2x Concentrates now available in Omo,Surf etc in Oz.

[twinniefan]

I noticed while shopping with my sister on Wednesday the new range of 2x concentrates are instore now, from Unilever,Omo and Surf from Colgate Palmolive,Fab and Dynamo and also Radiant are in on the act,has anyone in Oz tried any of these yet?
Funnily enough these products were under attack in the Daily Telegraph today,Saturday with the newspaper's consumer fighter?? John Rolfe and various letter writers claiming that the new products are a ripoff saying they have less detergent but still cost just as much as before.
I don't know I like seeing new products but I must say I do kind of miss the old 1kg and 1.5kg boxes the powders used to come in,before concentrating became fashionable.
Does anyone else remember those? and the old 2kg box of Castle powder with the lemon scent.
If anyone wants to read the article, just go to www.thedailytelegraph.com.au and scan through the various articles you will come across it.
Cheers.
Steve.

 

[hoovermatic]

I remember Castle and Hurricaine detergent when I used to live in Oz. Loved Hurricaine and next to Cold Power, was my fave!

 

[twinniefan]

Hurricane still here

Actually Hoovermatic, Hurricane is still here however it too I think is another concentrate and also comes in a 3 litre liquid, it used to made and owned by an Australian company but it is now owned by Colgate-Palmolive.
I am not really sure what happened to Castle, I do recall for some time it was relaunched and rebadged as yet another concentrate called Castle Excel and it was pretty good too as a matter of fact.
I am sure one of the other intrepid Aussies here will know, but for the life of me I just cannot recall what happened to it.

 

[ronhic]

I have not yet bought any of the new 'super' concentrates...and even though you are meant to get the same number of washes per box, paying $5.00 odd for 500gm of Omomatic does make me baulk...

I still have 5 boxes of the old style Omomatic 1 cup formula which I guard with my life....

...Who said I wasn't a size queen...

http://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/THREADS/SANDBOX/20815x24.htm

 

[rapunzel]

I just bought a 15 kg box of Advanced Formula Cold Power. Picked it up at Big W a few weeks back. It smells like the traditional Cold Power of years ago, creates a mean suds cake and works really well. The concentrated Cold Power formula is good too, but it doesn't have that traditional Cold Power smell anymore. To my mind Cold Power is a fantastic product and I keep coming back to it all the time. I actually use it in hot and warm water as well.

 

[mattywashboy]

i am a Radiant user mainly. Don't like the scent of Omo, a bit strong for my liking. I do have a few bottles of Omo Quickwash 3x concentrate coz it smells totally different and a lot nicer and it cleans great. Although Mum likes the Radiant so i pick her up 3kg boxes from the IGA i work at, works great i reckon, smells awesome too.
When i lived out of home tho i was a Drive and a Dynamo person. The liquid varieties of both are awesome until they stopped selling Drive Liquid (the buggers). Anyone else love Drive Liquid??
Matt