Discontinued detergents/products that you remember

[abcomatic]

I miss the following: American Family soap and DETERGENT. Yes, they made detergent too; it was in a red box with white lettering and was wonderful! Mom used it in our wringer machines and we had many of those due to having salt water in the house.
Surf from the 50' and 60's, Vim tablets for the wash. Vel for the dishes and the bath. Cashmere Bouquet. Happy washing. Gary

 

[liamy1]

So the only liquid form of Persil available in the UK is Sma

In the main supermarkets, Small&Mighty is all you will find (Ocado does sell the non-bio liquigel, but ONLY the non bio one and only Ocado sells it).

You can still get Liquigel; the only place I can recall off the top of my head is the Cash and Carry - Makro.

http://www.makro.co.uk/laundry-detergent/page/2/

 

[toploader55]

Sta-puf.

Love the scent. Never used Fabric Softner after they dis continued it.

(In the Glass Bottle). The Plastic Bottle was a slightly different formula or seemed to me.

 

[paulg]

Jubilee is available in Chicago

Just bought a bottle! At the hardware store. Looks the same as always.

 

[tjb]

Discontinued Detergents

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oxydol, Instant Fels, Cheer, LaFrance Whitener/Brightener, Snowy Bleach, Salvo Tablets, Kirkman Flakes, Ivory Flakes, Lux, Rinso, Cold Power, Duz, Dishwasher All, Electrasol, Sta-Puf Softener, Rain Barrel Softener, Final Touch Softener, Nucoa Softener, </span>

 

[tjb]

Discontinued Detergents

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oxydol, Instant Fels, Cheer, LaFrance Whitener/Brightener, Snowy Bleach, Salvo Tablets, Kirkman Flakes, Ivory Flakes, Lux, Rinso, Cold Power, Drive, Punch, Fab with Lemon Freshened Borax, Duz, Dishwasher All, Electrasol, Sta-Puf Softener, Rain Barrel Softener, Final Touch Softener, Nucoa Softener, ShopRite Fluffy Pink Fabric Softener.</span>

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Ecolab Solid Force:

Hands down the best Dish Machine Detergent I've ever used.
WK78

 

[yuccadew]

^ Great photo, Tjb

I couldn’t find a photo, but around 2007-09 Whole Foods had their 365 brand dryer sheets in a pink box with some kind of a floral scent. I forget the name of the scent, but it was so soft, floral and light. I normally buy unscented dryer sheets, but that was one I liked.

Opaque white dish liquids with mild scents. Ivory was mentioned in an older comment up above, but there was also Dove.

Mop & Glo floor cleaner

Glass Plus is still being sold, but they recently updated the packaging (again), and that kind of ruined it for me. The last bottle design was better, but what I really liked was the old style bottle pictured here:

 

[rinso]

I still have an ancient bottle of Mrs. Stewart's Blueing. It only takes a few drops in the final rinse, and I have used it from time to time.

 

[ea56]

Mrs. Stewart’s Bluing

When I was in the 8th grade in ‘64 there was an older woman named Mrs Amundsen that lived near the school that used Mrs. Stewart’s Bluing on her white hair as a final rinse. She didn’t apply it very evenly and her hair used to look like the sky with fluffy clouds in it. I thought that it was a fascinating look.

We used to use it in the final rinse for whites in the laundry tub that we rinsed the clothes that were washed in our Maytag Wringer washer.

Eddie

 

[panasonicvac]

I remember this non HE Tide powder was one of the things that really got me into laundry.

 

[yuccadew]

^Lol about the Mrs Stewart’s Bluing. I think I might just try that. Today I was searching for White Brite but the store that used to carry it doesn’t have it. Maybe I’ll buy that instead. Our well water makes whites so dingy.

And I always like the original Tide powder too, my mother used that when I was growing up.

 

[justjunque]

I miss the original scent of several products.
Dawn dish detergent. Tide powder. April Fresh Downy. There's more that I just can't think of at the moment.
As for a product that I miss; Final Touch fabric softener. I don't know if it's officially discontinued, but we haven't been able to find it anywhere for quite some time now.
In a web search, the only thing I can find says that it was discontinued by the manufacturer in 2018. We definitely bought it more recently than that. Maybe until last year.

 

[yuccadew]

^ The scents were so nostalgic, and also wish some stayed the same. I still have a tiny bottle of Palmolive dish liquid from before they changed it to whatever the smell is now, and sniff it occasionally for the nostalgia.

How about DidiSeven stain remover? I remember the commercials but never tried it. I can’t believe they still make it. Maybe I’ll try it sometime and see if it really works:

 

[launderess]

Far as one knows Final Touch fabric softener was discontinued back in 2018. There seems to be quite a lot of it out there so maybe someone else bought the name.

https://www.ontimesupplies.com/pbc5... been discontinued by,longer have it in stock.

For those who like a good read....

https://www.ontimesupplies.com/pbc5... been discontinued by,longer have it in stock.

Downy (P&G) was top selling premium FS on US market with Final Touch (Lever Bros.) second in sales. Balance of market was made up of lesser brands such as Lavender Sachet with Sta-Puf dead last (barely one percent market share).

What happened to Final Touch? Lever Bros. launched Snuggle, that's what. *LOL*

Though Lever Bros. hadn't intended for Snuggle FS to cannibalize sales from Final Touch, in many markets that is exactly what happened.

Snuggle was positioned as lower priced offering compared to Downy and Final Touch. Latter's claim to fame against Downy wasn't so much softening but whitening.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?32189_3

https://baltimorebrew.com/2014/02/1...ial-baltimore-succumbs-to-changing-economics/

 

[joeekaitis]

The multi-sensory Polaroid peel-apart picture experience

 

The whiff of smoke from the Sylvania Blue Dot flashbulb or flashcube depending on the camera model.

 

The pungent aroma of the alkaline developer gel.

 

Oh, and the finished picture.

 

[yuccadew]

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[angus]

I think Pure and Natural is still sold - not widely available for sure and only in the "personal size" (as opposed to "bath size"). I will look next time I am at one of the smaller ethnic supermarkets in my area. Reminds me a bit of Lux soap (at least the scent does anyway - floral but slightly fatty)

 

[yuccadew]

^ That would great, I’ll go search for it locally too if it’s still around in other markets. Haven’t seen it in years, only Dial Basics, but I think that one has been discontinued too (recently).

Ivory is a good soap and I go back to that one often, but wish the company would bring back some of these other things in the classic Ivory soap scent:

 

[justjunque]

Ivory products!
When I was growing up, my mom always used Ivory Liquid for dishes. I loved the scent!
And, Ivory Snow as well. I wish more companies would stick with the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of thought.