Not enough man-stuff in Pretty Iconic" Bro-stalgic Michael Hogan is here to redress the balance.
 
It?s unlikely to have escaped your attention but Sali has a new book out called Pretty Iconic (£26 from all good booksellers, the ideal gift etc, etc) in which she celebrates beauty products that changed the world. Yes, there?s some man-stuff in it – the likes of Old Spice, Noxzema, Brylcreem, Denim, Gillette Sensor razors and so on – but it?s mainly, you know, women?s things. Understandably, what with her being an actual woman. So I thought I?d do a miniature men?s addendum, covering a few things Sali didn?t have room for?
Lynx

 
?Are you wearing Lynx"? ?Well-smelt. Voodoo.? ?Java.? So goes Alan Partridge?s first meeting with his new best mate Dan Dan The Kitchen Man. Named, for no apparent reason, after a pointy-eared wild cat, the butchly black-packaged ?anti-perspirant bodyspray? launched in 1983 was actually aimed at a much younger demographic than middle-aged Alan and Dan – namely, teenage lads. It was basically Impulse for boys, coming in such 80s band-sounding fragrances as Musk, Spice, Amber, Oriental, Marine, Apollo, Gravity and Phoenix. It?s still going strong 33 years later, with an accompanying range of shower gels, shampoos and hair gloop, cannily marketed with megabantz ad campaigns.  
Styptic pencil

 
This mysterious white stick, found knocking about the back of the bathroom cabinet beside your dad’s crus...