My Morning Tingle

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So I go into the drugstore and see a display area for this:
http://www.originalsource.co.uk/main/images/mint/b_nav.jpg

I figure, what the hell - I'll give it a go. At first I wasn't so keen on the idea of a tingling sensation at that time of the morning - especially in certain areas - but I LIKE IT. Anyone else tried this stuff?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

used it for years! i don't notince the tingling as much as i used to. i think my skin has developed an immunity to it.

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i use it

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

'certain areas' is right

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, reminds me I tried the menthol version (green one) of the Gold Bond talc powder in 'certain areas'. That was WAAAAAY more tingle than I wanted, thank you.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

somehow forgot to type "of the time" at the start there. too much tingle for me this morning, mabye.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob, if you're familiar with King of Shaves, you'll know that tingle already. Ed stopped using the gel and I've noticed it's great for leg-shaving when it's REALLY FUCKING HOT. So if it's anything like as hot as last summer you'll probably lok forward to using the stuff, even if it makes you feel perverted'n'stuff.

(sent you a Vespamail yesterday, did you get?)

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that stuff. You can eat it too. But you'll be sick later.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer Petroleum Jelly for a light snack

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Love Mint Source it's rocking but I reckon they've changed the formula as I'm sure I don't feel the tingle as much as when I used it a few years ago (rediscovered it after a prolonged absence).

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, there used to be MORE tingle? now i feel gipped.

suzy - i don't check my yahoo every day, but i will now. i've never heard of this "King of Shaves" of which you speak. although when it comes to shaving products, you'll be hard pressed to sway me from what i've used ever since i was 18.
it made me feel all fancy and posh 'cos i had to import it from the UK to canada...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

King Of Shaves totally rules. I also commend Sainsburys' new series of shower gels, under a quid each - the lilac and cottonseed is *deeeeelicious*, while sadalwood and ginger is, y'know, clarsssy and shit.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Trumpers! You are a Morrissey consumer-copyist, yes?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, just did some homework on this King of Shaves business. Sounds intersting. Although I recently tried another Trumper's shaving soap: "Extract of West Indian Limes", which is niiiiiice. I use the refills in the wooden bowl - my default is the Rose. I don't go in for all that almond/coconut/sandalwood shit...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post - I honestly never knew about the Moz/Trumper connection until I saw that Channel 4 show last year, and I had a suspicion that the Mayfair shop he was getting groomed in was Trumpers... My dad used Trumpers most of his life, and got me the full kit as my 18th birthday present. I still use the same wooden bowl and brush - those little badgers sure do make for a nice, long-lasting brush!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I use the KoS menthol tingle stuff and get no tingle whatsoever :o(

The fact that I have to slather bboth moisturiser and oil on first may cause this though (I am delicate you see, yes, like a flower)

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have any over here, but I love it.

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My pal Mark who used to do the Smiths fanzine used to come to London JUST togo to Trumper's in tribute and this was wayback, 1990 onwards at least.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I am using Mint Source tingle. It sets my bollocks on fire!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 May 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Going to Trumpers purely because of the Moz connection is a level of Smiths mentalism that I don't understand. I was just a regular run-o-the-mill cross-Atlantic posh-wannabe anglophile Trumpers customer!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob, this guy used to date the girl from the Everyday Is Like Sunday video.

I went on the Smiths Mentalism coach tour one summer in Manchester and managed to convince the Manchester Evening News journalist shadowing us that I was a ditzy New York heiress who'd come to Manchester to see if it was just like it was in the kitchen-sink movies, and he printed my story on the front page, verbatim. Considering the journalist in question is now a very famous maker of programmes about conspiracy theorists and the like, I totally showed him up as Mr. Gullible that day.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, no way would you convince as an heiress.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's two 4 one in Boots at the moment!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Even better ..... register with their website and they'll send you three bottles from a choice of eight absolutely FREE!!

http://www.originalsource.co.uk/main/index.asp

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

They are only dinky bottles mind.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get any bottles when I registered, I got a sachet....and I had to fill in a questionaire to get anymore so I didn't bother for I is layyyyzee.

― smee (smee), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dinky they may be, but I like people sending me free stuff.

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Free stuff like MILLIONS OF SPAM EMAILS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

(Hi CJ, how're things?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You could always register with a dummy e-mail address.

― robster (robster), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What, like Hotmail?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You have to fill out questionaires before they give you owt, so a dummy email addy aint no use - and they spam you for eternity!

― smee (smee), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I register using hotmail addresses just for such purposes (getting freebies, entering competitions etc), so my normal mailbox doesn't get clogged up with spam. In fact, I hardly get any spam at all, really.

I won an Eye-Cam mini digital camera last week, hurrah!

(Hi Mark! Things are grand, thanks)

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I just registered with my Hotmail - it already gets tons of spam anyway, and I hardly use it so I don't really care. All I need is to get the password or whatever. And they let you opt-out of the spammy stuff! (and they DON'T just add you to spam lists regardless, since they are too afraid of getting sued)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Free King of Shaves samples here :

http://www.shave.com/

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got lovely lemony original source liquid soap which i got in the boots two for one at the weekend.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to really like the "tingle" of the Dr. Bronner's liquid mint soap.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But what happened that you no longer like the tingle?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhhh... the big bottle i had ran out and i never replaced it.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the tingle in commercial toiletry products is the mere addition of either sodium lauryl sulfate (sometimes also ammonium lauryl sulfate)... used in everything from toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo. it offers no medical benefit to the product it serves, only a cosmetic tingling of epidermal nerves.

actually i think there's a straight dope on this

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The tapered hook on the bottle is vaguely horrifying.

