laundryshark
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Apparently, one could collect free towels from this classic detergent brand. Did other detergent brands also have free towels? I know Duz had the drinking glasses.--Laundry Shark
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autowasherfreak
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Breeze was all my mother used for years.
I was always fascinated by Breeze with the free towels. I would ask politely, then nag and plead, whatever to get my Mom to try a box of Breeze, finally one day she did. The towel was a dissappointment and the product was too sudsy for us (we had a water softener) but it was fun. I didn't ask for years, then we tried another box but by then it only had a dish towel in the box.
Years later I was shocked to find a box in the laundry cabinet that she bought without me asking. Seems to me it was gone from the store shelves by the mid-80s?
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Years later I was shocked to find a box in the laundry cabinet that she bought without me asking. Seems to me it was gone from the store shelves by the mid-80s?
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Let's see - Regular Duz detergent contained at various times glasses or stainless steel flatware. At the end they went back to glasses. P&G also had "premium Duz" which contained Homer Laughlin designed and manufactured "golden wheat" dinnerware. Homer Laughlin was the company that manufactured Fiestaware. Also, premium Duz came in odd sizes - their boxes were not very deep and were labelled Giant Size and Queen Size. It was also fairly expensive as detergents went - even expensive as premium products. Breeze always contained towels and Silver Dust (also Lever) originally contained towels, then glasses, then towels again by the time it disappeared in the early 70's. Also, two others contained early premuims. Surf from the 50's contained individual pieces of flatware and Rinso White soap contained flatware as well.
In 1966 P&G introduced another premium detergent - Bonus that contained towels. Again, a fairly unremarkable product and I don't think that lasted more than a few years.
The thing to remember about the detergents with premiums was that they were all more expensive than regular detergents and while the boxes were the same sizes as regular detergents, you got less product because the "free premuim" took up room. So the smart homemaker could figure that out. I think those products contained a fairly high percentage of filler as well. The instructions on both Silver Dust and Breeze recommended starting with 1-1/2 - 2 cups to start. So you lost money there as well. And not surprisingly,the quality of those premiums was fairly poor. Those Breeze bath towels that were in the King Size box were barely big enough to dry a child and luxurious they were not.
Ultimately, Duz disappeared around 1979 or 80, oremium Duz was gone by the late 60's, Silver Dust was gone by the early 70's and Breeze hung on until sometime in the mid 80's, again becoming a Lever bargain brand.
Many of you may remember that Surf left the shelves in the early 70's branded as "Cold Water Surf", then was reintroduced in 1985. And I must say that the reintroduced version was an excellent product often topping Consumer Reports detergent ratings. Very sudsy though and I had many suds overflows in the GE filter flo with that. However, I loved the scent and still have a box tightly wrapped in plastic. But Lever simply couldn't compete with the P&G advertising machine - and truthfully never advertised that much. So again over time, Surf languished and became a second rate product.
In 1966 P&G introduced another premium detergent - Bonus that contained towels. Again, a fairly unremarkable product and I don't think that lasted more than a few years.
The thing to remember about the detergents with premiums was that they were all more expensive than regular detergents and while the boxes were the same sizes as regular detergents, you got less product because the "free premuim" took up room. So the smart homemaker could figure that out. I think those products contained a fairly high percentage of filler as well. The instructions on both Silver Dust and Breeze recommended starting with 1-1/2 - 2 cups to start. So you lost money there as well. And not surprisingly,the quality of those premiums was fairly poor. Those Breeze bath towels that were in the King Size box were barely big enough to dry a child and luxurious they were not.
Ultimately, Duz disappeared around 1979 or 80, oremium Duz was gone by the late 60's, Silver Dust was gone by the early 70's and Breeze hung on until sometime in the mid 80's, again becoming a Lever bargain brand.
Many of you may remember that Surf left the shelves in the early 70's branded as "Cold Water Surf", then was reintroduced in 1985. And I must say that the reintroduced version was an excellent product often topping Consumer Reports detergent ratings. Very sudsy though and I had many suds overflows in the GE filter flo with that. However, I loved the scent and still have a box tightly wrapped in plastic. But Lever simply couldn't compete with the P&G advertising machine - and truthfully never advertised that much. So again over time, Surf languished and became a second rate product.
I was wondering when Surf came back. I knew it was in the 80s but didn't know when. We loved the original 1985 re-introduction version. We didn't have the soft water sudsing issue then, but I do remember it being sudsy. The scent was what I liked so much. A year or so after they made the first scent change, I found about a half dozen original boxes in various Eckerd's around town and was thrilled until I used them to find that the scent had either largely vanished or changed into this cheap perfumey smell.
Another scent of the time that I really liked was Fab's lemon. CP later told me that the same scent was being used in Ajax (mid 90s?) but I could not find any anywhere.
Another scent of the time that I really liked was Fab's lemon. CP later told me that the same scent was being used in Ajax (mid 90s?) but I could not find any anywhere.
Joke
Why did the woman go to bed with a box of DUZ?
...Because DUZ does EVERYTHING!
(Thanks Mom for the bawdy 1950s joke...)
Why did the woman go to bed with a box of DUZ?
...Because DUZ does EVERYTHING!
(Thanks Mom for the bawdy 1950s joke...)
cehalstead
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correction
Homer Laughlin IS the company that MANUFACTURES Fiesta...the company is very much still in business......
Homer Laughlin IS the company that MANUFACTURES Fiesta...the company is very much still in business......
When Surf first came out in the 1950's, it was toted as the No Rinse Detergent. No rinse? ahhh? We had a neighbor who did her laundry with Surf and didn't rinse.(she had a wringer washer). My mom said that she was lazy and would do anything to keep from doing more work. Mom also would say that her whites (on the clothes line) look grey and dingy. Her son and I hung out together and we got caught in a thunder storm on the way home from school. He had suds running down his pant legs. At least this pair of jeans got rinsed. Have fun, Gary
