of course I'm a bit older so for me it was combined with feathered hair and Ditto jeans -- you know the ones with the saddleback.

Loves baby soft! And those days when you're in school but your mind is outside where the air is just starting to get that soft edge of heat, but not so hot that you sweat.

Lip gloss rocks!

And there is nothing wrong with reminiscing ... that is what good memories are all about.

Sorry about the double comments.

I saw that Robert Allison dude on "Cops" the other day. True story.

After I got over my Love's stage, I progressed to vanilla oil from the Body Shop and I am pretty sure I smelled like tic-tacs. Happy Friday!

Dagny! no problemmo.
Drew, I totally believe it LOL.

Ooooh, I also did a vanilla oil phase from Body Shop... then came the regrettable Patchouli stage, which my dad called "that tree sap smell." Nice!

Ohhhh I miss the lip gloss in the tin with the sliding top! And Love's Baby Soft...one of my uncles gave me a bottle of this for Christmas when I was 11 years old. Everyone of my family members was all "Oooo Jenny got perfume!" And while it embarrassed me I remember thinking "That's right. I'm an adult now." Haha!

Smells from the past. Oh the memories they can retrieve.

Oh yes! Love's Baby Soft brings it all back. I once heard a comedian say in those days he never knew if he was supposed to kiss his date or burp her.There was one that was called A Rose is a Rose, too. I remember, my baby sister (who just got married last weekend) is nine years younger than I am, and as a teething two year old, would steal my Lip Smackers and eat them!!! She really loved the watermelon and the 7-Up ones. That used to make me crazy, they weren't cheap (to me!), there goes my babysitting money yet again... I was thinking yesterday how this was the kind of weather that would get us thinking what kind of flip-flops we were going to buy, we only ever got one pair that had to last all summer so this was a Big Fashion Choice. Ha! I am so glad all your fur-babes are at home. I rarely post but I read you every day... keep your chin up and your lip gloss on.

Woooo I'm a lot older than y'all but still those same sort of memories are vivid. For me tho, it was Tangee lipstick...this weird orange stuff that changed color on your lips. Natural, ya know so Mom was maybe ok with it since it looked more like lip gloss. Oddly enough, I couldn't quite remember the spelling and googled it and it's still being made!

Oh Laurie, you took me right back there with you! Even though I'm almost, not quite, but almost, 53, and we grew up in different times, somethings never change. Such sweet, innocent memories. After a lifetime of emotions, lots good, lots bad, it is so lovely to think back on life when it was pure and full of hope. I try to keep at least a little of that with me always.

Just an FYI for all your stalkers: CAP now has a "Make a Donation" button on the right side of this page. I figured that the Million Dollar Cat Fund would actually give 100% of my money to the vet bills instead of into the pockets of an over-paid "non-profit" corporate type.

You're worth evey penny, Purl!

It is beautiful here today. Crisp air, no humidity (my hair is so thankful) and bright sunshine. I am ready for camp now!!

Laurie, I just found your site - love it. Totally off topic, but I was looking through some of your old material and noticed not too long ago you were looking for a scarf pattern for some alpaca yarn. You may have already moved on, but if you haven't I made lots of alpaca scarves last Christmas and have a great and easy stitch that alpaca seems to love. It's called mistake rib or broken rib. Basically you cast on however many stitches you want for a K2, P2 rib plus one extra stitch. So that's a multiple of four plus one. Then you knit 2, purl 2 to the end, then knit that last stitch. On the next row you do the same thing all over again. So, unlike regular ribbing, where all the stitches line up perfectly, knitting the knits and purling the purls, the stitches only line up on certain rows. It looks really cool. So maybe you'd like to try that if you didn't already figure something out or keep it in mind for the future. I'm sure you are totally in the mood for knitting a nice, warm scarf right about now!

Ooh - it was all about the Jean Nate and Bonne Bell around here. 1979 and rainbow t-shirts. Mmmm. Good times.

I had every flavor of those liptins, even the gross ones, like honey, which didn't smell or taste like honey at all, more like you were chewing on a hello kitty eraser. And no matter what, I always cut myself on the edge of those things. Not child proof at all. Me, that is.

What funny timing! My sister just sent me an email yesterday that had been forwarded about a squillion times, and the subject line was "If You Were a Little Girl in the 70s." It mentioned Love's Baby Soft and roll-on lip gloss, as well as a bunch of other things that I remember so well. Ah, nostalgia. :)

I *still* use Bonne Bell lip stuff ALL THE TIME.

I've tried other, more grown-up stuff, but I always come back.

For me, it's the smell of Brut cologne.

My first "real" summertime boyfriend wore that all the time.

Thanks for reminding me.

I so loved the tins of lip stuff! I had like three of them and the Queen of all Lip Balms - the jumbo-sized Dr Pepper from Bonnie Bell. I also used to get the super gooy roller ball ones Maybelline (I think) in either strawberry, cherry or bubble gum from my aunt who was in high school and had all the cool stuff!

ps - hope all the Fur Kids are feeling better!

I reminisce madly about Love's Baby Soft -- actually went so far as to buy a teeny bottle of it a couple of years ago. Not sure if I still have it, but the scent IMMEDIATELY sent me back to junior high, where I stuttered every time a boy tried to talk to me. Gads, puberty was hellish.

I went from grape chap stick to the watermelon tin stuff(that always had a little purse lint around the edge) to lip-med-ex(tingly!) to that Jessica Simpson lip gloss. With about a million others in between, but those were my faves. There's a website for us addicts, you know.

http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/

Oh gosh ya'll just reminded me of the time when I bought a teensy bottle of Grey Flannel because that's what my high school love wore, and no lie... I was MARRIED at the time I bought it. Um, lonely much?

I took a whiff of that cologne and it just reminded me of every time we hugged or held hands or kissed in the art room during lunch. So nice.

Oh! Jenny! Jennifer bought me the Jessica Simpson lipgloss for christmas and I adore it. mmmm.

I remember the lip gloss tins, but my favorite was the ones from Maybelline with the little rollerball applicator. I dont remember the name of it, but bubble gum was my favorite.
After Loves Baby Soft, I progressed to Exclamation! and then peach oil from The Body Shop.

