danemodsandy
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Does anyone else have memories of cleaning products that worked well and that you loved, but which are not available any more? It seems that anything I learned to use when I was younger is NLA or MIA or any of those other acronyms that mean you're SOL.
Each item on my list filled a purpose that nothing today does quite as well. Here goes:
- Original Spic 'n Span. Yeah, they still make the powder, but it's now another scent, not the "clean on steroids" smell the product used to have.
- Oxydol. I use today's Oxydol, but I snort every time I look at the box and see the words "Original Scent." Obviously, no one at the company making Oxydol today ever got a whiff of the original.
- Miracle White. My sainted paternal grandmother, Mama Mac, swore by this stuff, and for excellent reason. She could take the grimiest sneakers and make them look like they just came from Thompson-Boland-Lee, the premier Atlanta shoe store when I was a kid.
- Original Pledge. Every Pledge formulation today is oily, not the "hard shell" finish of the original 1958 product, which was made until about ten years ago. It was especially great on hard plastics, like portable TVs and stereo turntable covers. They'd be shiny as new and would repel dust for a long time.
- Glo-Coat. Absolutely wonderful on VCT flooring. Future is still around, and it's an excellent product, but it's just not the same, somehow.
- S-O-Ettes. These were blue foam pads with a thin layer of SOS Pad bonded to one side. You could scour without tearing up your fingertips - or manicure.
- Electrasol. Chock-full of lovely, wonderful, deadly efficient phosphates, so that you never, ever had to worry if the dishes were coming out clean. Well, not unless you had am impeller machine, anyway.
- Texize Dish Detergent. Dawn can't compare to the grease-cutting ability this stuff had. If your hands came out of the dishwater looking like you boiled them along with the lobsters - well, cleanliness always comes at a price.
- Soilax. We used to wash walls at least once a year. Why? Well, you've seen people smoking on Mad Men. Except that Mad Men shows about one-one-hundredth of the smoking that actually went on at that time - my high school had a student smoking area. I can't tell you how popular sandalwood tan walls were for living rooms then. The color hid everything until it was time to get out the Soilax again.
What are your late, lamented cleaning products? And what was it that was so great about them? Have you found any substitutes? Enquiring minds want to know!
Each item on my list filled a purpose that nothing today does quite as well. Here goes:
- Original Spic 'n Span. Yeah, they still make the powder, but it's now another scent, not the "clean on steroids" smell the product used to have.
- Oxydol. I use today's Oxydol, but I snort every time I look at the box and see the words "Original Scent." Obviously, no one at the company making Oxydol today ever got a whiff of the original.
- Miracle White. My sainted paternal grandmother, Mama Mac, swore by this stuff, and for excellent reason. She could take the grimiest sneakers and make them look like they just came from Thompson-Boland-Lee, the premier Atlanta shoe store when I was a kid.
- Original Pledge. Every Pledge formulation today is oily, not the "hard shell" finish of the original 1958 product, which was made until about ten years ago. It was especially great on hard plastics, like portable TVs and stereo turntable covers. They'd be shiny as new and would repel dust for a long time.
- Glo-Coat. Absolutely wonderful on VCT flooring. Future is still around, and it's an excellent product, but it's just not the same, somehow.
- S-O-Ettes. These were blue foam pads with a thin layer of SOS Pad bonded to one side. You could scour without tearing up your fingertips - or manicure.
- Electrasol. Chock-full of lovely, wonderful, deadly efficient phosphates, so that you never, ever had to worry if the dishes were coming out clean. Well, not unless you had am impeller machine, anyway.
- Texize Dish Detergent. Dawn can't compare to the grease-cutting ability this stuff had. If your hands came out of the dishwater looking like you boiled them along with the lobsters - well, cleanliness always comes at a price.
- Soilax. We used to wash walls at least once a year. Why? Well, you've seen people smoking on Mad Men. Except that Mad Men shows about one-one-hundredth of the smoking that actually went on at that time - my high school had a student smoking area. I can't tell you how popular sandalwood tan walls were for living rooms then. The color hid everything until it was time to get out the Soilax again.
What are your late, lamented cleaning products? And what was it that was so great about them? Have you found any substitutes? Enquiring minds want to know!
