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23-10-2010, 02:33 PM
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Re: Long, Short Hair or Re-Style?

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i remember my mum and sisters doing 'Toni' home perms...it stank, they did a lot of strange things...'friar's balsam' springs to mind, was that a face pack?
Friar's balsam is a kind of antiseptic, good for cuts etc...

It is also good for colds, catarrh, bronchitis and suchlike.

Not sure what it would do if you used it as a face pack though
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23-10-2010, 02:48 PM
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oh, whoops maybe i've become confused, it used to be in a brown box, maybe that's what they used to put in a bowl of hot water with a towel over their head to clear the nose or something, the face pack stuff looked like mud
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23-10-2010, 02:58 PM
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Re: Long, Short Hair or Re-Style?

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oh, whoops maybe i've become confused, it used to be in a brown box, maybe that's what they used to put in a bowl of hot water with a towel over their head to clear the nose or something, the face pack stuff looked like mud
Yes, inhaling it in a bowl of hot water is one of its commonest uses.

You've now got me wondering what the muddy looking face pack was!!!
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Re: Long, Short Hair or Re-Style?

I still use Friars Balsham when I am really congested - history of sinus problems. As a child always seemed to be stuck over a bowl of it with a towel over my head.
 
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