I'll bet there's a bottle of Love's Baby Soft somewhere in the way back of my sister's closet at my mom's house. I also sed to get the lip smacker candy cane every year in my christmas stocking (with 3 flavors, I remember orange crush, dr pepper, peppermint, and grape...I can smell it now). As far as make-up, my friend Kara and I would ride our 10 speeds down to the little variety store and we coveted these eye shadow pallettes that had 12 colors (including bright yellow). After saving for a few weeks I finally bought it, and every day after my mom went to work I would spend the 5 minutes before leaving for the bus to put on my makeup. I'm sure it was beautiful...

And camp...I went to an all girl's YMCA camp which was so great...I even had my first kiss at a camp dance. The boy's name was Eric Brown and he was from LaGrange, Georgia (I know that because he sent me a letter a couple days after the dance).

Laurie, thanks again for making a boring day at work a little brighter.

Speaking of smells taking you back, I was so totally committed to being a tomboy and beating the crap out of the boys my age, that I never got into the make-up, lip gloss, or perfume thing until high school. I still don't know how to handle a curling iron or do complicated brush/hairdryer actions. There are certain books in the children's side of the library that can send me way back if I open them and sniff. I swear to god/dess they smell the same as they did when I was a kid. I have been collecting them at used book stores and sales. Nothing like taking a fast road trip down memory lane...

So, did every boy (other than grey flannel guy) in your school wear Ralph Lauren's Polo cologne to offset the Baby Soft? The guys at my school used to BATHE in it.

As a lip gloss whore, I can totally relate to you love of the lip glosses in the metal tins with the sliding lids that made that oh-so-satisfying "Click!"

Love's Baby Soft was the best. Also, I copied whatever my older sister used and thus thought that Anais Anais and L'Air du Temps were fancy-shmancy French perfumes that beautiful French women wore in, you know, France.

Continued luck with the cats!

here it is...it will totally take you back...sorry it's so long.
YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70'S IF...
You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow
Went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.
You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven and washed
them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.
You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that
actually worked.
You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket
with flowers on it (did it have a sissy bar, too?).
You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller
blades) that had metal wheels.
You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
and you
Were absolutely in love with Randy from Emergency!
You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
You had rubber boots for rainy days and Duck shoes for
snowy days.
You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention
the"Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding
your hair.
People sometimes thought you were a boy.
Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized
possession.
You wore a poncho, gauchos, and crushed velvet.
You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
You had the Donnie and M arie dolls with those pink and
purple Satiny shredded outfits.
You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing
set with the trapeze . The swing set tipped over at least once.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable
color.
You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones
with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water
sandals.
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you
wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle
shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you
despised Nellie Olson!
You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.
Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or
"feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your
back pocket.
You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her
friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was
metal, not plastic.
You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the
Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.
Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the
movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop
singing it the whole day.
YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
It was a big event in your household each year when the
"Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the
popcorn and sleeping bags!
You often asked your Magic -8 ball the question: "Who
will I marry Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"
You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night
Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and
Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or
those weird potholders made on a plastic loom. Pot holders
I believe they were called loom loopers".
You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your
t-shirts!
You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding
your Portable tape player up to the speaker.
You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that
came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club.
Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing.
You learned everything you needed to know about girl
issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me,
Margaret.) ? unless you weren't allowed to read them!
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was
about aerobics.
You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or
shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.
You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
You spent all your allowance on smurfs and stickers for
your Sticker album!

Never heard of Loves Baby Soft but the mention of Jean Nate does bring back some memories.

It sure isn't sunny over here in WLA!! I am so tired of this Grey May. Does that mean we will skip June Gloom?

Ahhh the memories! Loved me the Love's Baby Soft. And Ditto jeans. (and Jordache jeans!) And Maybelline's gooey roll-on lip gloss.

And I also remember the Izod shirts and the Members Only jacket phase.

I also collect children's books, we didn't have a TV at my real mom's house, so reading was THE pasttime. My collection, or some of it:

Bridge to Terabithia
The Westing Game
The Judy Blumes... Are you there, God? It's Me, Margaret, etc.
Go Ask Alice
The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books (!)
Betsy-Tacy-Tib books
The cheerleader series books
"Dreams Can Come True"
ALL the Little House books
The Wrinkle In Time series
All the Lloyd Alexander books (The Black Cauldron, etc.)

I had the lemon scented version of Love's Baby Soft. I probably smelled like Lemon Pledge furniture polish.

Oh, and of course, Sweet Valley High!!

Oh god, I loved those tins of lip gloss, and I still had one in college. It was strawberry scented, and I can't find the stuff now. Why oh why didn't I stock up?

Jovan musk oil. Oh yeah. That's all it took to make my jr hi self swoon.

wow...go ask alice. i remember reading that and thinking "note to self, must become a hippie"

carmex rox!

I thought you'd photoshopped bob's body onto roy's head. i was thinkin' roy was gray all over.
my tycho feels like soft cut velvet, and bam with his longer fur feels silky.

lonely is when you go to bed and wish the cat would curl up in his usual spot against your legs so you can go to sleep. "Bam...? Baaaammmmm..."

OMG, my first kiss WAS at a roller rink!! With Jason Roth!! I worried over it for weeks... what if he uses his TONGUE?? hehehehe

Anais Anais -- wore it all through Jr. High, bathed in it. Really. I'm sure I smelled ... delightful. With my baby blue eye shadow, too, yo yo.

And yes, Polo!! All the guys drowned in Polo so when I met Grey Flannel guy it was awesome ;)

Oooh! I was just remmebering how I used to check Sweet Valley High from the library and hide them from my dad. The inside cover said something about "not suitable for children under 16" and I was 13 or so at the time.

Hid them under the bed, and read EVERY SINGLE ONE! HA! Sad, but that is about as rebellious as I got.

We cannot forget that one Judy Blume book - what was it called - where the main character loses her virginity and by the end, isn't into the guy anymore because she digs the guy at the camp.... I read that one backwards and forwards....

There was also The Waiting Game, right? Weirdly inappropriate books for young teens!!!!!

