2006 Tide With Bleach vs. 1957 Wisk for Family Wash

[Unimatic1140]

Three minutes into the wash cycle shows a huge difference in the amount of suds built up between these two detergents. Both loads done this morning are very similiar (mixed colors). Last year Tide would have kept up with Wisk, but they must have changed the forumla recently, I've notice it hardly suds at all anymore

 

[Unimatic1140]

But during the Rinse cycle both detergents seem to rinse well. With the older version of Tide from 2005 there would have been suds built up in the rinse as well.

 

[hoover1060]

{{{{SIGH}}}}

Those are beautiful machines Robert!!!

 

[irishwashguy]

i have a thought

Maybe everything that they are making now is really HE,but when you by HE, it is just more expensive( he's can be sometimes)I love your machines btw.Is this your daily driver?

 

[exploder321]

Wonderful machines.... I put a whole cup of tide in our Front loader and it made very few suds.. Put wisk he in there, suds every place..

 

[petek]

Well I've often wondered how some of you manage to get all those suds because I never seem to get any. Last week mom was saying she must have been absent minded and put two loads of her Sunlight powder in because she had suds coming out the top. I had used it once while I was there and didn't get any suds but them I'm sometimes too frugal with the amount of detergent

 

[frigilux]

Great experiment, Robert! I love, love, LOVE that '58. I know you suds-cake guys are lamenting the de-sudsing of Tide, but since I use it in my FL'er, I'm thankful for it.

My TL'er produces very little suds, even with softened water and the high-sudsing Mexican detergents. When I want a suds-cake, I have to pull out the Woolite and use a low water level. That works every time.

 

[sudsman]

Robert

Put a little Calgon in it there It will make it suds real good!

 

[oxydolfan1]

If you want suds (in my soft water anyway), try the Kirkland HE LIQUID and just top off the cap!

OH, you'll get SUDS! lol...

Also, the Surf classic powder they sell at Target...

You just KNOW, all over America, Tide users are saying, "Damn, they diluted the Tide powder again....less suds, LESS power!"

Those machines are MINT...thanks for the experiment!

 

[jasonl]

That's the new Clean Breeze crap. I'd try with some "Original Scent" to see if there's any difference.

 

[sudsdudeshane]

1957 Wisk Liquid

wow Robert..I am amazed the Wisk liquid was still sudsing up after nearly 4 decades! what did that sell for originally? any idea?

 

[Unimatic1140]

Calgon will help a little, but we have pretty soft water to begin with. By the end of the wash cycle with the Wisk the suds were covering up and hiding the agitator.

Shane I don't think there was an original price on the can, I have a few others I will check and see later.

 

[appnut]

Robert, that's describing the usual perfict Frigidaire sudscake.

 

[sudsdudeshane]

80's Wisk

tisk tisk tisk....Wisk, Wisk..WISK!!!!!..I miss the old formula of Wisk from the 80's.It was in the red plastic bottle with the yellow cap. It was thick and really was a great detergent.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Yes, so do I. It was a real "all-purpose" detergent, "heavy-duty" and affordable, and the bottles were convenient.

 

[veg-o-matic]

One of the great things about the "old" formulation of Wisk was that it made your white appliances look even whiter--just a little Wisk in a pail of water and wash away.

veg

 

[westyslantfront]

I remember when I hung out at the local laundromat and people used Wisk in Philco front loaders for ring around the collar.
Within seconds, the suds were flowing out of the top of the machine. I would tell people to put in fabric softener to kill the excess suds.

Ross

 

[launderess]

Those Dirty Rings

You've tried scrubbing, spraying and soaking them out and still you have "ring around the collar, ring around the collar".

Always thought that commercial was a hoot. Then again was merely a child and thought most things comical. *LOL*

L.

 

[sudsman]

i still remember the jingle

I loved it too!

 

[mickeyd]

Regular original powered Tide

This was an accidental suds-cake, i.e. I forgot I had a load in the Easy, and it warshed for about an hour, in Plain old reg'lar Tide powder.

Tide Cold sudses heavily, but the smell is not my favorite.

I remember the "ring" jingle too and I still get ring around the collar when I send my shirts to the front-loading commercial shirt laundry, but it somehow magically vanishes when I wash my shirts in my own top-loading machines. hmmmm

 

[bongobro]

2006 Tide with Bleach vs. 1957 Wisk for Family Wash

Suds in today's laundry detergents are almost non-existent any more...they began disappearing about the time phosphates were taken out of detergents in the '70s...and I remember seeing Consumer Reports articles about washers of that era (GE and Frigidaire in particular) that contained the tag: "Low-sudsing detergents may be needed to prevent oversudsing, particularly in soft water."

Now with the resurgence of front-loaders, suds are a vice not a virtue...

 

[launderess]

Hate to tell you "suds",as far as American non-HE detergents are still out there. Use too much of most versions,including the "HE" formula and you'll have a suds episode worthy of "The Little Rascals".

Yes, sudsing is not important for cleaning, but too many consumers still believe so, so some detergent makers oblige. Still, as washing machines must continue to do more with less water, we will see more clean rinsing/low foaming detergents for all machines, top and front loaders.

L.

 

[frigilux]

I wish Tide would add just one more variation to their extensive line: NO-SUDSING TIDE. I would buy 10 cases and be stocked for the rest of my life!

 

[westyslantfront]

I use liquid Tide HE in my front loaders at Frigidaire 1-18 and it really is low sudsing. I tried Tide HE powder and it was pretty foamy. I just got a box a Gain powder. Smells great but plenty of foam.

Ross

 

[frigilux]

I never have problems with oversudsing in the wash cycle of my FL'er using HE detergents; it's just that the rinses all seem to have almost as much suds as the wash. The stuff just doesn't want to rinse out in my very soft water.

I used liquid Tide HE in a FrigeMore at a friend's (he has moderatly hard water) and the suds were completely gone after the first rinse. This leads me to believe my soft water is the issue.