I remember seeing my mother use that mascara!

To go along with Sylvia's response -- it's really, really difficult to find cake eyeliner these days. Chanel still makes one, but they only offer it in black now, and I don't wear black eyeliner (or black mascara, for that matter).

I can't recall the manufacturer, but there is no longer a product called "Lip Fix," which was one of the best things ever made. It came in a small tube (like the tubes that Neosporin come in - LOL), and you put a little bit on your finger tip and then applied it to your lips. It kept your lipstick from "bleeding." OK, I'm editing this to add that the Lip Fix was made by Elizabeth Arden, and apparently they're making a version of it these days. But I can guarantee you that it didn't cost $22.50 back when I was buying it!!!

I loved the fragrance of the dark green Herbal Essence shampoo from the 70's.

Black Jack gum. Candy cigarettes. And there used to be a little yellow stick in a plastic container used for rubbing stains off your teeth. It looked like a little piece of chalk.

Fluffo Shortening made the best pie crust ever. Yardley Slickers lipstick and gloss, Pond's Angel Face makeup, Red's Frozen Tamales and Mother's Cookies that were local SF Bay Area products, Sea and Ski tanning lotion, the powdered bubble bath that came in little cardboard tubes, Tangee lipstick, Lifeboy Soap, Honda 50 Super Cubs, Roller Derby Street King skates, metal cap guns. There are dozens of products that still carry the name that are nothing like the original. Makes me grumpy. LOL

Blockbuster. I so enjoyed perusing the shelves, especially the foreign films and documentaries. I know I can look on Netflix, however there was something special about going to Blockbuster and asking them to search the just returned bin for that new release.

Remember those little washcloths that were so thin, but when they got wet they "grew?"

We were poor so we never got to buy brand name stuff. I remember a dry shampoo called Psssssst!!! Never used it but always thought it was cool!

I just got a catalog for Vermont Country store they have the old products including makeup and the cake eyeliner and mascaras. All kinds of things that will probably be mentioned in this thread.

Hallmark Baked Beans, my Mom used to make them - dried beans with other ingredients in a box that you mixed up and baked .

I was just thinking about Pearl Drops tooth polish last night. Also they used to have frozen minute steaks that came in a package of four...I would fry them up with eggs for breakfast. They were really good, can't find anything similar now.

There are so many things that I miss.

I remember those little frozen steaks with the pat of butter in the middle. A quick after school snack.

I miss Taco Bell's Bell Beefer and the Jack Steak from Jack In the Box.

Also miss the days when any diner, coffee shop or family restaurant could whip up a real ice cream soda. No, young ones, a float is not a soda. Using bottled soda doesn't count either.

There was a cologne called 'Bluegrass', I think - that smelled like freshly cut grass .

My grandmother always has a little tin of Rosebud salve. I loved it, it smelled just like roses. She would put it on her lips and cheeks it had a light pink color.

Oleomargarine that you had to mix the color yourself if you wanted it to look like butter. The stick of margarine came with a colorant ampoule inside the plastic tube. To color, one crushed the ampoule (without opening the tube) and kneaded the stick of margarine until the colorant was more or less evenly spread throughout the product. It was a messy and arduous job. If you lived in Wisconsin during the 50's, you had to put up with this nonsense if you wanted to use colored margarine. However, colored margarine was available in bordering states.

How did this come about? It was lobbying by the dairy industry. They could not stop the sale of margarine, but did get a rule passed to stop the sale of colored margarine. Margarine without added color is white - appears almost like a stick of lard. This silliness was eventually phased out, but in the meantime, it encouraged specialty shops to crop up on major highways at the state's borders. The most notable location was where I-94 now running from Chicago to Milwaukee crosses the state line. Shops on the Illinois side of the border advertised colored oleomargarine while only a few feet away on the Wisconsin side, competing shops sold Wisconsin cheese. It was a circus on busy weekends.