I was always rocking the Ice Blue Pink lipstick by Cover Girl. Child of the 80s.

Jovan's Musk anyone.
As a little girl, I would kiss my Mom after she put on her red lipstick so I could get a little on my lips and pretend to be a woman.

Windsong. I got Windsong perfume for christmas and I was SO grown-up. I can still hear the commerical for it - ...Your Windsong stays on my MIND.... Oh, first loves. Brian Leboeuf. Junior Hi baseball guy. Holding hands and my pink saddle-seat bell-bottoms. Puca shell chokers and feathered bangs, and Rae-Marie Bonocci was the prettiest girl in school and why can't I look like that!! man, memories.

You can still get lip gloss in a tin!
http://tintecosmetics.com/home.html

The lip gloss in the tin was from a brand called "Village" Lip Lickers, I think. I was a green apple girl, rather than watermelon.

Tina, you are thinking of *Forever* I believe. Oh, how I loved that book. My best friend and I bonded over that book. Do you remember *Ralph*?

I had a Love's Baby Soft Tshirt, and I still use Bonne Bell Lip Smackers (Dr. Pepper).

giant sized lip smackers on those little metal ball chains.....one to match each outfit.....

Have you heard about the chicken poop lip gloss? I hear good things about it.

Wow, you brought back some memories! My mother bought me a gift pack of Love's Baby Soft for Christmas this year. The smell makes me feel like a kid again (I'm only 31!). I too am a lip gloss monster, my fav was the Maybelline roll on bubble gum flavor. Do they still make that? Wow thanks for the throw back.

Polo = Evil Fraternity Boyfriend of the early 80s. Production of said scent must cease ASAP. Please!

Isn't it funny how when you read the words "Love's Baby Soft" you can actually smell it? Yup, I went from Love's Baby Soft to Jean Nate, then Windsong. Ah, the memories...

Tina - that was Forever! I remember not quite understanding some of the references. Ah, youth.

Purl - thanks for this post.

Bwhahahahaha!!! This is just too much.

At my school the girls either wore Exclamation or Navy and the boys wore Adidas Colonge. Everytime I smell Adidas I think of a certian boy who nearly stole my heart. *L*

So sad. *L*

Thanks for bringing a smile to my face today, Laurie. ;)

Oh and I still have a crazy lip gloss addiction. I can't go into Long's without coming out with some kind of crazy lip stuff. o.0 It's an addiction.

I'm a Strawberry girl. ;)

Loves Baby Soft, Yardley's Rose Garden and weeks spent at Camp of the Woods summer camp. Bicycles with baskets and banana seats.
Sigh...

*DIES LAUGHING*

I must have some chicken poop lip balm!!!

http://www.ilovechickenpoop.com/

That's messed UP! o.0

Love it.

I wore Drakkar Noir back in the day. It had the same effect as they show on those Tag commercials nowadays.

The Polo cologne is tricky because it is SO strong even just a little bit is overwhelming. Mom wouldn't let me wear it.

Don't forget the Bonnie Bell on a rope. I loved the Dr. Pepper. I wasn't a fan of the tins because they always got linty from the purse and kind of gross.

Avon made a Tangee-type lipstick for girls that came in a peanut shell shaped tube. The lipstick itself was green, but changed color according to your body chemistry. It was the only stuff Mom would allow us to use.

I loved Love's and wore it until I was at least 21.

Lip Lickers! And I TOTALLY forgot about the maybelline lip gloss - it also came in a wand version - yow. Yeah, Love's Baby Soft, and you and me and Sweet Honesty...

Oh the lip gloss - they were "Village" something or other and I had tons of them too. I found the roll on Bonne Bell ones at Long's a couple of years back along with the soda pop flavors and bought 16 of them (guess I was reminiscing) and gave them to all of the girls in our department. I saw the tins awhile back too - but it looks like there's a website for it (yay).

As for the woodworking class - it can come in handy (i just posted photos of my new deck railing that I built) - it still gets the boys to come over - we're no dummies!

Drew - my first boyfriend wore Drakkar. I soaked a papertowel in it (all I could find) one day at his house and kept it in my pillow case! At the time it made me sleep soooooooooo much better... so I thought.

Wow this is an excellent discussion. It really takes me back to all of it!! Love's Baby Soft ahh innocence!! I also had this strawberry smelling perfume that I won from field days or something and that was my fav even more than Love's.

I read all the Sweet Valley Highs! Completely forgot about those!! My aunts took me out to see California when I was 13 and I read those the entire time!! My aunts always pick on me by holding a book up to their noses and saying "Here's Tami in CA!"

Is the Judy Blume book called Tiger Eyes. I know a friend dies in that one but I don't remember if she loses her virginity. I haven't read it in a very long time. Only one I owned the hard cover to though.

First kiss also in a skating rink. That was the thing to do. Skating on Friday night, hanging out at the mall on Saturday.

Hello Kitty was big while we were in elementary. They erases all had this cool smell to them. You could buy it at Hallmark stores. A friend of mine had so much of it that I was jealous. She got everything. ;o(

How about the paper folded finger game. Where you would fold the paper just so then write four questions on it and then put the answers under the flaps. Then you would fit the paper on your two pointer fingers and two thumbs. And then move your fngers together, apart, together, apart. I can't remember it very clearly but we girls did it for hours!! Anyone remember this better?

"Forever" was the Judy Blume book. My grandmother won't buy it for me because someone in her bridge group had told her it was inappropriate!

The "toothpaste kiss" is what stuck with me from that book....

I was more of a Love's Lemon Fresh girl myself - and I still love my Dr. Pepper Lipsmacker - I miss the big fat ones, though. The roll-on lipgloss was Maybelline Kissing Potion - remember the bubblegum flavor? Graduating from Lipsmackers to Kissing Potion felt like becoming a grownup!

Love's Baby Soft!!! What a memory. I liked my Bonne Bell lipsmacker in bubble gum - nice!!! It seems to me I was using my orange and white enamel curling iron around that time to torture my bangs!!! Oh yah, bangs, baby, bangs... And a puffy down vest... and a fat pen that wrote in four different colors so I could make my puffy dots on each 'i' in different colors....

