FAIRY SNOW

[organboy1974]

For UK members one still appears to be able to get this at some branches of Co-op. I cleared out the Stafford store a few weeks ago. Don't know whether they've got any more in. I didn't think this was still being manufactured. My twinnies were delighted with it. Foam everywhere. I've got bored with Das and Ariel now.

 

[toggleswitch2]

oooh now that's what to call a queen's major dandruf

So is it detergent or soap or both?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Fairy Snow...

Ohh thats takes you right back, first produced in UK 1957, what we call High Sudsing for handwash, twintubs and agi top loaders...loaded with up to 30% phosphates

 

[hoovermatic]

The smell of Fairy Snow from the 1970's is a very evocative memory. One of those fragrances that has never left my nostrils!! I have bought it over the years but it isn't the same as it used to be. Have memories of the most creamy lather!!

 

[mark1973]

I used to love the smell of 1980's Fairy Snow. My gran used it and I would stay over at the weekend and on the Saturday would help with the washing in her Hoovermatic de luxe.

Happy memories

Mark
x

 

[retro-man]

I wonder if this was the same as the american version of ivory snow. I remember this would make mounds of suds. My mother would put some in the bathtub when I was a kid. It made so many bubbles playing in the tub. It was supposedly made to use on baby clothes and diapers so she thought it was ok for me to play in.
Jon

 

[rolls_rapide]

Fairy Snow Jingle from 1968

As heard in the "Washes Whiter" series about British television advertising.

http://www.boomkat.com/jukebox/jbFramed02.cfm?tracks=180680:147150&type=music

 

[rolls_rapide]

Another version

Seems 'he' is out of tune in the audio.

http://www.boomkat.com/jukebox/jbFramed02.cfm?tracks=180644:147114&type=music

 

[launderess]

Ivory Snow & Flakes

Was nothing more than pure Ivory soap in either powder or flake form.

If Fairy Snow claims to "whiten" as it cleans and softens, methinks it is a built laundry soap like Fels Naptha, or not a pure soap at all, but a detergent like today's Ivory Snow.

The UK version of a MSDS lists Fairy Snow as containing washing soda, sodium peroxide, and other things one would not find in pure soap.

L.

 

[organboy1974]

Toggleswitch2, I think you're probably right in this hou

Thanks for the info on this. It still washes well whatever's in it. Can't beat loads of foamy water in the Hoovermatic. I love the box too.