You don't have to use shaving cream to get a close shave, nor soap neither. Einstein proved it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the tingle from mint products is distinctly different from what you are discussing, gygax. Especially on 'certain areas.'

also the tingle from cinnamon oil type stuff.

like the top left product here.

I know because I brush my teeth in the shower.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What a girl.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

tombot, check the ingredients dude!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No see gygax I can read, however, I can also feel things with my genitals. See, I have gotten soap on my genitals. I like to put soap on my genitals every day. That feels perfectly normal to me and is not in the least bit shocking or unpleasant ever. But then sometimes while I'm brudhing my teeth in the shower, with, say, cinnamon flavored toothpaste, or like a peppermint flavored toothpaste, a bit of foam from my mouth will succumb to gravity and wind up on my genitals, because I don't wear any clothes in the shower. And it feels quite a bit different from soap. In fact it's sometimes quite unpleasant. To be quite honest the very idea of willingly putting minty stuff on one's genitals seems completely depraved and insane to me. But what do I know, I brush my teeth in the shower.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

well it's ingredient #7 of your preferred brand (note: no cinnamon oil!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also in my shampoo and my soap, you imbecile, which produce no such 'tingle.' What the hell do you think "FLAVOR" means?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't want me to tell you what that is TOMBOT.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

FLAVOR is your SECRET WEAPON

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I will be tasting things with my genitals from now on. (I predict that I will no longer like ice cream.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Tasting habanero peppers will be a dream for you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Pop Rocks cause one to ponder.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this an appropriate time to mention that I initally misread the title of this thread as "My Morning Tinkle"?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, peaches.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned appears to speak from experience, re: peppers.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"At first I wasn't so keen on the idea of a tinkling sensation at that time of the morning - especially in certain areas - but I LIKE IT."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"I wanna dip my balls in it" to thread.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Once I was swimming in the ocean and a jellyfish got a few tentacles up the leg of my swim trunks. I think that may have been a time when some kind of aloe minty shower gel or some such might have actually come in handy.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 14 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned appears to speak from experience, re: peppers.

It's more on a conceptual level, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think you were ready for that jelly.

― HAHAHAHAHA oh hell (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 May 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer is wrong about the tooth brushing in the shower thing. I mean I refuse to do it personally but you haven't LIVED until your significant other spits a giant wad of toothpaste foam all over you.

― Allyzay, Saturday, 15 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

The rest of the story is that shortly after this thread, I went to London, bought a bottle just to see what everybody was on about, and now get Original Source bath products shipped to me across the Atlantic.
It is MUCH more tingly in stateside soft water than it ever was in the Russell Hotel shower.

I like the spearmint + lavender one, too.
Lime was sort of a bust.

Also, Ally recently got a bottle of this:
http://www.cleanandclear.com/images/products/new/mburst_fscrub/product.gif

which is kind of like washing your face with mentholated orange pop rocks, it's great.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So I tried the freebie offer. I got one little sample bottle of the lemon one, and that was it. I went online to give them feedback so I could get more, but the site wouldn't work (even with my registration). Bastards. The lemon was kinda lame. I still use the mint. I still like the tingle.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this an appropriate time to mention that I initally misread the title of this thread as "My Morning Tinkle"?

Was Frank Zappa's first draft "Why Does it Tingle When I Tinkle?"

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i am very disappointed with the decided lack of tingle in original mint source these days. you have to leave it on your body for a good twenty secs before you feel the slightest sensation whereas before it would rip your skin off with it's menthol tang within seconds.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OK I still hate this shit. The smell is kind of godawful, though yeah, the lemony lime one is the absolute worst, it burnt my eyes and made it difficult for me to breathe and I ended up screaming at Tom to get away from me. The other ones don't cause me physical pain so I put up with it, also the fact that the scent doesn't actually last for more than 4 minutes after rinsing. If it actually lasted, the smell I mean, I'd be secretly dumping the bottle down the drain in order to prevent "Toothpaste Boyfriend".

The face stuff Tom put a picture of up there, OTOH, is totally fine.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Now. More than ever. We need the tingle.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

i miss the tingle. i can't find this stuff in toronto. i tried some new-fangled shampoo that supposedly has the tingle, but i am gravely disappointed with its low degree of tingleness.

plz 2 recommend alternate envigorating bodywash products

― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Does the Body Shop still do Ice Blue Shampoo? That certainly had a tingle to it and I think you have BS there, right?

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

hate to recommend lynx/axe products but they do a shower gel with two different liquids in it (clear/kinda purple) that does indeed give a bit of a tingle.

― darraghmac, Thursday, 18 October 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

lysol douche?

― emsk, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

the famous lysol douche would give a little more tingle than i am looking for.

i am intrigued by your body shop suggestion, and will investigate. i'm not so jazzed by axe/lynx products.

― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

I now use that kiehl's bar soap what has big chunks of scrubby vegetation embedded in it

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

wait - i used to use that ice blue stuff! and they discontinued it. boo-urns.

― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

my roommate has all the kiehl products - i think he must use that soap because there's an expensive-looking bar soap in the shower that sounds similar. i would have all these kiehl products but i am afraid of the dent in the old wallet, eh?

― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

problem solved

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

good idea about adding menthol/eucalyptus oil! food colouring pointless.

― Rob Bolton, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Tea tree would be good too, I reckon.

― Madchen, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

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