So really not much has changed!!! I love my Chanel perfume, my Bobby Brown or MAC lipsticks.... though no more bangs... though recently the thought of investing in some bang-tox has crossed my mind...

Ah... now I am going to be off reminiscing with the song 'Ebony and Ivory....' playing as a sound track.

Yes! Mary is right. It was "Village" brand lipgloss, and I remember now (it hit me like bricks) that I was a green apple fan. I used to wear "Blue Jeans" purfume. It was a lot like Love's. Yellow bottle with a blue cap. Loved it. My gloss had a wand. The cinnamon flavor burned my lips, but I loved it. The memories are wonderful. Thanks.

That's sooo funny. About 10 years ago, I was on a date and this guy asked me if I was wearing Loves Baby Soft! I was appalled! It was Alfred Sung. My girlfriends and I made fun of him.

I'm in the Love's Baby Soft Anonymous club as well.

I also used to wear Exclamation! You know, the white bottle with the BIG black exclamation point as the cap? I believe it still exists...

In catching up on the kitty woes, so glad that they are all okay and forgiving. I fear the day I need to give Remy medication again since it was hard enough when he was a wee kitten, and now he is a knot of kitty muscle. I think they'll have to let me give him sedatives first.

WOULDN'T buy it for me, I meant!

Did anyone else ever have the misfortune of forgetting to take the lipgloss tin out of your chemin' de feur (sic) jeans pocket before putting them into the washing machine? I don't think the washing machine created as much havoc as the dryer did, but the results were not pretty. One teeny tiny tin of lip gloss goes a long, long way in a load of laundry.

I can still picture the Love's Baby Soft container, with that pink domed lid. Was the powder pink, too? How did they DO that?

Bonne Bell lipsmackers - I was thinking about them last night when Teri Hatcher was talking about them on Letterman. And now again today.

I feel so old.

Love that "you were a child of the 70's if..." -- I can relate to all of it.

dude, reminiscing is the best thing ever. my best friend of 20 years and i occasionally down a biggie bottle of wine (not the regular size, the one up from that) and reminisce about days (people) gone by. it's so much fun, and it puts me in a good mood.

and good moods are the way to go.

my favorite flavor of that lipgloss in the tin was green apple.

Jovan Musk! Yes! I followed a guy around a Harley dealership, finally asked him what cologne he was wearing, and that was it! I bought some for my husband, but he won't wear cologne ... so _I_ wear it sometimes.
And, Tami, we used to call those folded paper things "cootie catchers" and there's one on my monitor even as I write this. You might put colors on the outside, numbers on the inside, and then open it up for the answer. Sometimes generic questions, sometimes boys names, sometimes types of careers on them.
Now I use them to freak out my grandchildren. :)

Yep. I had both Love's Baby Soft (remember the jingle?) and Love's Fresh Lemon, which smelled suspiciously like Lemon Pledge.
Alluring.
But don't you agree that the stinkiest perfume of them all was Jungle Gardenia?

A company called Tinte sells the lip gloss in a tin. Of course, it's now about 15.00, which is, adjusted for inflation, probably equivalent to 2.50 in 1980 baby-sitting dollars.

Check it out:

http://www.tintecosmetics.com/home.html

i was so jealous of my friend who got the loves baby soft set of like four different bottles... i remember a pink a purple and a yellow for sure... i think there was a fourth? probably blue?

ooh... and that list... it is quite applicable to me and i grew up in the 80s... not to be annoyingly specific or anything... holly hobbie was the bomb... i even got a holly hobbie birthday cake when i was about 5 or so... it was the COOLEST! if only i still had my metal holly hobbie lunch box still... *sigh*

I had holly hobbie knock-off wallpaper in my bedroom. Very prairie. And I so could relate to Laura Ingalls!

Lived on Sweet Valley High books, and was jealous of twins because of them. When my family moved to CA, the junior high I went to was South Valley Junior High, and always made me thinks of the books.

And I had a jumbo sized, square shaped, grape flavored Bonne Belle Lipsmacker. I still love me some lipsmackers! Wear more bonne belle gloss than actual lipstick. Makes lips happy!

While I too, wore Baby Soft I was more of a Love's Rain Scent kind of gal.
I once bought Stetson cologne because I liked someone who wore it.

I loved that Maybelline roll on stuff. It made your lips so greasy. Mmmm.
But I was a Lip Smacker whore. I had to have every single flavor when they came out. And not those little chap-sticky ones, I'm talking the honkin' large sized ones. Do they even make those anymore? Cherry Chocolate was my favorite, but the Watermelon one was pretty tasty...I mean smelled good too.

I think all men that wear Polo bathe in it, might be a law or something

You do know -- Neil Diamond has a new album out. A few candles, some Neil on the stereo, some Love's Baby Soft, that nice man you met at the Farmer's Market doughnut shop during your knitting group -- and who knows where things can go?

Someone I had a raging crush on in high school wore Drakkar Noir. I remember buying Drakkar Noir scented candles and burning them in my room while listening to The Smiths, wondering if I was going to die unloved and alone. And my mother complaining about the god-awful smell.
15 years later, I'm 30 and hopelessly single and I still sit in my room listening to depressing music, wondering if I am going to die alone. Except now I've graduated to organic scented candles and modern indie rock bands like I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.

cootie catchers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was obsessed with those!

Sweet Valley High! That reminds me of my best summer job EVER. When I was 11, I was a volunteer at the library, and I got to read all of the new Sweet Valley High books before we put them on the shelves. I loved it.

There was a rain scent with the Love's Baby Soft grup, wasn't there? I'm pretty sure. That was my favorite.

