Two bath soaps that are the old Lifebuoy in a new avatar!

I just got double lucky with my bathing soap. I was always a Lifebuoy man. You remember Lifebuoy from Hindustan Levers? With the red and yellow packaging? A chunky bar of carbolic that had the distinct antiseptic smell of the hospital. You felt tingling fresh, clean, and disinfected after a Lifebuoy bath. It had a lively jingle which played on All India Radio that I identified with and can still sing – “Lifebuoy hai jahan tandoorusti hai waha!”

Lifebuoy was a sporty, masculine soap. Just as Pears is feminine. My father used it and his father and grandfather before him. I carried on the tradition. Till Hindustan Lever did away with the trusted octagonal carbolic bar and introduced a curvy new Lifebuoy Total in an attractive box. It smelled of mint and lime and herbs and God knows what else. It was marketed as a family soap. Not a health soap. I stopped using Lifebuoy overnight. If I wanted a perfumed soap, there was Lux.

Then Karnataka Soaps & Detergents, maker of the popular Mysore Sandalwood Bath Soap, introduced a Carbolic bar that looked like, smelled like, and felt like the old Lifebuoy. I bought my first bar skeptically. It was paisa vasool! Now Anchor, a name I associate with electrical switches, cables, fans, and lights, has come out with a germ protection soap that’s Lifebuoy in another avatar. I use both – Carbolic and Anchor. They leave me feeling clean and scrubbed. And smelling like my honest and hardworking father after he had 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 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. In a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work, Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward.

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