My thift store fine yesterday-Dial Soap!

[sikiguya]

Yesterday I came across 10 bars of vintage Dial soap, new in the package. Color=PINK!
They smell so good, even after all these years. There is no date on them but with some research, I traced them back to around 1965-ish.
Here is an ad showing the soap, mine is in the pink wrapper on the bottom.

 

[toggleswitch2]

They made soap in aqua?

I just love clean and vintage establishments.

Did it have the orignal price-tag on it?

 

[danemodsandy]

Coloured Bath Supplies:

Toggles:

During the '50s, '60s, and up into the '70s, there were a lot of bathroom supplies available in colour. Soap was one- Dial and Lux, among others, came in yellow, blue/aqua, pink and white; there was also some availability of green. Toilet paper was another- same colours- and so was Kleenex. The idea was that you were supposed to buy paper that matched your bath, or contrasted with it. Blue/aqua for baths in that colour, for instance, but yellow might be used to contrast with green tile.

In the '70s, "deep" colours became the trend, with darker blues and avocado greens. But these colours used heavy-metal inks, which were pollutants, and environmentalists eventually got manufacturers to stop making them.

Now, with manufacturers cutting costs every way they know how, colours are pretty much gone, because it takes too much time and attention to keep four or five colours in stock in stores, to say nothing of retailers' feelings about tying up that much shelf space.

The only real remnant of this bit of midcentury luxury is today's patterned paper towels and napkins. Those were once available in the same colours bath supplies were.

 

[whirlcool]

You know, now that I come to think of it I haven't seen colored toilet paper in quite some time. I never thought of it. We have always used white so we never noticed the lack of colors lately.

 

[sudsmaster]

Dial gives me zits in unusual places.

I remember the colored paper bath products. Never did see the deep colors mentioned, just the faint pastels. Not sure it was really all that much of an issue, considering the large amount of colored newsprint produced and discarded daily. But I guess the newsprint isn't flushed down loo. I do remember the push to buy only non-dyed paper products in the early 70's. I guess Berkeley was a bit ahead of its time there.

 

[little-edie]

not sure, but i think i recall avacado-colored toliet paper.

it would've been mid/late 60s.....when that color was hot. my memory tells me that the color was pretty dark. i don't recall any harvest gold t.p., but it would've made sense, they both being the colors of the moment. isn't this also the time that kleenex came out with "boutique" tissues, in the square box? how did we live with ourselves & our grooviness?

 

[launderess]

Not Just Toliet Paper

But Kleenex used to come in colours as well, besides the pretty boxes.

Many a housewife would stand in the paper section of the supermarket having a dither about choosing the right coloured paper for various rooms. One for the powder room, another for master bathroom, another for the children's bath and so forth.

Remember pink, blue, and perhaps a shade of pale green toilet paper and Kleenex.

 

[petek]

Colored toilet paper disappeared in the early 70's iirc in the first wave of environmental awareness. It was thought that the dyes used in the manufacturer were harmful to the environment, not considering that the white stuff is pretty much itself bleached and colored to make it so white.

Real extravagance,, toilet paper that matched the bathroom wallpaper.. yes it existed,, my aunt had it,, where and how I have no clue

 

[whitekingd]

colored toilet paper

Scott tissue still makes colored toilet paper! The local K-Mart stores here were carrying it for about a year, but recently dropped it. No one within a hundred mile radius carries it, according to the Scott tissue people. When I've asked a store to order it, they reply that it is no longer made.

Funny thing. The first time I found it at K-Mart, and put a package in my cart, I had three people comment on it before I got to the register! It did sell!

 

[danemodsandy]

WHITEKINGD:

I checked the Scott website, and you are correct. According to the site, the Scott 1000 tissue (the mega-roll) is available in "soft colours", but the site does not say what the colours are.

 

[laundromat]

"please don't squeez the Charmin!---Mr Whipple!!!&q

I remember some of the brands like Charmin having a hint of perfume in them.

 

[laundromat]

While living in kissimmee,Fl.,one of the Hispanic grocery stores I went to to buy meats had pink tiolet paper from Scott.

 

[whirlcool]

Remember when "Puffs" used to have a nice scent to them? Then they came out with the Puffs drenched in oil that made you all greasy? Then as a final assault, they dropped the scent!

 

[mattl]

I remember all the various colors toilet paper used to come in, plus I remember some that came in prints. My mother used to buy some that had little pink roses on it for her pink bathroom.

I remember one of the problems with the color coordinated stuff was that when you ran out of the pink stuff the yellow from the other bath bath looked awful in there.

 

[sikiguya]

No original price tags Toggle. Since these were from 7 years beore I was born, I have no idea what th original price would be!

 

[sikiguya]

Price

I paid $.44/each for these at the thrft store. Couldn't beat the price!

 

[oldhouseman]

I remember

My aunt asking my grandmother why she insisted on still making home made soap and the reply was "I'm not paying 18 or 20 cents for a bar of soap when I can make it. That was about 1969 or 70. I also remember news stories about the negative effects of some of the chemical dyes used, especially in toilet tissue. Apparently the human body absorbed something from the paper when it was used. YUK!