I was dating this guy who suprised me with a stuffed bunny for a birthday present. He had it hidden inside his zipped up jacket, and for the longest time, the bunny smelled like Polo. I loved it! Ah, memories. :o)

Haha..I remember all of it!!! I was born in 70...so I can relate to most of the 70's list and all of the 80's stuff from high school. I was definately a love's baby soft girl, as well as Jean Nate, and I distinctly remember getting the box with all four of Love's scents! Great Christmas that year. When I graduated to "grown up" perfume (around 9th grade) mine was pearls and lace from Avon. YUM They don't even make that anymore. Later years of course was Giorgio and Beautiful by estee' lauder.
Oh and Drakkar Noir can still make me weak at the knees. :D

As far as Lip gloss is concerned, I loved the tins, but my prized posession in 6th grade was my Dr Pepper (diameter of about 2 inches!!) lip gloss. A girl on the bus stole it from me and told the bus driver it was hers...I remember crying and saying I will bring the receipt back tomorrow...needless to say I was beleived and got it back. Hehe

Thanks so much for the trip down memory lane. It's been a blast! Glad your kitties are home at least and we are wishing them all well!

Kat

Yup. Me too with the bubble gum Lip Smackers and Love's Baby Soft. I once got Charlie perfume for Christmas from an aunt and thought I'd barf from the smell...that one spent a lot of time just sitting on my mirrored tray on my dresser. Also the cootie catchers were such fun to tell our fortunes.

Had to do the Holly Hobby embroidered kits for a Mother's Day present for my mom. She actually hung them in their bedroom (what a mom!). And the whole family was good about consuming my Easy Bake Oven successes and flops.

Thanks for bringing all of it back, Laurie!

OHHH!! I also wore the Dorothy Hammill haircut for about 3 years!! LOL

OMG - Big Dr. Pepper lip gloss! I'd put it on all over my lips so I could lick it off. I was in a store with my mom once shortly before Christmas and DESPERATELY wanted this one that looked like a pack of Wrigley Spearmint gym, and the silver part that was supposed to be like the gum pieces pulled out with TWO flavors of lip gloss. I threw a hissy fit right there in the store when she wouldn't get it for me. On Christmas day, it was in my stocking!

And that list of 70's things... Yes to every single one!

Aaaah, the memories!

hugs to the furbies.

I am old enough to remember Love's baby soft and old enough too, to remember "Peppermint Twist Lipstick". It was a must -have at 13 for my generation. I think it cost 59 cents a tube and made your lips look like you needed a blood transfusion.The smell and taste was yummy too. anyone remember?

Do you all remember Tame cream rinse (we didn't call it conditioner back them) and Prell shampoo? I can a specific bath using using both of those after using the slip 'n slide in the backyard one afternoon. My first summer at camp I had Revlon Flex shampoo...I can still remmeber the scent. And Faberge Organics Shampoo...I can remember that jingle

...the new first word is honey, honey
Faberge Organics shampoo
Shines your hair like you want it to
Tell a friend about the shine...
...
...wheat germ oil and honey's the trend,
pass it on and tell a friend

I don't know that scent, but I think you have Spring Fever. You should go out and show Mr. X how it's done! Also, very glad the kitties are back home. I was worried about them.

Drew, thanks for mentioning the Drakkar Noir. By the time I met a guy who wore that, I was so over the Polo. This is when I started college. My roommates and I would buy GQ so that we could tear out the Drakkar Noir samples and wave them around the apartment -- or use them kind of like scratch'n'sniff for study breaks. OK. We were kind of pathetic.

Laurie, I still have most of the books that you listed. Then again I used to teach middle school. I absolutely LOVED Sweet Valley High. They were my guilty pleasure and I hid them like some women hide Harlequin romances.

I'm so embarassed to admit this. I still love the Love's Baby Soft. I couldn't wait until my daughter was old enough to buy it for her for Christmas. Which I did until she was sick of it. Probably because she bathes in any perfume. I totally remember the lip gloss in the tin! Who made that?

For me, it's Deep Woods OFF! Mid-June in Pennsylvania, drowning in mosquitoes... good times.

OHMIGOD. Can I tell you how grateful i am that the guy i'm falling in love with right now does NOT wear Polo? And can I tell you how shocked but happy that he wears Drakkar Noir? Seriously, I about fell over the first time I smelled it on him. It may be half of why i love him. Seriously. So sad.

In the fourth grade, you HAD to have Holly Hobbie dolls and accessories and put them on your desk. You know those little plastic picnic tables she had with the plastic dishes and stuff? Sortof Hello Kitty ish but all country cottage-y. Woe betide anyone who did not own enough Holly Hobbie.

I'm over Holly but still addicted to Hello Kitty and I totally remember that watermelon lip gloss tin. LOVED the tin. Hated the gloss.

If you told two friends- and they tell two friends- and so on and son on...

Not so much into the Holly Hobbie, but definitely Lip Smackers in peppermint and root beer, the tin of lip gloss in green apple, Love's Baby Soft, and Blue Jeans. I had that lemon cologne stuff too and strawberry lip gloss. There was even lemon anti-perspirant, I must have smelled like a fruit salad. And the hair! Farrah Fawcett flip or Dorothy Hamill bob...

Avon used to make all these cute little pots of lip gloss in different shapes. One of my favorites was a plastic hamburger, the top bun unscrewed and there was a frosty peach and frosty deep pink lip gloss inside. Great care to be taken to avoid getting lip gloss on teeth.

My brother used to slather on English Leather before he went on a date. The bathroom reeked of it for hours, although it's actuallly a very nice scent. Remember the slogan? "My men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all". Probably wishful thinking on my brother's part. :)

I am 28 and wearing Lip Smackers Dr. Pepper gloss right now! I keep it in my desk drawer.

I also wore Love's Baby Soft, that was until Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth cologne came out and I wore that like it was my job. Ahhh, memories.

I still wear Drakkar on special occasions, if you know what I mean I think you do!

*wink wink, so no more say no more*

Useless trivia: Bonne Bell Lip Smackers were made in my hometown. If your mom didn't work there, one of your friend's mom's did, so we never had to buy it!

My favorite was bubble gum. Remember the GIANT ones?

Oooh, I love that ya'll remember all this stuff, too :)

Wow, Love's Baby Soft...just the other day I was at Target with my daughter and I walked into the bathroom and it wreaked of LBS...it took me back. My 14 year old daughter had NO idea what I was talking about. Kids today. I think I prefer cats :-)

eeck. i'll admit it - i bought my husband a bottle of Cool Water by davidoff because i dated a guy yearrrrssss ago for two weeks who wore that and i liked it. that was the only good thing about that guy.

ah, reminiscing.

