A New Feature on AE - 1962 Laundry Detergent Report

[Unimatic1140]

Hi everyone, I'm experimenting on Automatic Ephemera with free to download, text based ephemera documents. These documents will be scanned and sent through a OCR system to convert the scan image into actual text. Now OCR technology (optical character recognition) has come a long way in the past decade, but it is not perfect so you still might see a few mistakes in the text that I didn't catch. But it's a great way to permanently share public domain (copyright free) documents.

When you see any ephemera document where it's index bar is highlighted in pink, these are the new live documents (see image below). I created a reader so you can read the them on line. Since these are completely free, they will be ad supported, but nothing too intrusive. I'm also considering attaching a social media comment system to these "Live" documents, but I have to research what that takes and experiment.

Anyway I posted the first couple of the documents and more will be coming soon. Check out the 1962 report on Laundry Detergents! It's a great read.

http://www.automatice.org

 

[kenmoreguy89]

This is GREAT!
Thanks Robert!
It's a wonderful news!

 

[supersuds]

woohoo

Interesting Consumer Bulletin detergent report from 1962 -- since comments aren't open in the new section yet.

Looks like they concluded that high sudsing products did in fact work better than low sudsing products available at that time, confirming many a housewife's suspicions!

No Lever Bros. products made the recommended high-sudsing list, although several store brands did. Fluffy All made the low-sudsing recommended list, but apparently not regular All?

Dash needed a higher dose than recommended on the box to get best results (as did Silver Dust.)

Of the P&G high-suds brands, Duz was recommended, but Cheer was a notch lower!

Finally, Supersuds was in the top group. A bit surprising as I always thought it was a bargain brand.

 

[Unimatic1140]

From the 1962 Detergent Report...

What I want to know is what exactly are those Tide "Redi-Paks"? So is each individual pack simply a plastic wrapped 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 cup package of Tide? I would have to assume that you cut these packs open and pour them into the washer or the dispenser and not toss it in and have that huge bag dissolve?

Can you imagine the coin laundromats with Bendix or Westinghouse front loaders with those Redi-Paks. I'm sure the majority of users didn't pay attention and used that whole pack of regular tide in a front loader, and we're awash in suds lol!

 

[supersuds]

Never seen any of the packets either

The report does say, in a picture caption, that the packet is dropped into the wash water and the plastic film dissolves.

I forgot to say it before: Thanks, Robert!

 

[foraloysius]

Wonderful! Now we know suds clean! LOL

 

[westie2]

Yes Robert the Tide packs had dissolving packets. They were in a big Tide box and if your fingers were slightly damp would fall apart in your hands. The box would not keep moisture out so if really humid the packets would dissolve. At the time they were out we still had a Maytag EL2 and my mother bought a box of them. Hands had to be dry or the detergent would be all over the floor. They were not on the market very long.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Wow you are right John, I didn't notice that caption or it didn't sink in. It is a huge bag to dissolve! I wonder what the box looked like, doing a search I find absolutely nothing.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

So when these Tide packets were born? Until when they lasted?
So we could consider them like the predecessors of Tide pods idea?
I bet they were much better though! Not that it takes much...