After this rule expired, these shops faded away. In their place are a smattering of hamburger and fast food joints.

LOVE cosmetics.

My Grandma always had salve too!!

Candy cigarettes are still made but not common with the anti-smoking fanatics out there. Also still made but not common are the bubble gum cigars. Sanka is still made too. My aunt was a wonderful cook but for some reason would only use instant coffee, and Sanka was the brand I remember.

How many oldsters can forget Burma Shave signs? Fizzies? The little tablets you dropped into water to make a terrible tasting drink but the fun was the plopping and watch it fizz. They once outsold Kool-Aid by a wide margin. Then there's Bromo Seltzer, who incidentally made the original Fizzies. Toni and Lilt home permanents that stunk up the house for days when my mother would use them! Stopette and Poof! deodorants.

Oleomargarine wasn't stopped but I do remember the stickers on there for 5¢ tax for colored margarine. Actually there was rationale for the argument since they were trying to sell it as butter when I find no problem believing it's not butter!

A favorite cookie of the family was the Aunt Sally Cookies. A molasses cookie with a white icing in a rectangular shape.

And as you bought the groceries you'd get trading stamps, S&H, Gold Bond and Holiday were just a few.

Let's see what else? Pudding Pops, Planter's Cheese Balls, Apple Newtons. Ivory Soap Flakes, aluminum (silver) Christmas trees with the color wheel light shining on it. Flocked Christmas trees. Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo and Hai Karate aftershave.

Yes Fizzies (they were horrid) and also the straws that would turn milk chocolate or strawberry.
Jade East cologne was also popular for the men. I really miss the original Old Spice. They still sell it but doesn't smell the same.

Jubilee Kitchen cleaner and Glass Wax along with the Bonami Bar that worked similar to Glass Wax.

"My men wear English Leather...or they wear nothing at all."

loved the Yardley products!

Today you can get Yardley Lavender soap, plus some other types, at Dollar Tree.

Max Factor had a mascara in a florentined gold-colored tube that I loved.

There was no brush; the end of the wand was the applicator.

It had spirals like a screw, & it worked *great*.

Where I grew up, there was a drugstore where you could get the best handmade ice cream sodas, & you could sit at the counter or in a booth.

& there was a K&W drive-in, complete with carhops & trays that clipped to your window & root beer, & if you ordered coffee, the cream was in tiny shot glass-sized glass K&W mugs.

"I just got a catalog for Vermont Country store they have the old products including makeup and the cake eyeliner and mascaras."

Yes, they have ONE cake mascara (black) but they do not carry cake eyeliner. In fact, they currently only have one eyeliner -- a "Precision Tip Liquid Eyeliner" -- but it does come in brown as well as black. I don't want liquid eyeliner, though.

And although I have bought lots of stuff from the Vermont Country Store, I have to say that their shipping costs are outrageous.

Sanka is still around. I bought a small jar of it not long ago. I can't say I liked it though. Remembering how often my mother-in-law drank it, I thought I would.

Amazon and eBay have a lot of discontinued makeup products. You just have to be aware that if it was discontinued 10 years ago, for instance, it's not likely to be very fresh.

Remember Ipana toothpaste? The song is stuck in my head to this day: "Brusha, brusha, try the new Ipana." I sing it to the dog when I brush his teeth.

Some might remember Tangee lipstick, which was supposed to turn just the right shade for you! Also, Lady Esther face cream. Wave set, usually green, which you used on clean hair to set finger waves.

Yeast "cakes" which one put to soak in water at bed time so that it could be used for the homemade bread which most families used. There was a big advertising push for a tonic called "Hadacol" which was probably iron and alcohol.

You can still buy Pssssst dry shampoo, I just saw it at 5 Below just a few days ago. You can buy those expanding wash clothes at Dollar Tree, they are usually up by the check outs.

You can use most eye shadows wet and using them as an eye liner.

Cutex lipstick was the very first lipstick I ever used in a light peach frost. I loved the smell of it.