Thread Number: 82757  /  Tag: Detergents and Additives
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Post# 1069148   4/25/2020 at 08:00 (1,455 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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Must have been in a test market somewhere. Check out the pictures of the early '60s machines

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Post# 1069151 , Reply# 1   4/25/2020 at 08:34 (1,455 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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That's a great commercial, lots of vintage washing action shots! Looks to be from around 1963 or there abouts. I had found a bottle of liquid Hum years ago at an estate sale, it's the only time I've ever seen Hum before.






Post# 1069154 , Reply# 2   4/25/2020 at 08:43 (1,455 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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I'd say 1962 also given the Frigidaire, Norge, and Westinghouse washers.  


Post# 1069161 , Reply# 3   4/25/2020 at 09:33 (1,455 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Hum!

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I never heard of this one before

Post# 1069166 , Reply# 4   4/25/2020 at 09:48 (1,455 days old) by Marky_mark (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin)        

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You can buy something similar in the UK. It contains oxygen bleach and OBAs. This product is used in addition to regular detergent. 



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Post# 1069167 , Reply# 5   4/25/2020 at 09:50 (1,455 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.)        

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Oh yes, take those clothes off to wash them baby.

Post# 1069175 , Reply# 6   4/25/2020 at 10:32 (1,455 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Pacs/Pods have a carved themselves a solid share in today's detergent market. It's fun to see a company that tried the same thing nearly 50 years ago.

Of course, my mom wasn't one to try envelope-pushing products. She bought Salvo tablets once and made a mess trying to break them in half because she thought the dosage on the box was excessive. They never appeared in our laundry room again. Learned a few choice Italian swear words in the process, though, LOL.

Had a similar experience earlier this week with the Blackstone washer POD--it offered a water saving spin-spray rinse in lieu of a deep rinse in 1974.


Post# 1069178 , Reply# 7   4/25/2020 at 10:39 (1,455 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Anything

Would dissolve quickly in that Norge LOL

Post# 1069309 , Reply# 8   4/25/2020 at 21:36 (1,455 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        

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I've got an unopened box. Pretty minty.

Not sure what to DO with it, but I have it, lol.



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Post# 1069315 , Reply# 9   4/25/2020 at 22:15 (1,455 days old) by agiflow3 ()        

The agitator when they dropped it onto the load looked like a Surgilator.

Post# 1069367 , Reply# 10   4/26/2020 at 07:09 (1,454 days old) by angus (Fairfield, CT.)        

Probably a test market product that never went national. That's true of so many products. Living in the
"NY metropolitan area" we missed so much since we weren't representative of the rest of the country. For example, I never knew that Cold Power was also offered in liquid form. Never saw Cold Power at all until my mother received a sample box. I still don't know how someone was able to deliver sample boxes to blocks of multi family apartment houses in NY.

I am sure there are many products I don't know about, but a few I recall from when I was an adult and traveling for my job were Wave all fabric bleach (from Clorox, US Ariel powdered detergent, Clorox detergent, Oxydol detergent with "acti-bleach (which I still believe ultimately became Tide with Bleach) and Wisk powdered detergent (before the ultra powders were nationally introduced in the early 90's.

And I am sure there are many food products as well...


Post# 1069379 , Reply# 11   4/26/2020 at 08:21 (1,454 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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I've got a sample-size box of Stardust Chlorine Bleach from P&G, which was apparently test-marketed here in Detroit in the late 60s. Clorox Detergent was test-marketed in the late 80s in Chattanooga, TN (bought some there at Red Food for some reason).

Post# 1069474 , Reply# 12   4/26/2020 at 22:27 (1,454 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        

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Clorox detergent was sold here, too. I liked it, but in all honesty it probably didn't clean as well as Tide With Bleach.

Here's another attempt by Clorox to break into the detergent market, dated 1985. Coincidentally, Act was a packet detergent like Hum.


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