2006 Tide With Bleach vs. 1957 Wisk for Family Wash

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

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