Dawn Ruined By P&G

[foraloysius]

Thanks Eddie for the link. It answers most questions here.

I just found out that a bird rescue center overhere in the Netherlands uses Dreft dishwashing liquid, also a P&G product. Apparently it makes a difference what is used.

In the 70’s we collected money for a bird rescue center that a woman started in het livingroom! That was later professionalised. They developed a bird washing machine that made cleaning a bird much shorter so it was less stressful.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

p&g

P&G just can't leave well enough alone.

 

[me]

The RSPCA use, or at least used to use Fairy Liquid, yet another P&G product.

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2019-08-05/wildlife-centre-appeals-for-washing-up-liquid-after-oiled-birds-found-near-tamworth

 

[cleanteamofny]

 

 

Today, I just used the new Dawn, and boy, oh boy, this scent is overwhelming.

For those who have been through Chemo, our noses are very sensitive to scents.

Dawn's original scent is mild and tolerable to our senses, so this new scent should be avoided at all costs.

It's hard to describe. This new scent is very familiar, and it just hit me.

My mom used to wear Chanel No 5 powder, and this new scent is very close to it.

I do not know why a product has to be improved by scent-changing.

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[stan]

Posted this in another thread

But Fels Naptha is ruined too
Brand sold to Summit Brands a couple of years ago and the new bar is Horrid! Not even close to the clean scent it once had nor is the formula.
I’m not a consumer of a lot of commercial cleaning products anymore (I make my own) but I don’t want the few I use to be messed with!

 

[mrsalvo]

Stan,
It really is getting harder to find products and soaps one can handle. I totally agree with you.

Barry

 

[yuccadew]

I’m a little late to this thread, but a couple of other things that have had recent scent changes:

Irish Spring Original Deodorant Soap (about 2 years ago).

Caress Beauty Bars. This is one I’ve been using since childhood, and I’m really upset about the change. It has a horrible, sweet mixed with chemicals scent now. Formula is different too. However, I found some of the old bars in a close out store and bought a ton of it, so I should be good for a while, as long as I rotate it with other things.

Jergens Liquid Hand Soap.

And Jergens & Tone Bar Soaps have been discontinued all together .

 

[tomturbomatic]

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[gelaundry4ever]

dawn

Does Dawn think we're stupid? I love scents, but I don't like the chemical smell that's overpowering. If it mixes in with the water, it should become fore fresh and less intense.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

p&g

This is why I quit using P&G stuff. Tide, Cascade, and Downy don't smell as good as they used to, much less Dawn. Finish, Persil, Snuggle, and Palmolive smell better to me.

 

[maytag85]

“The illusion of choice”

Oh, tell me about it! Not to take this off the tracks, but I recently discovered Hydrox sandwich cookies awhile back, searched everywhere on Amazon, Walmart, can’t seem to find them. Turns out, Mondelez International deliberately puts them behind other items, puts them on their side, absolute swine for doing that.

Never had a Hydrox cookie, but heard they have more of a natural flavor to them.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

dawn ultra fresh clean scent

I do use this detergent, granted, it does clean fine. I'll try palmolive next time.

 

[askolover]

I just buy the Walmart version of dawn. Works great and doesn't smell bad to me

 

[ea56]

Re:#49

Hydrox chocolate sandwich cookies are way better than Oreo’s. The filling in the Hydrox cookies is what makes them better than Oreo’s, not as greasy. When I was growing up we never had Oreo’s in our home, but my Mom bought Hydrox cookies regularly. I haven’t seen Hydrox cookies in a store in decades.

Eddie

 

[maytag85]

Reply #52

Discovered Hydrox cookies back in august since a popular YouTuber (can’t remember who is was) made a video on how Oreo copied Hydrox and ran with it.

Believe it or not, Hydrox cookies were resurrected back in 2014 by Leaf brands which is a brand built on nostalgia of snack type items from a bygone era. Hydrox can be found at Cracker Barrel and Amazon, however they must have been out of stock at the time when I was on the hunt for them not too long after I discovered them.

This basically what sums up people in my age demographic for being nostalgic for things before my time. Even crazier knowing the 2000’s were the last of the simple times even though cell phones and social media existed, however social media was still in it’s infancy in the 2000’s and mainly was chat rooms and forums such as this one. Another thing too is you couldn’t be on the phone and internet at the same time since dialup instead was still the norm 19 to 20 years ago.

