Best Toliet Soap “Record”, a poster circa 1970

As you know from the first arti­cle, the choice for per­fumes and other toi­letries really wasn’t there. How­ever, the sit­u­a­tion began to change from the mid1970s. The imports from the coun­tries of the so-called social­ist camp were enter­ing the Soviet mar­ket. Every woman still remem­bers an excel­lent Pol­ish per­fume “May Be” – they were extremely pop­u­lar! There were also imports of some middle-of-the-road make up from Poland, but they were still very sought after and out­ra­geously expensive!

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