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Thread Number: 72112
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 8/20/17: Salvo Detergent Tablets |
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Post# 953661 8/20/2017 at 05:52 (2,440 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Before there were pods/pacs there was Salvo! My mom bought them once when they were on sale, but didn't care for them. As with today's pods, she missed being able to fine-tune dosages. The ad is obviously aimed at the younger, liberated, more worldly 1960s woman. No drudgery of hauling around powdered detergent, bleach and other wash additives for her. Just drop in a couple of Salvo tablets and you're off to meet your hunky tennis instructor for a 'lesson.'
Notice the instructions for Salvo say to use hot (140 degrees) water for any load that can stand it. No doubt that helped ensure the tablets dissolved properly. Perhaps an AW member with vintage Consumer Reports magazines could let us know how they were rated for cleaning power in comparison to other detergents of the day. Vim was the other brand of tablets from that period. They were smaller, so four tablets were required for each load. That also allowed one more options for dosing compared to Salvo. All images from Google. This post was last edited 08/20/2017 at 08:10 | ||
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| Post# 953666 , Reply# 2 8/20/2017 at 09:06 (2,439 days old) by lesto (Atlanta) | ||
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Looks like a Maytag Highlander in the photo. My mom only bought Salvo once or twice. I loved how they would make such a loud clang when you dropped them into a solid porcelain tub machine. Mom was a dye-hard Tide user. | ||
| Post# 953667 , Reply# 3 8/20/2017 at 09:31 (2,439 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.) | ||
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Vim For the UK, Lever's 'Vim' was scouring powder!
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Post# 953668 , Reply# 4 8/20/2017 at 09:46 (2,439 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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My Aunt used Salvo in her Westy Slant Front as soon as the hit the market. I remember this vividly because I wanted my Mom to buy them too. But Mom wasn't interested, she liked her Tide or Oxydol. I recall that tyou could hear the Salvo tablets bang around the tub for the first minor so until enough water had entered the tub to dissolve them.
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| Post# 953694 , Reply# 8 8/20/2017 at 12:42 (2,439 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
ah, Salvo!
When I was a kid my Mom used Dash until we got a free sample of Salvo in the mail and she was immediately hooked. She never bought another brand of detergent until they stopped making Salvo. She said she loved the nice clean scent, not over-powering or too sweet.
My grandmother used Tide in her Frig Unimatic, but my mom hated the scent of Tide and the amount of suds it made. "You don't need suds to get clothes clean!!" She was ahead of her time. LOL Mom had a Westy slant-front Laundromat and she would drop one tablet in the tub, add laundry and away we go. No mess, no spills, no other additives. Keep it simple. I remember seeing a movie once, can't remember the name, and a baseball-loving boy was helping with the chores and was in the basement pitching a Salvo tablet across the room into a Westy Laundromat. | ||
| Post# 953700 , Reply# 9 8/20/2017 at 13:14 (2,439 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Post# 953714 , Reply# 10 8/20/2017 at 16:07 (2,439 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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As one recalls
Those Salvo tablets were also known as "hockey pucks". This because of their ability to emerge after a wash cycle totally intact. That and during the process you got to hear the things banging against drum.
It was enough to give tablet detergents a bad name, and soon Salvo, Vim and any others went the way of Dodo. That was until the 1990's when some bright blubs brought them back (Tide, Purex, Wisk, Ariel, etc...), only to see the things withdrawn again from market rather quickly. Have a NOS box of VIM tablets in my stash. Am on the fence about cracking it open and using, or just keeping for show. | ||
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Post# 953730 , Reply# 11 8/20/2017 at 17:50 (2,439 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 953731 , Reply# 12 8/20/2017 at 18:08 (2,439 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 953732 , Reply# 13 8/20/2017 at 18:11 (2,439 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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| Post# 953744 , Reply# 14 8/20/2017 at 20:35 (2,439 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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I knew one family that used Tied. They had a Frigidaire and I remember the lady of the house saying that she liked it because it didn't suds up... she had tried Tide in that machine at some point and had a major suds lock that came out around the edges of the lid and ran on the floor. | ||
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Post# 953746 , Reply# 15 8/20/2017 at 20:53 (2,439 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 953750 , Reply# 16 8/20/2017 at 21:07 (2,439 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 953753 , Reply# 17 8/20/2017 at 22:08 (2,439 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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My Grandmother used Salvo
That, and Amway SA8. Echoing what others have said, I remember the Salvo tablets clanging around in the machine, in this case a 1962 Whirlpool. I remember them hitting the upper curves the Surgilator most.
I got my Mom to buy a box of Salvo once, as Greg said she went right back to her favorite, All powder, after they were gone. We had a water softener so we needed All's low sudsing feature. | ||
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Post# 953754 , Reply# 18 8/20/2017 at 22:36 (2,439 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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My Mom tried Salvo in our '61 Frigidaire Custom Deluxe and hated it because the soap tablets wouldn't dissolve. She was a tried and true White King D user...and apparently as of late I have learned that she also didn't like her Frigidaire. I remember her standing there with a big wooden spoon pushing the clothes into the water to help it along. She still does it in her 2010ish GE but doesn't like that when she opens the lid, the action stops. I've offered to fix that for her, but she insists she's okay with how it is. The woman will be turning 89 years old in November and still going strong doing hers and my Dad's laundry!
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Post# 953757 , Reply# 19 8/20/2017 at 23:28 (2,439 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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White King D is great stuff. I believe it had some soap added to keep the suds down, and it leaves clothes soft. I came across a cache of it a couple of years ago on Fleabay.
I've recently used both Salvo and Vim, also purchased from Ebay. In fact, I'm on my third box of Salvo since I found some cheap. Honestly, though, it's a pretty poor performer, although on the plus side it has very low (practically no) suds. It may be unfair to judge a 50 year old product, but that's what I've found. In one box, the tablets had almost disintegrated into powder, but in the others, hot water and vigorous agitation were needed to make the pucks fully dissolve. Again, it may be unfair to judge given their age. Vim has somewhat better cleaning power, and mine still have a slight, pleasant scent, which is unusual in a detergent this old. I also have a couple of boxes of Colgate's entries into the field, Quick-Solv and AD Tablets, but haven't ever tried them. | ||
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Post# 953777 , Reply# 20 8/21/2017 at 04:22 (2,439 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Going by 1970's television commercials it seems Salvo was positioned as the detergent for the "busy" woman; read a working girl.
"A dimes load of Salvo is best." And how! In contrast these earlier commercials for Salvo promoted all sorts of benefits. Here is Wally Cox (Marlon Brando's BFF apparently) touting Salvo as the "fortified" detergent. | ||
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