OMG - The creme rinse!!! My dad used to buy it in gallon jugs and water it down...weird. But the Herbal Essences with the funky earth mama on the label. Now that was some shampoo.

I am too old for Sweet Valley but Betsy, Tacy and Tib totally takes me back. Wow. I remember learning what a calling card was from those books(and not the kind you use now to call people).

I remember getting the package with all 4 Love's scents one lucky birthday - I worked my way thru them one at a time: Baby Soft, Lemon; Rain; Musky Jasmine - once I tried the Musky Jasmine, I was in heaven & I never wore the others again! With Herbal Essence Shampoo & Conditioners it smelled delicious!

I remember getting the package with all 4 Love's scents one lucky birthday - I worked my way thru them one at a time: Baby Soft, Lemon; Rain; Musky Jasmine - once I tried the Musky Jasmine, I was in heaven & I never wore the others again! With the original Herbal Essence Shampoo & Conditioners it smelled delicious! (or so I thought!)
Prell - I remember getting in trouble for dropping one of my Grandma's pearls in the bottle of Prell shampoo to see if it would float the way it did in the commercial! (it didn't)

Oops! I got interrupted by a phone call & didn't realize I'd submitted already, went back & kept on writing & hit submit again - my bad! Sorry!

Geeyourhairsmellsterrific shampoo.

Pssssssssssssssst powder spray shampoo.

Shampoo made with BEER.

My mom made us try all the freaky stuff.

Don't forget about Avon's "Sweet Honesty" that smells something like bubble gum, but with a twist. That was my 13 year old jones, which later became things like the Sandalwood, Patchouli, and Ylang-ylang solid perfume thingies made by some hippie company whose name I can't remember now. And Clairol's Herbal Essence Shampoo -- pre-orgasm-inducing, I mean.

Those were the days...

Did anyone else LOVE the Farrah Fawcett shampoo? OMG the smell was sooooo good. I think it was made by Fabrege. Didn't make my hair look like hers, which was kinda the whole point...but it sure smelled good.

Smith's Rosebud Salve (aka Rosita). Also Love Carmex.

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mothers!

I used to know a Robert Allison in school who stuck toy cars up his nose.

Ah yes. Lipsmackers. I totally remember those. And summer camp. And swimming in water that I wouldn't put my toe in now. And it's a beautiful day here. Sigh. Why am I stuck inside working?

Love's Baby Soft RAIN SCENT was my perfume of choice...until they discontinued it. I think i may have cried. And anytime I happened to be anywhere they still had a couple bottles of it, I'd snatch them up!

Love's Baby Soft = good
Love's Soft Lemon = better

I'm still a sucker for lemony, even thirty years later.

For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.

Maybe nothing softer, either.

meanwhile...back at the roller rink...
ours was known as 'the rolladium,' and back in 6th grade, my first boyfriend had a girl in our class call me up on the phone to 'break up' with me on his behalf. the reason? he didn't think i'd make-out with him at the rolladium! i wonder if he remembers that, too...?

Laurie, I knew you were my twin! Your posting brought back so many memories. And thanks to Jen for sharing the "You know you were a little girl in the '70s if..."

Betsy and Tacy takes me back. I didn't think anyone else in the world read that book. I was the only one that checked that book out of my grade school library. I must have checked it out 10 times over the years. I wanted to live in an old Victorian house and have a little sister named Star, too.

And, oh yeah, Love's Baby Soft rocked my 7th grade world!

What does it mean if you suddenly find that you like Jean Nate? I hate those strong purfumes. Does that mean I'm too old?? Hey........

I never really liked the Love's Baby Soft, I think because every girl in my class had it and I got kind of sick of it. I liked Love's Rain and Love's Fresh Lemon (I think that's what it was called....don't remember...that was so long ago). I remember those lip gloss tins too! Wow, I hadn't thought about those things at all since I used them.

Wow. I haven't thought of that lip gloss in a tin in years. My favorite was butterscotch. And I wore Love's Baby Soft as my first perfume, and then all through high school - I wore Verve for a while in junior high. Can't remember who made it, but it was all over Teen magazine in 1987. Some girl broke a bottle of Electric Youth in the locker room in 8th grade, and I never could bring myself to wear it after that.

I was surprised at how much of the girl in the 70s list applied to me, because I was born in 1975. But I am from a rural Minnesota town- time moves slower there. Some of those things extended beyond the 70s in my hometown!

Dang you just brought me way back! I remember the lipgloss in the tin but can't remember the name! I'm too young to forget shit....

Oh My God. LBS and Judy Blume and Holly Hobbie, and Donny and Marie. And Mr. Hooper was still kicking around on Sesame Street, and everyone thought Mr. Snuffaluffagus was a figment of Big Bird's mind.
I'm completely lost in the memories.

And, my best friend and I would sneak "Forever" to a corner of the library and read the dirty parts. I tried to take it out, and the old bag librarian said she was going to call my mom to see if I was allowed to read it.

I'm drinking from my new CAP mug, y'all! (and it's not coffee).

I can't listen to Neil Diamond without getting skeeved out either, though I suspect this has to do with it being Neil Diamond :D

Lip gloss is the best. Cheers!

Yes, Valley Lip Lickers! (I was just thinking about those tins the other day, couldn't recall the name.) I got my one and only bottle of LBS in 9th grade, as a school choir Secret Santa gift, but rarely used it b/c I was a tomboy. Later I was all about Lady Stetson and Xia Xiang, once I discovered my feminine side. Question: Anyone recall the brand of jeans with the ice cream cone on the label? I think they came in pastel shades: baby pink, sky blue, mint green.

I *HEART* ROY.... poor lil fella.

I can't believe I had forgotten about Love's Baby Soft!!! :)

I am right there with the sliding tin (my favorite was a cream-soda-and-grape combination, as well as Dr. Pepper lip smackers -- which I still use to this day!). And the Love's Baby Soft. It can't be any worse than all the guys that smelled like Brut, though!!

