A pink medicinal cream query.

[weenie]

You can still get Germoline, blue tube with pink writing... my dad always used it on us, and i always use it on my children

[Patexpat]

Reginal Perrin wrote: I always thought Root Beer tasted like Germolene smelled. I had never connected the two, but now you mention it .... hate root beer anyway!

[The Parksider]

Leodian wrote: When I was a kid a few years (!!!) back there used to be a pink cream with a distinctive smell in a small thin tin that was put on cuts and scratches to help heal. For the life of me I cannot recall its name. It may still be around but if so I've not noticed it. Help please. Thanks. If it was pink it could be Calamine lotion, but as it was a cream then maybe camomile lotion but camomile leaves are green aren't they??I got some sort of kiddies skin condition and the remedy was calamine lotion, poured from a ribbed bottle and painted all over my body.Years later in the Dales I came across calamine house near the lead mines. They mined calamine (called smithsonite in the USA) and crushed it to powder in the house to make lotion. It's zinc carbonate I think so maybe the zinc cleared up the skin problem.I also remember Carbolic soap and nit combs.I'm not that old but the early 60's remedies were often light years away from what we have today......

[The Parksider]

The Parksider wrote: I'm not that old but the early 60's remedies were often light years away from what we have today...... My mum gave me liquid parrafin to sort out constipation, a thickish clear tasteless liquid from a spoon. My wife reckons my mum was trying to bump me off.Anyone else ever get that remedy??

[kango]

The Parksider wrote: The Parksider wrote: I'm not that old but the early 60's remedies were often light years away from what we have today...... My mum gave me liquid parrafin to sort out constipation, a thickish clear tasteless liquid from a spoon. My wife reckons my mum was trying to bump me off.Anyone else ever get that remedy?? Never had it Myself parksider , but looking at this quote from wiki-what-not I think mrs parksider may be right!!"Liquid paraffin - as Liquid Paraffin Oral Emulsion BP - is considered to have a limited usefulness as an occasional laxative, but is unsuitable for regular use as it can seep from the anus and cause irritation; it can interfere with the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins; it can be absorbed into the intestinal wall and may cause foreign-body granulamatous reactions; and if it enters the lungs it can cause lipoid pneumonia"!!??

[Leodian]

The Parksider wrote: Leodian wrote: When I was a kid a few years (!!!) back there used to be a pink cream with a distinctive smell in a small thin tin that was put on cuts and scratches to help heal. For the life of me I cannot recall its name. It may still be around but if so I've not noticed it. Help please. Thanks. If it was pink it could be Calamine lotion, but as it was a cream then maybe camomile lotion but camomile leaves are green aren't they??I got some sort of kiddies skin condition and the remedy was calamine lotion, poured from a ribbed bottle and painted all over my body.Years later in the Dales I came across calamine house near the lead mines. They mined calamine (called smithsonite in the USA) and crushed it to powder in the house to make lotion. It's zinc carbonate I think so maybe the zinc cleared up the skin problem.I also remember Carbolic soap and nit combs.I'm not that old but the early 60's remedies were often light years away from what we have today...... Some 43 years back I went into Pikedaw Calamine Caverns near Malham. It was (probably still is if it is still accessible) an old mined area that had fairly extensive natural passages leading out from a 75 foot entry/exit shaft. I recall the caverns were very muddy! PS. As a kid I recall being given liquid paraffin, though what for I was unsure until I read the 2 posts above!    

[The Parksider]

kango wrote: "Liquid paraffin - as Liquid Paraffin Oral Emulsion BP - is considered to have a limited usefulness as an occasional laxative, but is unsuitable for regular use as it can seep from the anus and cause irritation; it can interfere with the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins; it can be absorbed into the intestinal wall and may cause foreign-body granulamatous reactions; and if it enters the lungs it can cause lipoid pneumonia"!!?? O.M.G......I feel feint!!Is there a doctor on the web site chameleon????Mummy clearly never loved me.........

[The Parksider]

Leodian wrote: Some 43 years back I went into Pikedaw Calamine Caverns near Malham. It was (probably still is if it is still accessible) an old mined area that had fairly extensive natural passages leading out from a 75 foot entry/exit shaft. I recall the caverns were very muddy! PS. As a kid I recall being given liquid paraffin, though what for I was unsure until I read the 2 posts above!     You and me both then!!!!The Parrafin Twins!!Malham ain't that good for Lead compared with the Dales, but what a diversity of minerals. On pikedaw they also mined Copper as Azurite and Malachite, you can still find these greeny blue bits of stone around there....And of course the "nodding donkeys" of the liquid parrafin wells....

[York Road Lad]

Leodian wrote: When I was a kid a few years (!!!) back there used to be a pink cream with a distinctive smell in a small thin tin that was put on cuts and scratches to help heal. For the life of me I cannot recall its name. It may still be around but if so I've not noticed it. Help please. Thanks. You might be thinking of Fullers Earth.

[jdbythesea]

Leodian wrote: STICKS wrote: Have you seen the Germolene part added by Mrs STICKS Ah, Germolene. That's it. I really should have remembered that. The other day I overheard two older ladies (60+) talking over a coffee. One of them said something, which I didn't quite catch, but her friend replied, rather indignantly, "Well, what did she want me to do break out in spots and eat Germolene?" Now, that's an expression I haven't heard for a long, long time.