Old tv advertisement, please set the memory in motion on this one?

Question

could you recall an ad for what i think was "Lifeboy toilet soap", when the scenario was set in an office and someone, i think female, had a odour problem, and people went about whispering BO! She then took the hint and was filmed behind a screen lathering and smelling sweeter next day. Was this being unpolitically correct at its worst i ask you?

Answer 1

remember asking my parents what BO meant

there was another about a sales assistant who had bad breath when she changed her tooth paste she got on better with customers

in those days no one had heard of a personal computer middle 80s before they appeared

Answer 2

I don't remember that one, but I do remember a diaper commercial (I think it was Huggies) that said it was better than the competitor at stopping "B.M. leaks" and then it showed a toy boat sitting in a diaper with liquid in it.  As if the toy boat was to represent "your B.M. here"  It was totally offensive.  Not long after that I saw it again and the voice-over had been changed to say "messy leaks."

Answer 3

I remember that ad - and it was before the personal computer was invented, so "PC" meant Mr Plod.  I don't see why it was politically incorrect though.

Answer 4

no  it was ok   the old ads  were the best      lot of rubbish  now the new ones

Answer 5

No.  Someone had to tell her.  We had a situation like that in our office.  I had to get up enough nerve to tell the person about their body odor, purchased some deodorant because this person would be attending the office Christmas party in a private room.  He took it okay and went to wash up and use the deodorant.  I think its wrong if you don't tell them.  I'd want someone to tell me if my breath or body odor was offensive.  

Answer 6

I think they were trying to sneak in a little cheesecake, that ad was a little s**y for it's day.

Answer 7

We didn't have toilet soap.  We did have toilet water, which was what we called a cheap knock off perfume that was made using flower petals soaked in water & alcohol.  

I DO remember that commercial...it was HILARIOUS.  I thought it was Zest BODY BAR SOAP, but it could have been Lifeboy Deodorant bar soap...it was a horrid drying product that made your skin feel like leather.  

People were all "abuzz" over the mere fact that they showed a woman appearing as if she were actually nude in the shower on a television commercial, which just was not done in those days.

Don't forget that the 60's were the days of the new miracle fibers & with all that Polyester & synthetic Nylon came BODY ODOR!  The deodorants were so potent that they often stained & ruined your clothing.  Add to that the smell of the dry cleaning fluids & the fact that everyone smoked & people really did smell worse in those days.  That's why us dirty hippies had fun mocking our parents & the rest of society...we smelled & we shoved it in their faces!

Answer 8

that was in the day when PC meant personal computer....  and not political correctness. However i remember ads like these and never found them offencive.

definitely lifeboy, those were the days when advertising wasn't so slick and in many cases sickly as they are now.

Answer 9

yes they had all sorts of scenarios based on what your best friend wont tell you - . One of them was strap hanging on the tube. I was about eight at the time and convinced my mother to buy lifebuoy soap and I remember its smell to this day.

No we didn't have either personal computers or political correctness it was a different social world entirely and we were just  experimenting with the boundaries of coyness and taboos. And what public would tolerate.  

Answer 10

Maybe.

The whisper was more like 'beeee ohhhh.

Why should colleagues have to put up with a pong after all?.

If I had Beeee ohhhh I would rather knooo0.