Vintage European soap packages

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Mydlo Dla Dzieci Pantuniestal

Over at Accidental Mysteries, a delightful collection of Vintage European Soap Packaging. (Thanks, Randall de Rijk!)

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Pawel Loj

Most/all(?) are polish. I remember them. These were pretty ugly stinking things ;-)
- Wreckrob8
  
  I get that they are all apparently Polish and names like dla dzieci/for you. But what does nymfa mean and who and what is it for?
  - koko szanel
    
    In Greek mythology, a nymph (νύμφη) is a female nature-spirit.
    - Wreckrob8
      
      I do get that and I haven’t forgotten all my Greek. Still you could not call any product in English nympho or nympha, could you? Problems of the non-translatability of product names was what I was thinking of.
  - Pawel Loj
    
    Nymfa must be Czech, because in Polish it is Nimfa. It is a female nature spirit, like koko szanel said.
guanto

Bah, soap is for wimps.

And Europeans, apparently.
sean

I was staying in a cheapo motel one time and the wrapped soap they had in the bathroom was called “First Date”. Ah, that special first date…what an appropriate time for soap.
twodimensionalme

Looks so Japanese.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VMKILASD3YNFLC2MEC6PGWUY4U cs

What, no flippant “For those of you who *snicker* actually use soap *eye roll*, you might find this enjoyable…” opening line for this one?
Cefeida

That first soap posted here on BB features the characters from the first Polish children’s tv programme, from 1962. Two finger puppets have adorable conversations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAwOVBU0uKQ