My brother and I used to fill the sink with water and put the soap, after it had grown fur, into the sink overnight. By morning the soap was dissolved and we got the prize! After Mom found out we didn't get anymore---but I think we had at least two before she found out.
I had one of these that my sister bought for me. She worked at Recall drug store. My toy inside was a tiny plastic toothpaste tube that I used for my Barbie doll collection. It was mint green
Little shit that I was as a kid, I snuck a present out from under the tree and unwraed it and it was one of these,I rewraped it and on Christmas morning when I opened it for the second time it was all fuzzy...busted!!!!
I did the same in the 80’s with my swatch watch. I opened it and rewrapped it. I could have taken it out and worn it because my grandma never paid me any attention anyway she wouldn’t had noticed me wearing it.
There was a rhyme, and the soap was named after it. "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?" I think that was why even little kids instantly identified with it and had to have one. So gross, though, looking back on it. 😄
I looked this up, the same as the person below, to make sure it wasn't a dream. This was a "major award" for a Halloween mask contest in first grade. Terrific.
Yep... I had this one, along with all the other stuff from the 60's... my fave were those darn sea monkeys! Remember the seahorses you could order, and the chameleon lizard that they offered through ad's in the back of comic books. I had the x-ray glasses and all the other junk. I kept bazooka joe busy with comics you sent in for prizes (all the while probably rotting my teeth) and let's not forget onion gum and itching powder :)
@@lesliehall6079 I developed severe allergies to molds, penicillin, etc as an adult, but thankfully didn't react to the Fuzzy Wuzzy 'fur' as a young child. Scary, that the potential for it being dangerous really wasn't considered at the time.
I too, recieved one for Xmas of '67. I saw the commercial and just had to have one. I was so happy to find one under the tree. I can remember carefully reading the instructions, warning the buyer not to touch Fuzzy Wuzzy or else the fur wouldn't grow there. Sure enough, I touched it accidentally and Fuzzy's luxurious coat came in over his entire body except for one spot, the size of a child's fingerprint. Priceless memory for me.
I loved Fuzzy Wuzzy soap. I have a remarkably sharp memory, so I had no doubt this actually existed. But I'm glad this commercial corroborates what my brain has told me.
The only thing I can find is that the moisture in the air caused a "cosmetic ingredient" in the soap to crystallize on the surface of the soap. Once the soap was used, there was no more of the "cosmetic ingredient" left to crystalize... so, yeah, probably toxic sludge 🤣 Honestly, I would love to know, if anyone has any ideas
It couldn't have been too bad. I don't know anyone who suffered any ill effects from using it. On a positive note, the soap helped me to learn to wait....
A lab recently did a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
I hated those. Being a kid knowing there was a prize inside made it hard to wait three days before I could use it. My Mom stopped buying them because I never waited.
I was just reading a magazine that had an ad for soap wit a toy inside and I remembered my brother and I having fuzzy wuzzy soap and here it is! I remember it growing fuzz and we couldn't wait for the toy
No, that seems to be an urban legend circulating (it does make sense, white fuzzy stuff that grows on its own in the average household is, in all probability, mold). It's actually a chemical process that occurs when the soap is exposed to the ambient humidity in the air, the soap and its special aluminum hydroxide coating grow small filaments. If you remember those "grow your own crystals" things, it's more along those lines, though not quite the same.
A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
Yup, A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
Digging into the patent, it looks like the filaments are comprised of soap and aluminum hydroxide (which should be safe for the skin at low concentrations).
A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
@@michellelovesanimals2237 not mold, there is glycerine in the soap base that attracts moisture causing the soap to "sweat" which crystalizes on the surface.
I loved this when I was a kid, I'm glad it wasn't some kind of fever dream that I mis-remembered!
Me too! Fever dreams!!!
Did you know the hair is actually mold spores?
Wow brings back memories.....seemed like mine was a bunny?
I thought I dreamed it too. I loved it so much!
PolarMetroGames I’m not actually surprised at all, although I suspected it was some kind of chemical reaction instead...
My brother and I used to fill the sink with water and put the soap, after it had grown fur, into the sink overnight. By morning the soap was dissolved and we got the prize! After Mom found out we didn't get anymore---but I think we had at least two before she found out.
