soaky soaks you clean in oceans full of fun
bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbly
clean before you're done
soaky soaks you clean and every girl and boy
gets a toy when it's empty
when it's empty it's a toy

soaky soaks you clean in oceans full of fun
bubbly bubbly bubbly bubbly
clean before you're done
soaky soaks you clean and every girl and boy
gets a toy when it's empty
when it's empty it's a toy


Does anyone remember an LP record album offered by Soaky with children favorite songs like Billy Goats Gruff, Crooked Man, Big Rock Candy Mountian. It even had a shortened version of the Mikado. 

Mr. Bubbles in the 70s. I liked it, until I found out I was allergic to something in it.

In a way, I'm hoping to find out what characters there were in the Soaky Collection?

I wasn't born in that era, but I'm VERY intrigued in that era of time!

Do you remember the live action TV commercials for it?  There were at least two.  They featured a hobo clown (a la Emmet Kelly) using the product to take a bath fully clothed in unbidden places, like a fountain, and being chased by a policeman who would of course face plant into the suds.

Colgate never said why they discontinued the product, but they may have been marginal about continuing it when they were sued circa 1970 after a child took a bath with it, aspirated some of the water, and then died of a cerebral hemmorrhage in bed that night.  Odds are overwhelmingly against the product's having caused that death, but that may have been just enough at that point to convince Colgate to discontinue Soaky.

Soaky was introduced at a time when the competition for supermarket-style "family" bubble baths was boxed powders -- Bub (the originator of that product positioning), Matey (an originally American brand which survives in the UK and Australia), and the continuing Mr. Bubble -- so Soaky stood out as a liquid, except for the not-as-advertised Purex, who also had liquids in "figural" bottles.  None of these were new product ideas, just that foam baths had previously been positioned for sale at Christmas in drug stores, or as fragrance items from the Avon lady, etc. -- luxury items as occasional gifts.  The idea that they'd be for routine use in low-fragrance or unscented form for children was the new idea that was promoted circa 1960, and had caught on so widely by about 1970 that they practically stopped advertising such products.  The advertising in the intervening decade had featured boys as models predominantly, to balance out the view of bubble baths from movies or as fragrance items as being primarily for females.

However, since about 1940 some of the new detergent powders like Swerl (and later, light duty liquids) had been advertised for routine use as bubble bath.  It was Charlie Eaton (whose son had been using up his mother's expensive bubble bath) who in 1958 had the idea of in effect relabeling high suds detergent powder as "Bub" for such use, to remove the stigma of bathing in the same stuff you were doing the laundry or dishes with.  And yet that hadn't stopped people from previously discovering the use of mild soap powders and flakes for foaming their bath water.

In the last 10 years or so, we acquired a whole bunch of them-from the more common ones to a few rare ones. We sold them all on eBay and made some $$$ on them. One we sold for over $100. Not only was it rare, it still had a little the bubble bath in it.


Cat

I love bubble baths...... I still take them if I have some stuff to put in :) (But usually I just have a plain bath)

I love bubble baths...... I still take them if I have some stuff to put in :) (But usually I just have a plain bath)



Wouldn't a shower be better than laying in your own filth?

Yea maybe but then I dont get warm :)

I guess I like the warm water....... (But I do shower off with cold when in done usually Howard)

Yea maybe but then I dont get warm :)

I guess I like the warm water....... (But I do shower off with cold when in done usually Howard)


I don't remember the last time I took a bath.

I take a bath every night and I shower in the morning.


Cat

I take a bath every night and I shower in the morning.


Cat


I'd rather shower because I can be able to stick my head under the water instead of dunking it while washing my hair.

I take a bath every night and I shower in the morning.


Cat
At a younger age, it was always a bath for me, showers had not caught in yet.

At a younger age, it was always a bath for me, showers had not caught in yet.


I enjoyed baths when I was a kid.

I enjoyed baths when I was a kid.
Baths are more relaxing!

Baths are more relaxing!


taking showers are much better.

Baths are more relaxing!
Especially at the age I now am.

Especially at the age I now am.


taking showers wake you up.

taking showers wake you up.
It can be done.

It can be done.



Baths don't really do it for me.

Baths don't really do it for me.
It is the same in The Philippines, which is dominated by the USA in it's culture.

It is the same in The Philippines, which is dominated by the USA in it's culture.


I prefer taking showers so I can get in and get out.

I prefer taking showers so I can get in and get out.
Especially in a rush?

I prefer taking showers so I can get in and get out.


I spend too long in the gym showers. The shower pressure is like a real life waterfall. I love it, especially after a sweaty workout. I'm paying so I better get my money's worth :P (I also like to think I'm not being as environmentally wasteful since the building is solar-powered, but I'm pretty sure I'm lying to myself when it comes to that).

Especially in a rush?



soap up your body, wash your hair and rinse.

soap up your body, wash your hair and rinse.



I take longer showers than I do baths because I have A LOT of hair to wash, then condition, etc.



Cat

I take longer showers than I do baths because I have A LOT of hair to wash, then condition, etc.



Cat
...to get your in purr-fect condition?  ;D

I take longer showers than I do baths because I have A LOT of hair to wash, then condition, etc.



Cat


I take shorter showers cause I hardly have any hair but styling the hair later on takes a  little longer than usual, mousse and spray afterwards.