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Thread Number: 9112
Soap Companies and Washer Companies |
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| Post# 169895 , Reply# 1 11/26/2006 at 18:52 (6,350 days old) by jeb (Mansfield Ohiio) | ||
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westinghouse/ all As I understand it the Westinghouse company developed All laundry detergent for there front loaders-(regular detergents did not work well because of the suding) All originally was a "no" sudsing detergent but housewifes complaint that they didn't like not haveing any suds so it went to a "low" sudsing formula | ||
Post# 169979 , Reply# 3 11/27/2006 at 07:35 (6,349 days old) by jamiel  (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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These are pretty clearly promotional tie-ins which are governed more by a contract between the soap company and the washer co. P&G and Tide pretty much locked up the automatic washer space except for frontloaders, which went with All (which was part of Monsanto until about 1957, when they sold it off to Lever Brothers---too expensive to sell when that was your only product...AstroTurf was another 15 years away!). Monsanto had developed the low-foaming surfactants which worked well in the f/l, and it allowed Lever to dominate a small subset of the detergent market (i.e. controlled suds)...so Lever dominated controlled suds and liquid (Wisk) and was an also-ran in heavy duty powders (Rinso), P&G dominated heavy duty powders (Tide/Cheer), and Colgate-Palmolive only had Fab until mid-60s when they did Cold Power and cornered that side of the market. | ||
| Post# 169999 , Reply# 4 11/27/2006 at 10:16 (6,349 days old) by northwesty (Renton, WA) | ||
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Thanks Jamie and everyone else for the information If that is the same Monsanto as that synthetic bovine growth hormone and nutra-sweet, they have been busy. Didn't know they did soap too. | ||
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