Wow love's baby soft...remember the guy in the ad? I had the biggest on him. And Tea Rose! I used Tea Rose all the time. Wow what great memories...thanks!

wind song! i never wore it, but i still remember the commercial..
"i cant seem to forget you...
your wind song stays on my miiiind"
what was the shampoo ad that said
"..and she'll tell two friends and so on and so on and so on.." ?

all i can say is, i've been reading knitting blogs way too long: in my head, i pronounced [yes, i read out loud silently--and i know you know exactly what that means] "crotchety" as "cro-SHAY-ey," as in, "like, of, or related to crochet," not as "CROTCH-etty," as in "cranky."
i have GOT to get out more.

the shampoo was Faberge Organics, see Laura's email above and I wanted Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific, but my family was strictly Suave haircare. The Vermont Country Store actually sells some of this stuff, including the Tangee lipstick- along the same lines remember that blusher stick that also changed color according to your skin? It was a cream-colored in the tube and changed to somewhere in the spectrum that ran from ORANGE-peach-pink-FUSCHIA. What were we thinking? besides this stuff was really cool, of course.

That Maybelline lip gloss was sticky, I loved it but hated it when my hair got caught in my goopy, shiny lips when it was windy. The perils of beautification...

Laurie - Origins makes a scent called GLOOM AWAY that is lemony/citrusy. You might like it.

Ha I had to laugh a lot reading this. I remember being ten and loving Bonne Bell and John Cougar's "Hurt So Good" and living on a very hick little island in the Puget Sound, where every mama was hoping that their little girls would escape.
You have inspired me to remember my fifth grade on my blog.
Very cute!
Mia
Ps We are of the same vintage - Pat Benetar, Johhny Cougar and who the hell was that lady who sang "I've been to paradise but I've never been to me....oohooohooohhh. Oh my look what you have started

Laurie, I just finished baking your grandmother's cake recipe! Oh my goodness, it smells fantastic, the icing is on it and I can't wait to eat it later tonight! I am taking it to my mom's for dinner :)

Have a great weekend! Happy mom's day. I hope your cats are feeling better to celebrate with you!

Aw...what a nice post. I had LBS and the lemon version as well. And I had 4-H camp...with Dale T., who danced with me on the last night to "Color My World," and boy did he ever!

I married my gray flannel guy. And umpty years later, I still won't let him throw away the bit that's left. I need a fix now and then, ya know. And the giant bubblegum lipsmacker was so cool. My little sister once got into my lipsmacker stash...ruined all the little ones, even the dr. pepper and 7 up. I think I still haven't forgiven her. heh. Thanks for the trip back in time!

my first boyfriend used to drive an old Ford pick-up
that always had the odor of gasoline in the cab. Sometimes, when I fill-up at the pump, the smell memory takes me to those exciting nights of dizzy (well, duh...) new love. When he sold that truck for a new Honda Civic (remember the gas crunch of 1980?) things were never quite the same between us...

Back then I wore "Lauren" perfume.

I think I love you! This brings back so many memories - did Love's Baby Soft span the ages? Please say you had a Goody comb in your back pocket when you went roller skating! Have a great Sunday!

I can't believe I'm not the only one who thinks about these things. I was a strawberry lip tin girl and I also wore Love's Baby Soft until they came out with the Lemon Scent. Then, I think around the start of high school, my mom started letting me use her Jean Nate, Windsong and Emeraude. I was so grown up.

As a matter of fact, I think I was wearing Love's Baby Soft when I got proposed to for the first time. It was at the church Bazaar which we held in the school cafeteria. David Picoli bought a ring at the Bazaar and then pulled me into an empty room and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes!! After all, he was an "older" man. He was in 6th grade and I was in 4th. He gave me a kiss - on the cheek - and presented me with the ring. A couple of weeks later I couldn't find it. Found out that my mom threw it away. I was soooo mad at her. She finally asked why I was so upset and I told her that my fiance was going to be pretty mad that she threw away such an expensive ring. After all, he spent a whole 25 cents!! She didn't know about the whole fiance thing up til then. She was pretty upset about the whole thing. I'll have to remind her about this today when we take her out to dinner. Should be good for a couple laughs. :)

PS - I'm really glad the kids are doing better.

Wasn't the roll-on Maybelline lip gloss called "Kissing Potion"? I wasn't allowed to have it since it had kissing in it. Maybe my mom thought that I would kiss someone if I wore it. I did have the lio gloss tins and the Bonne Bell stuff.

I LOVED Sweet Valley High, and I have a twin sister! :-)

Wow that brought me back with the ORIGINAL Clairol Herbal Essences the packaging and scent were totally different than today. They had this really hippie looking cartoon/drawn women with all these flowers in her hair. The shampoo was really green like the character Shrek. It smelled good though. It's nice to skip down memory lane.

Wasn't the roll-on Maybelline lip gloss called "Kissing Potion"? I wasn't allowed to have it since it had kissing in it. Maybe my mom thought that I would kiss someone if I wore it. I did have the lio gloss tins and the Bonne Bell stuff.

I LOVED Sweet Valley High, and I have a twin sister! :-)

Wow that brought me back with the ORIGINAL Clairol Herbal Essences the packaging and scent were totally different than today. They had this really hippie looking cartoon/drawn women with all these flowers in her hair. The shampoo was really green like the character Shrek. It smelled good though. It's nice to skip down memory lane.

Sorry for the double post. It came up a message about "abusive posters" and that I'd need to repost, I guess it came up twice.

I totally loved the Village lip gloss tins, that was some good stuff! I sure remember the Baby Soft but I don't remember if I had any myself.

But...I STILL have my original full-size bottle of Love's Lemon Fresh! Acquired in 1978 or 1979, it is nearly 28 years old (about a year younger than my fiance...eep). Still mostly full, and it is still wearable.

For us, it was Fetish. Fetish perfume, body lotion, lipgloss. I cam across an old bottle of the perfume last year when my mom moved and was amazed at how downright slutty it smelled. Weird.

Holy crap! I forgot about Love's Baby Soft. I loved that stuff. I wonder if they still make it? I want to smell it right now!

Village Lip Lickers - ayep, I kept one tin (strawberry flavor) which I now use to house snaps, hooks and eyes in my sewing kit.

