Recent content by liamy1

Kirkland AustIin, *most*, as in nearly all Kirkland stuff is exceptional - in many cases beating the national brands IMO. BUT completely agree, they've missed a trick with the washing powder, it's awful stuff - industrial chemical smelling, sudsy as anything and leaves fabrics like sandpaper...

It will Almost definitely be a combination of two things The push on being environmentally friendly/conscious - cold water washes are a way of achieving that And the over caution employed by/mitigation of liability from textile manufacturers, should you not treat the laundry how they state...

P&G Do love their scents (but I actually find Persil stronger). But apparently market research has told them time and time again, that a strong scent is important, so they seem to load it up. Interestingly Bold scent seems to have been very much dumbed down (suspect this is since they have...

Cellulase Seems to come and go all the time from detergents over here. Can't remember exactly when, but there was a shift from manufacturers hiding that they made a range of brands under their umbrella - so when Bold moved to the "with Lenor" to advertise the 2in1 element (so Bold and Lenor...

Ha I've bought that Kirkland powder once only. It seemed to wash ok, but found it very sudsy (I would stake a bet it's not meant for "HE" - a large proportion of the US will still be on top loaders). It's a very industrial smell (not a at all what the US would accept for a laundry detergent -...

Persil Washing up liquid is back on the U.K. market, has been for a couple of years - see it more and more but of course it's not made by Unilever and from what I can remember (it was gone a long time) doesn't seem as high quality as the original - it retails for about 50p for 500ml. Think I...

Yep good old British rag - Bio/biological or enzymes is a dirty word in Britain and if you have kids you're practically negligent if you don't use non bio. Most know here that Persil is Britain's best selling detergent, but what many may not know is that nearly (in fact it may be just over -...

Yep charge a nice sum too, they sell them and they know that's the max amount of washes a consumer will get, so depending on pack size they know how often repeat purchases will be made. There was an argument though (in the US) that since introduction of Pods, sales of detergent had actually...

Some find it odd to have hot water even supplied to their ma Agreed. Wouldn't give up the option for a hot water wash for anything.

Very suspicious performance from Ariel. Perhaps their powders have been dumbed down to make the pods/liquids/gels look to be better in comparison? Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, they seem hell bent on getting people converted to liquids, if not better pods. We've ha the liquid...

March was very weird Yeah very weird in March. As I am in the UK my experience was very similar to a lot of what IEJ said. Of course hand washes and hand sanitisers, and yes toilet roll was a very big one and as he says that pasta was almost impossible to get. And exactly the same with...

Lakewebsterkid Rolls is in the U.K. Powders are still the most popular selling format here (very likely to much dismay of the manufacturers) and are regularly tested by our CR organisation (known as Which?) They out perform liquids every single time. Besides the 2 very top tier liquids...

Wonder When it went in? Have bought Ariel Regular and Colour Pods this month, and Gel in the last 2. Of course the packs just state "enzymes" on the ingredient list. I know the manufacture dates, but nowhere I could check if this would fall under before/after inclusion.

It's quite regular It's something that's always happened, you can find adverts as far back the 80s that we're shared amongst countries with slight tweaks to the product name for the respective country.

Yes Have some, too from Savers (it would be, it's exclusive to them). Seems ok and very much the same as Dettols save the scent. Seems the difference is with this you can add alongside softener, whereas others I think is in place of (could be wrong). Although for anyone unawares, this is not...