I received my half-yearly supply of Carbolic bath soap yesterday. Six brilliant red wrapper bars. Each one lasts me a month. One of them is already in use. Carbolic is what I use since it looks, smells, and feels like good old Lifebuoy. Remember the basic red and yellow packaging of Lifebuoy from Hindustan Levers? It was accessible until the 1990s. A large bar of carbolic with the antiseptic odour of all hospitals. After a bath, you felt tingly fresh, clean, and disinfected. It had a catchy radio commercial, “Lifebuoy hai jahan tandoorusti hai waha!” Lifebuoy was a sports-themed soap for men. Just like Pears, which is meant to be used by women. My father, like his father and grandpa before him, utilized it. I continued the custom. Till Hindustan Lever decided to make Lifebuoy seem more upscale than the world’s best health soap. It did away with the traditional octagonal carbolic bar and introduced a curving new Lifebuoy Complete in a beautiful packaging that claimed 100% improved germ protection and smelled of mint and lime and herbs and God knows what else.
I abruptly stopped using Lifebuoy.
Lux was always available if I needed scented soap. And I eventually forgot about Lifebuoy, with its carbolic odour and washing properties.
Then I found Karnataka Soaps & Detergents, which manufactures the famed Mysore Sandalwood bath soap, had a Carbolic bar for just Rs.30 that was Lifebuoy in a new guise. It’s paisa vasool, and it leaves me feeling clean and cleansed, as well as nostalgically smelling like my industrious father after a Lifebuoy bath.
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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