Does anyone else remember the 3-part solid perfume (I think put out by Coty)? It looked similar to an eyeshadow compact and had a strip of lilac, honeysuckle, and lily-of-the-valley perfumes. Wow, I loved that stuff. Seriously. Would pay money to get another one now!

And I didn't wear Love's, but there was a fragrance called "Zany" by Avon that I wore my first year in college. Kinda had a Love's Baby Soft vibe to it, but a bit more of an edge (not as powdery). Every time I wore it, guys would stop to ask me what I was wearing. Now THAT my friends, is a damn fine perfume.

WOW!!!!! A definite blast from the past. I truly thought I would never find anyone else who loved that stuff outside of my wee little town....

More proof that Canadians and Americans DO have a lot in common..

from - one with a small town childhood up in the great white north

I was the rebel - I prefered Love's Fresh Rain! (Still do, if I could ever find it...)
Ahhh, I want those days back again! Well, some of them. Some should be left behind forever.
Glad the ktties are home and making your life difficult. That's what they do so well...

You have a birthday coming in about a month, no? I understand...I turn 40th on June 21 (I think you are a few days "behind" me), and I've been in such a ponderous/morose mood lately. Come the end of June, I think we'll be feeling much better. In the meantime, go to the drugstore and take a whiff of Love's Baby Soft and buy yourself some of that rollerball-type lipgloss.

I still remember the smell of my Dr. Pepper lipsmacker. It was also huge and I went through a bunch of 'em.

I was at a Red Sox game the other night (in the rain) and Tom Wopat sang the national anthem. Good voice!

My mid-seventies high school daze: Jean Nate' for sure. Q.T. tanning lotion. Sun-In. White Shoulders (very sophisticated). Dr. Sholl's sandals. Flicker razors. Green or blue mascara - Maybelline. Liquid eye liner. Sparkley blush in a big fat tube. Curling iron. Frost and Tip. Baby shampoo. And, last but not least, iodine mixed with baby oil to sunbathe oneself to a crisp. Oh, the list could go on and one.

I forgot NAIR!

"Babe" perfume. "Have an Aviance night." "If you want to capture someone's attention, whisper."

The taglines of my life. No wonder I grew up to go into marketing!

I saw on CNN (I think?) this morning that they have come out with a "Play-Doh" perfume for those who loved the smell. Now you can wear it and remember all those hours and hours of fun.

Oooh, I saw the play-doh perfume mentioned in the Parade in the Sunday paper, I may need to buy me some :)

"I told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on and so on..." God I hated those stupid ads!

I remember the smell of Prell from my wee little kid days. And the box of Toni perm that Mom never worked up the courage to use.

Totally addicted to Laura Ingalls Wilder and Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books because they were both sometime Minnesotans. My grandma knew one of the Ingallses -- a relative of Peter, Pa's brother. Some of them were still in the Lake City/Rochester, MN area when I was a kid (remember the totally scary crossing frozen Lake Pepin part of the saga?).

Man, am I tripping down memory lane. You guys forced me onto the web to look up my old elementary school. They still have the Roadrunner as their mascot and red, white & blue as their school colors, just like we chose by vote back when I was a student!

Hated LBS (Rain Scent girl, me) but I'm glad it's still there. It's comforting.

This is oh so sad.

I have some Loves Baby Soft. I still wear it. 29 year old stay at home Mom to 3 and I still rock the baby soft.

Stop laughing.

I found this website because I have been on a 2 week internet search for the lipgloss in the sliding tins! The stuff we got was called Dr. something, loved the bubblegum.
I wear Dr. Pepper now.
Didn't really get into the LBS but my older sister had a bottle of the lemon stuff she HOARDED and would never share-one day she really pissed me off and I made my little sister pee in it.

Ahhh, yes. Although I'm too young to know about the seventies the eighties still had a lot of the stuff you guys just mentioned. Personally, I'll never forget;

1. Trixie Beldon and Nancy Drew novels. Although Sweet Valley High/twins, Judy Blume and Babysitters club are also pretty high on the list for those of us a decade on.

2. "Cabbage Patch Dolls" and "My Little Ponies"

3. The TV show "Monkey Magic" - from Journey to the West.

4. Maguiver - (Can't remember how to spell this).

5. "Voltron" and "Masters of the Universe".

oh, the list goes on...

THe beer shampoo - it was "Body on Tap"

I just did a google search to figure out how the heck to spell Jean Nate and found your blog. I was looking because I was going to add in my own memories to the "If you were a girl in the 70s" . I added my link to my blog if you want to drown in my self-indulgence...lol.

I love your blog! It's fabulous and everyone's memeories are just giving me goosebumps. I can hear the click of the lip gloss tin now. And that smell of "Wheat Germ Oil and Honey"!

I was just in Target breathing in the smell of the Prell shampoo. They seem to have the original green gel back on the market....maybe it never went away???

I have a birthday on June 21st too, Sandra. I'll be 33.

Keep on down the memory lane everybody!

I just did a google search to figure out how the heck to spell Jean Nate and found your blog. I was looking because I was going to add in my own memories to the "If you were a girl in the 70s" . I added my link to my blog if you want to drown in my self-indulgence...lol.

I love your blog! It's fabulous and everyone's memeories are just giving me goosebumps. I can hear the click of the lip gloss tin now. And that smell of "Wheat Germ Oil and Honey"!

I was just in Target breathing in the smell of the Prell shampoo. They seem to have the original green gel back on the market....maybe it never went away???

I have a birthday on June 21st too, Sandra. I'll be 33.

Keep on down the memory lane everybody!

I was having a hard time remembering the brand name for those lip glosses and did a search and here it is in this great site. Love's Baby Soft! Oh, the memories. LOL. Glad I was forgetful today, because I have really enjoyed the flashbacks. I'll stop in again sometime.
P.S. I still have all of my teen romance books (and I read a lot of them). Beverly Clearly was my favorite, along with Bloom. I have my original set of Sweet Valley High. I was going to pass this on to my daughter, but as life sometimes works out they will all go to my nieces instead.

Does anyone know if Faberge Organics wheat and honey shampoo still is being sold ANYwhere????