Soap - (Green)

When I was a child in the 1950's we used to have a bar of green soap in a soap dish by the kitchen sink for washing our hands.  It used to get a white deposit on it once it had been used and was drying.  If my memory serves me right it was a bar of Fairy Soap.

For washing woollens, by hand of course, my Mum would use Lux Soap Flakes which were marketed in the 1899 by Lever Bros. and rebranded as Lux Soap Flakes in 1900 .  We also has Lux toilet soap to use for hand and face washing as well but not exclusively.

These were some of the other soaps we would sometimes have:  Cousin's Imperial Leather which was often favoured by men, my father among them; Sunlight Soap which was a yellow bar soap; Wright's Coal Tar soap which was an orangey colour and an antiseptic soap and finally Pears soap which was a translucent honey coloured soap bar that reminded me of my Nan and the soap she used to use.