She should have got one more and washed your mouths out with it everyday until the prize came out. Bet ya wouldn't do it no more!
Don't be bitter because you didn't get to have Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap! Be happy. . .
I love you! 😆
@@chattisimo1239 Ha he's bitter because HE never had such a fine fuzzy soap toy!
I think after a few days we all melted the bar of soap for that wonderful Cracker Jack toy.
I had one of these that my sister bought for me. She worked at Recall drug store. My toy inside was a tiny plastic toothpaste tube that I used for my Barbie doll collection. It was mint green
Little shit that I was as a kid, I snuck a present out from under the tree and unwraed it and it was one of these,I rewraped it and on Christmas morning when I opened it for the second time it was all fuzzy...busted!!!!
I did the same in the 80’s with my swatch watch. I opened it and rewrapped it. I could have taken it out and worn it because my grandma never paid me any attention anyway she wouldn’t had noticed me wearing it.
Your childhood must of SUCKED for you to receive soap for Christmas. Or your parents were trying to tell you something.👀
@@unicornmadness6286 No, it was a 'must have', for every kid up to 10 or 12 years old. We were easily impressed in those days 😄
For years and years I have wondered how I knew Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, one of life's great mysteries is solved for me!!??
There was a rhyme, and the soap was named after it. "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?" I think that was why even little kids instantly identified with it and had to have one. So gross, though, looking back on it. 😄
@@nashotamojag535 Did I mention this during a ride?
I looked this up, the same as the person below, to make sure it wasn't a dream. This was a "major award" for a Halloween mask contest in first grade. Terrific.
Yep... I had this one, along with all the other stuff from the 60's... my fave were those darn sea monkeys! Remember the
seahorses you could order, and the chameleon lizard that they offered through ad's in the back of comic books. I had the
x-ray glasses and all the other junk. I kept bazooka joe busy with comics you sent in for prizes (all the while probably
rotting my teeth) and let's not forget onion gum and itching powder :)
USS Constitution
Wow I remember all of those! My brother ordered the x-ray glasses, there was a feather inside.
I loved the sea monkeys and those games with the water in them where you have to press the buttons to get the loops to go up.
How does it grow fuzz you wonder, well it's a form of crystallization. Efflorescence
It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
@@lesliehall6079 I developed severe allergies to molds, penicillin, etc as an adult, but thankfully didn't react to the Fuzzy Wuzzy 'fur' as a young child. Scary, that the potential for it being dangerous really wasn't considered at the time.
I remember this soap, we oved it.
I got the bear for Christmas when I was about 10. I absolutely loved it.
I was six or seven when I got mine. That would have been 76/77.
I too, recieved one for Xmas of '67. I saw the commercial and just had to have one. I was so happy to find one under the tree. I can remember carefully reading the instructions, warning the buyer not to touch Fuzzy Wuzzy or else the fur wouldn't grow there. Sure enough, I touched it accidentally and Fuzzy's luxurious coat came in over his entire body except for one spot, the size of a child's fingerprint. Priceless memory for me.
My grandma used to have these at her house for us kids in the 60's. Always a fun time, lol.
Don't know what prompted this memory to spring forward, but I knew I'd was real. Just wondered how others remembered it! Good times!!!
Dang, I couldn't even get the soap that floats
Had to dig way back into my dusty cavern of a mind to find this one:
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
It's Lupus.
No! He was a baldy waldy!
I used to love this soap!
I am looking up the best soap to use to bath poodle dogs and I got this! XD haha..oh my... this commercial sounds so cute for kids to enjoy tho! :D XD
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear! Fuzzy Wuzzy grows his own hair!
Fuzzy Wuzzy _DOES_ get fuzzy, does he?
had some in my early tears awesome
My mom bought me a bar of this soap when I was young. But it was such a faint memory that I doubted it was even real. Now I know.
I loved fuzzy wuzzy when I was a kid
I loved Fuzzy Wuzzy soap. I have a remarkably sharp memory, so I had no doubt this actually existed. But I'm glad this commercial corroborates what my brain has told me.
You have a remarkable sharp memory, okay where were you on July, 25th, 1983 at 1:36 pm?
I'm watching the movie "space preachers from outer space" ,and they just mentioned it ,so I thought I'd check it out !!!.
If my soap did this I would literally cry.
