Who remembers dyed toilet paper?

Here.

God, yes, to match the bathroom suite.

I remember green and yellow.

Sometime around the '80s, colored toilet paper began to disappear from the shelves. Toilet Paper World quotes someone called the Toilet Paper King on a few potential reasons for its decline. (The Toilet Paper King, apparently, is Kenn Fischburg, president of Toilet Paper World. It is unclear where the authority for this toilet paper monarchy derives from, or whether the title is self-assigned.) Apparently doctors began warning people that the dyes in colored toilet paper could be harmful to their skin. And there were environmental concerns about the dyes, too.

pink toilet paper is still a very big thing in France.

I was just thinking about this yesterday, while buying toilet paper. Not that I miss the colors, mind.

You can still buy it in England.

Tissues too. We had Rainbow Scotties and you'd get a different color each time.

They don't make it anymore? I guess I never noticed since I always get the cheapest. No patterns anymore, either?

I would buy that, r7.

I remember pink - to match my parent's bath and loo.

Haha I remember. It was still around in the 90s also. The store by us would sell regular, blue, yellow, green and pink. I always intentionally bought the pink or blue lmao.

My anal sphincter is color blind so it's all moot.

England.

For the kitchen.

The shit troll is getting clever.

I remember pink in my parent's bathroom in the '60s, but I don't think it was very popular in the '70s and beyond -- its decline kind of correlated with the interest in ecology and environmentalism, in my mind.

I loved colored toilet paper and used to buy it. Wish they'd bring it back!

Pink, hanging just right, and ready to roll.

We will never achieve such heights of elegamce again.

Here ya go!

Rich.

Red dye 2 scare killed colored toilet paper.

I want this.

There were colored paper towels as well

Pink and brown became a popular color combination.

Amy Sedaris' absurd apartment profiled in a Tasteful Friends thread recently featured bright pink paper towels for her kitchen. she said they come from UK and are a gift from David who lives in England now.

I miss the green Scott toilet paper and matching tissues.

So lovely.

So tasteful.

I remember the pink and blue ones Charmin and Quilted Northern used to make xD!

I also remember my elementary teachers being so particular about Kleenes . One insisted that the Klennex box must match the holiday xD

August and September were white

January was the only Blue month

Pink for Valentine's - Easter

Green from Spring until the end of the Semester

Gold for Autumn - Xmas

Sunshine on a roll.

I worked in a grocery store from the late 70s to the late 80s and I remember the colors well. I miss them!

I remember the dyed and scented toilet paper, mainly because a great uncle of mine contracted colon cancer back in the 60's and died. The doctors said it was highly likely it came from the dyed and scented tissue. People started dropping like flies at one point and that's the main reason it was removed from the shelves.

I remembered tp with designs. We had white with pink flowers in one of our bathrooms. Something like this

A little like this

My nana in the UK had something like this in her bathroom. As a kid I thought it was hilarious. I envied friends who had pink Andrex loo rolls though, that was much poshervthsn out scratchy no name white bog roll. As an adult I'm also cheap about it now though, single ply Scotts for us.

Oops, forgot the link, ^R36.

Oops,again, I meant R37 not R36.

What's toilet paper?

My grandmother used to have pink & blue toilet paper, which I thought at the time was very fancy - unlike my cheapo parents that would only buy the white kind!

It hasn't been the same since Sears discontinued their catalog.

Dye in TP can give women UTIs.

I remember colored paper towels.

But if it's the dye....don't they also have to dye the paper white? Dye is dye and ink is ink, so wouldn't white toilet paper and paper towels be just as harmful?

Oprah wipes her arse and vajayjay with freshly minted bank notes that her butler gets from the bank every morning. She wipes away laughing manically, throwing the soiled notes in the air for her Haitian maids to catch. Oprah then calls to be sat on her bidet and her footmen carry her and seat her over Gayle's mouth from whence she will be licked clean.

Well, I for one would never allow any of those dyes get near my chili hole.

It’s all fun and games until you get ass cancer!

I remember those R45. I think there were different ethnic kids for each color and type of TP.

I feel like colored tissues lasted a lot longer (maybe still around?) than the TP.

Taste the rainbow. Yum.

All I know is, dyed toilet paper makes my mooch itch!

That's why we stopped using it, r3. I remember mom watching a news show piece on how the dyes were unhealthy. For a while she was frustrated because all the TP was dyed, and having to settle for white with small dyed flowers on it. After a few years all you could get was white, though -- the dyed TP fad ended really quickly.

W&W for r50

Pink was the best.. Green and blue were never as soft.

In the early 80s one of my aunts got some kind of ass rash or worse, and her doctor told her to stop wiping with colored toilet paper. She healed and started to spread the word, and soon my mom and all my other aunts had switched to the less decorative white paper that was perfectly safe for wiping all family asses, large and small. I always thought it would make an inspiring made-for-TV movie, kind of like "Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal".

This thread just triggered a memory. In the early 70's my older sister's wedding party had decorated their cars with big pastel flowers made from colored Kleenex. There was actually a flower-making party and all the bridesmaids giggled and drank and made dozens upon dozens of the car pompoms.

Oh, God. I'm from trash, aren't I?

I condole you, r56.

*the "I condole you" troll

R44, white paper isn't dyed white, it's bleached.

The dyes interacted negatively with sewage systems, specific septic - causing backups. That’s what led to the disappearance. A few backyard boom booms and *splat*. Nobody wants their brand associated with an exploding poop factory in a suburban back yard.

Of course in France, dyed toilet paper turned into a haute-couture business. There were even boutiques specialized in toilet paper only.

It was tacky and I miss it.

Didn't they also use to make Dove soap in different colors to match the bathroom decor?

I order the Renova paper towels from Amazon. They are shipped from Canada. The shipping is very expensive, but I will make the sacrifice for the colors. I refuse now to use boring plain white paper towels.

Any tips on how to make absolutely sure the “exploding poop factory” happens? Asking for a friend.