Persil Washing up liquid now made by McBride

[northernmary]

I was in Sainsbury’s the other week and I wondered down the washing up liquid aisle and saw that Persil washing up liquid had returned to our selves, I’ve always been a Persil washing up liquid fan so I paid £1.00 for a bottle. Got the shopping home to discover that Persil washing up liquid is now being manufactured from Robert McBride, it’s a sad state of affairs that Persil has resulted to Robert MacBride now producing the washing up liquid for Persil. The performance is on a par with supermarket home brand washing up liquid and to be honest it’s disappointing to see that a premium brand has dropped so low now! I suppose it’s a sign of the times.

NorthernMary

 

[northernmary]

Left Hand Corner

 

[donprohel]

Why?

Why "it’s disappointing to see that a premium brand has dropped so low now"?

I cannot understand why the production plant makes such a difference: McBride is a reputable company with excellent production facilities and excellent quality records.

In addition, the ingredients used in detergents are almost the same everywhere in the world.

I really cannot understand your disappointment.

 

[lavamat_jon]

It is a shame somewhat...

...but even back in it's Unilever days, it was nothing compared to Fairy liquid or even Ecover .

 

Jon

 

[northernmary]

Persil use to be a thick liquid and you only needed a spareing amount to get outstanding results I’ve always liked Persil liquid over fairy it isn’t as high performing product as it once was and to be honest if I wanted to purchase a McBride product then I would of bought some Supermarket Home Brand washing up liquid, if the ingredients are almost the same all-over the world why does fairy do a better job at washing up over than a supermarket brand washing up liquid. I don’t know about anyone else here but I feel with supermarket brands you end up using twice as much? I will be going back to Fairy liquid this cheap washing up liquid is false economy and in my opinion, I wondered if the recession has anything to do with this lower production costs = higher profits = lower standard of the product being turned out ??

NorthernMary

 

[spoodles]

Oh dear!

McBride products are terrible! It even looks like the cheapo supermarket brands now. Seeing as Unilever axed it a couple of years ago, due to poor sales, you'd think they'd only want to re-introduce it if it was on a par with Fairy and not just a famous brand slapped on a budget quality product.

I don't see how this will do the Persil brand any favours. If people buy it and think it's rubbish, they might think twice about buying other Persil products.

Surf liquid capsules were also made by McBride for Unilever when they first launched a year or two ago, but recently they have switched back to Unilever and been relaunched along with the rest of the Surf range. Maybe they are using McBride to test the market with products they aren't sure about?

 

[MrX]

In most European markets, in my experience, Unilever has no presence as a maker of washing-up liquid for hand-washing dishes.

They sold Persil Dishwashing liquid in the UK and Quix in Ireland for quite a while though.

It's possible that since they stopped making both of those products, that they simply do not have any ability to manufacture the product themselves anymore so they have just contracted it out to McBride who are contract manufacturing it according to Unilever's formula.

I have never really understood why Unilever would want to confuse the branding of Persil with a dishwashing product though. It would have made a lot more sense to have a brand like Sun hand-dish washing liquid to go alongside their machine-wash products.

I even know of one person in England who doesn't speak great English who managed to use Persil dishwashing liquid in their washing machine, assuming it was a laundry product.

You sort of automatically assume Persil = Laundry.

 

[MrX]

Actually, the obvious branding would be CIF for dishes!

I was just thinking the most obvious branding would be Cif for dishes!

The best washing-up liquid I have ever used was Henkel's Mistol in Spain. It came with a version that contained extracts of herbs that was just a fantastic product. It was *FAR* better than P&G España's Fairy liquid.

 

[ozzie908]

Now if Finish .....

Made a washing up liquid would it be as good as Fairy ??? After all Fairy Dishwasher tabs are quite good.

 

[aquarius1984]

Personally dont get the hype about Fairy Liquid.

Been washing up by hand in the new place for 3 months and Fairy "Mild Green" practically rotted my hands, spent a few days in misery smearing E45 and atrixo on them so calm the inflammed skin down.

Fairy with Olay did just the same.

Been thru the brands I can tell you - gotten into using WUL as a cleaner too for general use around the kitchen. Clean as you go and there should be no use for anything like oven cleaner or antibacs!

SO now its the 59p Tesco Lemon WUL or any of the McBride variants,

Used in HOT water - non of that namby pamby luke cold washing water they perform exclellently removing AND dissolving the grease INTO the wash water. Noticed sometimes with Fairy it floated on top of the water meaning that as soon as you removed the dishes the grease was redeposited back onto the dish.

Also Mc brides dont foam as much nor does the water feel too soapy. Fairy fails on both these counts meaning extra rinsing is required with yet more hot water.
Nor do they create so much suds the sink requires more water to swill them down the drain or leaving them be leave pools of cold grease and bits of food in the plug holes.
False economy I dont think so really - the Mc Bride lot is great stuff and at a snip.

I wouldnt use anything else now.
Guests whom have washed up here have also not complained! LOL

 

[rolls_rapide]

Fairy suds

If the Fairy liquid suds too much, how does it perform if you use less of it?

Years ago, I had the task of washing dishes by hand and the hot water and detergent ruined my hands, so much so that I had to see a dermatologist. Anyway not long after that, we got a dishwasher.

Back in the 1970's mum used to use SqEzy washing up liquid. Was it made by Lever?

 

[ozzie908]

SqEzy

Now thats a blast from the past along with Handy Andy liquid cleaner from what I recall it was a thick lime green colour that you could use neat on a cloth or in a bucket of hot water with a mop.... Now who made that ?