It’s creepy
@@ladydeanna3775 It does it with mold
I remember having these!
I had the bear.....I loved him
I wonder what kind of dangerous, radioactive chemicals caused that fuzz to grow that we happily washed our hands with. Eek!
The only thing I can find is that the moisture in the air caused a "cosmetic ingredient" in the soap to crystallize on the surface of the soap. Once the soap was used, there was no more of the "cosmetic ingredient" left to crystalize... so, yeah, probably toxic sludge 🤣
Honestly, I would love to know, if anyone has any ideas
I read about this. It was actually some kind of mold.
@@helenamirian908 nope, urban legend. It's a precipitate of the soap itself and a special aluminum hydroxide solution that's applied to the outside.
It couldn't have been too bad. I don't know anyone who suffered any ill effects from using it.
On a positive note, the soap helped me to learn to wait....
A lab recently did a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
I hated those. Being a kid knowing there was a prize inside made it hard to wait three days before I could use it. My Mom stopped buying them because I never waited.
I had one of those!
I was just reading a magazine that had an ad for soap wit a toy inside and I remembered my brother and I having fuzzy wuzzy soap and here it is! I remember it growing fuzz and we couldn't wait for the toy
So it grows mold you rub it on your face and there's a whistle in it
Had I known I would have kept one of mine in the box! The fur is actually mold
So is cheese. I guess it has some uses.
WHAT! eeeeew
I still have my Fuzzy Bear , sealed in his circus cage/box. 😀😀👍🏼♥️
No, that seems to be an urban legend circulating (it does make sense, white fuzzy stuff that grows on its own in the average household is, in all probability, mold). It's actually a chemical process that occurs when the soap is exposed to the ambient humidity in the air, the soap and its special aluminum hydroxide coating grow small filaments.
If you remember those "grow your own crystals" things, it's more along those lines, though not quite the same.
A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
Probably discontinued due to the chemicals used to get that effect. Great way to get kids to wash their hands though!!
It’s not chemicals to cause that , it’s mold
Yup, A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
fUZZY WUZZY WAS A BEAR, fUZZY Wuzzy had no hair.Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy was he?
It's Lupus.
No! He was a baldy waldy!
So weird. I was born in the 70’s but I don’t remember this.
Anyone have the Mandela effect with this?
How does it work? You wash your fluffy bear and his hair is washed off. Does his hair is a soap too? How does it grow up?
It's mold
Not mold. beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/packaged-past-tense-fuzzy-wuzzy
@@starbuckslatte8157 No it is definitely NOT mold! Read the product ingredient list!🙄
Carrie Macke how am I supposed to know I didn't get one >:(
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What was the fur, asbestos or mold haha?
@ChavvyBrenda It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
What were the ingredients that made it grow fur?
Some kind of mold
@@helenamirian908 I don't think it was mold because that would be dangerous on the skin and a liability issue.
@@TheGingersGarden not all molds are dangerous, though. Blue cheese, for example, or penicillin.
@@helenamirian908 Actually it's not mold though: beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/packaged-past-tense-fuzzy-wuzzy
Digging into the patent, it looks like the filaments are comprised of soap and aluminum hydroxide (which should be safe for the skin at low concentrations).
peek at a hymen
coffee tea or me trying
scott again lying
How did this work. This had to be asbestos or something
A lab recently conducted a test on the “hair”. It’s actually a mold - Cladosporium, which is a common household mold which can be associated with allergies and asthma. 😬😷
Was it mold?
A chemical reaction when exposed to air.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efflorescence
is that seriously mold !! I had this soap in 1975!! Gross🤕🤕
@Mudiwa’s Yy I'm 49
Michelle Loves animals I had one when I was about 5, back in 1963 or thereabouts
@@michellelovesanimals2237 not mold, there is glycerine in the soap base that attracts moisture causing the soap to "sweat" which crystalizes on the surface.
@@sephiroth70001 pheeew, what a relief 😂😂
@@sephiroth70001 most soaps have glycerine and they dont do it, it really was mold
Lord only knows if the 'fuzz' it grew was mold!
Thankfully it wasn't. Chemistry magic at work.
lol if you make bear muffins and leave them for several days in the open they will grow white fur but its mold
All that asbestos 😟
I’m not gonna use those IM GONNA BURN THEM
Mold soap