Exotic Packaging: Original Formula Holly & Frankincense Soap

Merry Christmas from this 1987 soap packet!

The soap was made with myrrh, brandy oil, cinnamon, mandarin, bay orange, holly leaf and frankincense. 

What on earth does a holly leaf smell of I wonder? Or does it have amazing medicinal properties?

Exotic Packaging: Boots Original Formula Oil of Evening Primrose

Back in the 1980s when Boots the Chemist had a brand called Original Formula. And here we have the packaging from the rich moisture balm and the skin balm carefully preserved by my mother. She thought it was a pretty design and so do I.

Exotic Packaging: An Original Formula Bluebell & Mistletoe Soap

It's great that one of these An Original Formula soap boxes has a date on it: 1983. So long ago!

I remember An Original Formula products (for No:7 at Boots) very well. They were always beautifully designed and the brand was all about using natural ingredients.

Exotic Packaging: An Original Formula Seaweed & Sweet Sedge Soap

When was this? In the 1980s maybe? 

Boots the Chemist had a very nice brand - An Original Formula - which was supposed to be made from all natural products. 

Pretty revolutionary in those days.

But the packaging was quite beautiful. And this is a soap box.