Electrosol is Finished?
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The formula continues,
but, yes, Electrosol brand has been "Finish"-ed.
Please see threads #17017 "Electrosol is now....Finish," and #17241, "I Just saw....On TV," both in this section.
We may not dig change, but the Marketing people do.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
but, yes, Electrosol brand has been "Finish"-ed.
Please see threads #17017 "Electrosol is now....Finish," and #17241, "I Just saw....On TV," both in this section.
We may not dig change, but the Marketing people do.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
westyslantfront
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I just bought a box of Electrasol the other day in my local supermarket. I prefer it to Cascade because it has chlorine and does a much better job than Cascade did.
Ross
Ross
i could care less, I use cascade 2-1 action paks. Never been an electrasol fan, their tabs foam up in every machine i've put them in.
but electrasol is such a set brand in the US i'm shocked they'd change it to something nobody knows.
but electrasol is such a set brand in the US i'm shocked they'd change it to something nobody knows.
Nobody knows?
"Finish" was an established brand in the US througout the mid 1970s.
Finish is Reckitt-Benckiser's worldwide dishwasher detergent brand, so, it made sense. (If only to them.)
Lawrence/Maytagbear
"Finish" was an established brand in the US througout the mid 1970s.
Finish is Reckitt-Benckiser's worldwide dishwasher detergent brand, so, it made sense. (If only to them.)
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Electrosol is Finished
I remember Finish was here in the USA until about 1985.
Also Calgonite went away about that time. I currently use cascade powder. I used to like calgonite, I wish they would bring that back.
Peter
I remember Finish was here in the USA until about 1985.
Also Calgonite went away about that time. I currently use cascade powder. I used to like calgonite, I wish they would bring that back.
Peter
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finish
when i was in early grade school, like 2 or 3 grade, cascade and finish were the only two dw detergents around. cascade smelled more like clorox than finish. finish had a more strange sort of chemical smell to it. people in our neighborhood used each one, i guess, depending which one was on sale the time they went to the store.
we also had a lot of returning military people from germany who brought with them the slant westys! when they moved in to our new houses, they were surprised to have portable ge mobilemaids or the built in pull out westy dws.
c in va
when i was in early grade school, like 2 or 3 grade, cascade and finish were the only two dw detergents around. cascade smelled more like clorox than finish. finish had a more strange sort of chemical smell to it. people in our neighborhood used each one, i guess, depending which one was on sale the time they went to the store.
we also had a lot of returning military people from germany who brought with them the slant westys! when they moved in to our new houses, they were surprised to have portable ge mobilemaids or the built in pull out westy dws.
c in va
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I have used Electrosol in the past with HORRIBLE results. About 25% of my dishes would not come out clean with Electrosol. Cascade cleans all of my dishes with a 99% cleaning rate. I have an old KDS-14, and I love it! Good bye, Electrosol.
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I don't use Electrasol/Finish, but I couldn't help noticing that the smallest containers of are on 1/2 price sale at our two largest supermarket chains here (it is unusual for both chains to have the same product on sale at all simultaneously, much less for the same price).
The box versions all were marked with the "Electrasol/Finish" moniker. Many of the "Fresh Scent" liquid bottles were "Electrasol" only.
I'm not familiar with this particular product, but a quick sniff test of all of them, including the lemon and orange versions, showed that the product itself has a markedly strong chlorine bleach fragrance...far more noticeable, IMHO, than any other dishwasher product.
I usually like a bleachy component to such a fragrance, but it made me wonder....does the Electrasol product rely much more heavily on its bleach component, at the expense of enzymes, phosphorus, etc.?
With an eye to the eventual phaseout of phosphorus in dishwasher products here, could a heavier reliance on chlorine bleach be another way of compensating for the loss of phosphorus as an effective cleaning agent, bypassing more costly enzyme-based formulas in soft water areas?
The box versions all were marked with the "Electrasol/Finish" moniker. Many of the "Fresh Scent" liquid bottles were "Electrasol" only.
I'm not familiar with this particular product, but a quick sniff test of all of them, including the lemon and orange versions, showed that the product itself has a markedly strong chlorine bleach fragrance...far more noticeable, IMHO, than any other dishwasher product.
I usually like a bleachy component to such a fragrance, but it made me wonder....does the Electrasol product rely much more heavily on its bleach component, at the expense of enzymes, phosphorus, etc.?
With an eye to the eventual phaseout of phosphorus in dishwasher products here, could a heavier reliance on chlorine bleach be another way of compensating for the loss of phosphorus as an effective cleaning agent, bypassing more costly enzyme-based formulas in soft water areas?
