What Is Over Fifty, German And Smells Good?

Not a collector of detergents per se as one uses quite allot of my vintage "finds".

First the fact most if not some contain phoshpates means one can skip adding extra from my stash, which saves money as less calls to "Chemistry Store.com".

Next rather like the scents of old laundry products, before everything smelled like a cheap French knocking shop. Worse the aroma stays on one's washing weeks afterwards. Yesterday's laundry proudcts simply smelled like what one remembers for fresh washing.

Also tend to give some products away if one finds they do not suit. Mother Dearest and other members of my family have grown quite used to me arriving at events with laundry products in the trunk of the car as "give aways".

Of the Persil aquisitions those are going to be here probably for the duration. Persil 59 was the second or third incarnation of that product from Henkel and while it is detergent rather than soap based the surfactants are anionic (high sudsing) and Henkel added "foam intensifiers" as well. One can only assume this was Europe's answer to "Tide" and similar products that were launched in the United States and displaced soaps as queen of washday. However given methods of washing at that time even in Europe top loaders, twin tubs, and other machines not much bothered by excess froth must have been the norm. Cannot imagine what this stuff will do in the Miele, but one is always game to try. Happily also have a large cache of defoaming agents if things get out of hand.

Should the Persil 59 prove too much for the Miele there is always my Hoover twinnie and the Whirlpool compact toploader.


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Post# 581629 3/10/2012 at 21:38 (4,428 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes Here we go

Post# 581630 , Reply# 1 3/10/2012 at 21:39 (4,428 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes *Why Does USPS Always Wake One Up On Saturday Morning For The* Well there are worse things than being awoken by a >50 German

Post# 581633 , Reply# 2 3/10/2012 at 21:59 (4,428 days old) by logixx (Germany)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *What Is Over Fifty, German And Smells Good?* Me in 30 years. :-p

Post# 581635 , Reply# 3 3/10/2012 at 22:18 (4,428 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes *Stop Messing About* Not likely. Well not yet anyway.

Post# 581637 , Reply# 4 3/10/2012 at 22:40 (4,428 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes *Well Since No One Seems To Care* Have at it.

Post# 581638 , Reply# 5 3/10/2012 at 22:58 (4,428 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)
Checkrate/Likes *I was gonna say my ex...* oh well.

Post# 581640 , Reply# 6 3/10/2012 at 23:13 (4,428 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)
Checkrate/Likes Good grief! Even more Persil! I wonder when this will stop. Do you have any space left to move around in your apartment?

Post# 581643 , Reply# 7 3/10/2012 at 23:26 (4,428 days old) by qualin (Canada)
Checkrate/Likes Well, now I know that if I ever happen to be in New York and I REALLY need a box of Persil, I know who to go to now. :)

Post# 581657 , Reply# 8 3/11/2012 at 06:05 (4,427 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)
Checkrate/Likes Laundress! You really are a master collector of detergents, aren't you?

Post# 581669 , Reply# 9 3/11/2012 at 07:05 (4,427 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Good Lord* How wonderful is that ? I'm over Fifty, German, and I guess I'll just have to shower ! LOL :0

Post# 581676 , Reply# 10 3/11/2012 at 08:32 (4,427 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)
Checkrate/Likes I find it most amazing that you say there is still a nice scent to it. Most of today`s bar soaps will loose their scent compleatly within a few years. Wonder what might have been used to fix the scent for over half a century, probably tons of phalates. However, congratulations on your find ! May I ask for more pictures of the instructions for use and so on ?

Post# 581756 , Reply# 11 3/11/2012 at 17:28 (4,427 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes @foraloysius: Am not in immient danger of being over taken or in need of an intervention. We manage space wise nicely. But thank you for asking. @qualin: As the famous quote goes "out of my cold dead hands". LOL @mrboilwash: Cannot say why scent remains in both package, wash water and on fabrics after laundering. Could be phthalates, I don't know. Scent isn't like what one finds today that remains ages after an item was washed, but rather what one remembers from childhood. Scent is strongest right after and slowly fades as items are stored. However it tis in all incarnations of my vintage laundry detergents a rather fresh "just washed" scent regardless of what the original fragrance. Will see what I can do about more snaps, but don't want to start people talking.

Post# 581835 , Reply# 13 3/11/2012 at 23:07 (4,427 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Checkrate/Likes Wonderful find! Just one box would have been a treat, but a CASE! Thud.

Post# 581784 , Reply# 12 3/11/2012 at 20:19 (4,427 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)
Checkrate/Likes *@Whirlcool* Not a collector of detergents per se as one uses quite allot of my vintage "finds". First the fact most if not some contain phoshpates means one can skip adding extra from my stash, which saves money as less calls to "Chemistry Store.com". Next rather like the scents of old laundry products, before everything smelled like a cheap French knocking shop. Worse the aroma stays on one's washing weeks afterwards. Yesterday's laundry proudcts simply smelled like what one remembers for fresh washing. Also tend to give some products away if one finds they do not suit. Mother Dearest and other members of my family have grown quite used to me arriving at events with laundry products in the trunk of the car as "give aways". Of the Persil aquisitions those are going to be here probably for the duration. Persil 59 was the second or third incarnation of that product from Henkel and while it is detergent rather than soap based the surfactants are anionic (high sudsing) and Henkel added "foam intensifiers" as well. One can only assume this was Europe's answer to "Tide" and similar products that were launched in the United States and displaced soaps as queen of washday. However given methods of washing at that time even in Europe top loaders, twin tubs, and other machines not much bothered by excess froth must have been the norm. Cannot imagine what this stuff will do in the Miele, but one is always game to try. Happily also have a large cache of defoaming agents if things get out of hand. Should the Persil 59 prove too much for the Miele there is always my Hoover twinnie and the Whirlpool compact toploader.

Post# 581909 , Reply# 14 3/12/2012 at 10:46 (4,426 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)
Checkrate/Likes *WOW!* Miss Launderess, I would like to know just HOW you are able to FIND these things! I suspect you are like the proverbial Blood Hound that's able to "sniff" this stuff out. Truly amazing! Bravo! Congrats! Kevin

Post# 581935 , Reply# 15 3/12/2012 at 13:21 (4,426 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa)
Checkrate/Likes Ahhhhh did you not get a stash of that Persil a couple of weeks back... If soo would you mind selling a Box.. Nice ! Your stash should last decades Laundress. Darren k

Post# 582039 , Reply# 16 3/12/2012 at 21:58 (4,426 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)
Checkrate/Likes *Wow Launderess* what a haul! I can send you some Rosalie's , no matter how much that Persil foams up in your Miele, a small scoop of Rosalie's will tame it right down and continue the washing process! "out of my cold dead hands" LOL!!!