If I crack open my vintage box of Cold Power detergent

[launderess]

Lifebuoy Carbolic Soap

Have a large stash of vintage Lifebuoy soap (surprise, surprise) and cannot say am exactly thrilled. Was like bathing with Lysol which isn't surprising as the active ingredient in both are cresols.

Gave a few bars away and IIRC have used perhaps two, the remaining sit stashed away. Found the stuff far to drying and irritating for use as a daily toilet soap. Could literally feel one's skin drying out in the shower. Would take the application of large amounts of body lotion to calm things down. Have to say the scent otherwise is rather a spicy medicinal scent. Familiar to anyone involved in nursing or medicine going back if not from just having been brought up with the stuff.

 

[michaelman2]

OMG...OMG....OMG....I know this woman....She was married my mother's cousin. Jeff whom she talks about the "Georgia red clay" and his pants...we were friends. I had remembered that she filmed a commercial but I had remembered it being Tide. I clicked on this and there was Julie...(Julia sounds much more refined)...she actually was a nice lady and Jeff and his sister Lisa were as wild as hell. All three gingers....going to forward this to my mom.

 

[supersuds]

Cool!

 

[supersuds]

Turns out, somebody did make a laundry product with hexachlorophene. By Pillsbury, yet!

For sale now on ebay; I'm not interested at the price but in case anybody else is:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sup...e-detergent-/301735587311?hash=item4640d7adef

 

[jamiel]

Interesting--never knew Pillsbury played in the cleaning products business....

 

[mikael3]

Miss Julie’s accent is truly fascinating to me.  I have actually never heard anyone speak in quite that way.  I’m not from Atlanta or Decatur, and neither is anyone else who lives here, so I have no idea what the real accent once sounded like.  Maybe this is it.

 

[launderess]

I just love how Miss. Julie

Makes that soft but sweeping pointing gesture towards her son Jeff who "gets into our Georgia red clay....). *LOL* Just so genteel like she was saying "Jemima set that tea tray down over there..". We all know it isn't polite to point but one must indicate where something is to go somehow...

 

[tennblondie78]

Being originally from Tennessee, she sounds just like several women in my family. I love to hear her say "Cold Power."

 

[frigilux]

I wonder if she's still on the planet? She might find it interesting that she has a following!

 

[circlew]

I just talked to a lady at ABC Financial in Arkansas today that sounded a lot like this lady in the commercial. I hear lots of people that have such an accent when I visit in Mississippi.

Why doesn't anyone in Atlanta have such an accent? Is the place totally filled with Yankees now?

 

[mikael3]

Atlanta is full of all types, including lots and lots of Southerners.  But they come from all over the South, and Miss Julie’s voice is not an accent I recognize.  It doesn’t sound like Alabama to me, and it definitely does not sound like East Tennessee or other mid-Appalachian accents, or their descendants in Texas and the Ozarks.  I can’t quite put my finger on it.  But it is certainly lovely.

 

[michaelman2]

Sorry, there is nothing refined or cultured about Julie's accent. I am as southern as they come and in 52 years I have come across very few people that speak with this dialect or accent. As mentioned above, I knew Julie and her family very well.

This accent was not a "put on" or exaggerated for her... I can barely stand to hear an actor use a southern accent that is not accurate. A cultured southern accent is very pleasing. (think Dixie Carter, Jimmy Carter). Usually someone trying to imitate a southern accent is WAY off.

A fake, poorly executed and faux accent grates on me. Typically they are portraying an uneducated, "redneck" person and even someone that might fit the bill for the aforementioned, rarely sounds as bad as someone trying to imitate the accent.

I remember this Cold Power ad so vividly because people immediately thought all people from Georgia sounded like this....we do not, even back in the early 1970s when this ad was filmed.