article_snippet: Other fastidious details include WW2 toothpaste, oil from that era that would have been used in typewriters and a team of 80 volunteers even made lipstick from boiled beetroot, which was common practice at the time.
article_snippet: and I got a bit obsessed with 1940s toilet paper. '
article_snippet: We searched high and low and eventually some toilet paper came up on eBay.
article_snippet: We did eventually get two rolls of wartime loo roll that I was very happy with.'
article_snippet: It's very rare as, at the time, people would generally not have used it, people would have used scraps of paper or even newspaper in some households.'
article_snippet: The bathrooms are stocked with toothpaste and toothbrushes from the era.
article_snippet: One instance would be 1940s tea that came in a cardboard box in wrapped up packets with hand written notes.
article_snippet: They had been in somebody's attic for 70 years and was in a pristine condition. '
article_snippet: A lot of the items we received were from the kindness of strangers.'