 

[ea56]

RE:#53

“Another thing too is you couldn’t be on the phone and internet at the same time since dialup instead was still the norm 19 to 20 years ago.”

Oh how I remember this! It was terrible just trying to get a connection to the internet in the first place on Dial Up, and then frequently you’d lose the connection when you were right in the middle of something you were trying to do. Then came DSL, and it wasn’t much of an improvement, only in that you could be on the phone at the same time as you were on the net, which was often necessary because you’d have to be on thee phone with AT&T arguing about how SLOW your DSL was! I don’t miss this at ALL!

I had to keep a supply of replacement line filters on hand because they frequently failed and I went through at least three DSL modems at my expense before we finally dumped AT&T in 2012 and went with Comcast high speed broadband. What an improvement!

Thanks for the tip on where you can buy Hydrox cookies. One if these days I may take a trip down memory lane and order some. I wonder if they are the same and the Hydrox I remember from yore, somehow I doubt they will be.

Eddie

 

[circlew]

When I first got a computer around 1998 I had dial-up through AOL. It was OK, but tied up the phone line as mentioned above. Also, the local access numbers were frequently busy, so sometimes had to connect on ones that were long distance at that time. I thought about an additional line like my neighbors next door (they had two local lines, plus Cincinnati FX line), but didn't want to spend that much. I then switched to internet from Time-Warner (Spectrum), and it was good when it worked properly. It would always slow down in the late afternoon when the neighbor kid Caleb up the street got home from school, and started playing video games. It was expensive, too. Eventually dropped them and went to Frontier DSL, and had very little trouble. I kept that until I moved from the rental house back down the street to my own house I've been renovating. The conduit under the driveway got damaged, and the phone company couldn't get the wire to go through it, so I didn't get phone service hooked up here. My computer got struck by lightning before I moved back, so didn't get another since I wouldn't have internet for it. During the late Summer and Fall, AltaFiber (Cincinnati Bell) has been running fiber optic cables in my neighborhood, and should be providing service by May. I'm going to dig up the damaged conduit in the Spring and repair it so they can run their cable to the house. I plan to get another computer after that, as I'm tired of doing it on my cell phone or at the library.

 

[launderess]

Dial-up memories....

Recall when first received DSL. It was such a huge thing, Verizon sent people to one's home to hook and set everything up including programming computer.

Our first month's phone bill after installing DSL was huge. Contacted Verizon and CSR stated "you have been making larger number of telephone calls past month than usual". One replied hadn't done any such thing but then CSR noticed recently had DSL installed. She explained we have "untimed" service. That is pay set rate per call no matter how long duration. That was a wake-up moment.

Ever since one would simply log onto DSL and remain for hours, entire day, night....

This of course meant anyone attempting to reach us via telephone would receive engaged signal. At one point Mother Dear forced an operator to break into "call" with "we have an urgent telephone call from Mrs.XXX, would you please disconnect your line.." We did and mother instantly rang up and began giving lengthy well reasoned abuse..."I've been trying to call you all day but your line is busy...."

As usual what mother had to say was of not huge consequence that couldn't have waited, but you know mothers, what they've got to say is always of high importance...

Any who was happy when DSL came along so wouldn't have to bother with tying up telephone line. Which by the way wasn't only one... Tons of friends and others received or made same complaints. One would try to reach persons (especially from Friday evening through weekend) and line was constantly engaged.

 

[dermacie]

I switched from Palmolive to Dawn because it didn’t seem to clean as well anymore. I am over most of the products today. I feel everyone’s pain and Keven made me laugh. The cake mixes shrunk so much you get an inch and half tall cake. Those dishwasher tabs are expensive and awful.

 

[maytag85]

Reply #54

The only ‘good’ thing about dialup internet was you had to spend time wisely on the internet, couldn’t really be on the internet for hours on end like you can today without much of a problem. Even though my parents’ had dialup internet back in the 2000’s, couldn’t really do much. As a result, would just play outside, watch television (mainly movies on VHS), go to the park, go swimming at a pool of a family friend, go to the beach since I lived in Oceanside (lived there up until 2006), would go to McDonald’s on a nice evening in the Spring and Summer months for ice cream.

I believe Hydrox is still made the same way as it was many years ago, may have been tweaked but otherwise the same.