Foreign Laundry Detergent/soap Identification

[jkbff]

I very nearly forgot what an amazing resource this site is with all of its members...

My mother and I have been searching for 4 years for this soap that she found one time at a random TJ Maxx...

Please can someone help us find some or sell us some or something... [this post was last edited: 5/28/2014-20:21]

 

[launderess]

Many places seem to sell the bars of soap, but the laundry

detergent is another matter. A quick "Google" turns up a few more persons like yourself who purchased Alighiero Campostrini's baby laundry detergent at TJ Maxx or Marshall's and now cannot find it anymore.

The fact the container is printed in English and Italian tells me the product was intended to export to the USA or at least UK. Both Marshalls and TJ Max tend to get lots of closeout merchandise and over runs. Often once a shipment runs out that is all there is so to speak. You can try contacting the store where purchased and ask if they or a manager, buyer etc.... can run some sort of inventory check. Maybe another store elsewhere has some in stock.

Your best luck however would be to track down the USA distributor or importer. There has to been one somewhere and they would be your best bet to find additional product.

 

[jkbff]

I've tried emailing the people that run the website on the bottle to only get non-English speaking people that have no idea what I'm trying to purchase... I don't speak Italian so I gave up lol.

She has made that one bottle last 4 years LOL because she had 6 stores try to find more for her.

The closest I can find is http://www.prodottiditoscana.se/en/...-liquid-detergent-for-children-s-clothes.html

 

[launderess]

Well not to be rude but it is an Italian Company

So it isn't surprising local distributor or whomever is of that country as well.

It does not seem the powder is made any longer as European websites only list various liquids. Again that would explain why you and others found it at places like TJ Maxx's and Marshall's; both places purchase a good amount of over runs, previous or end of season, or discontinued merchandise.

If you are that keen on finding this stuff you are either going to need someone who speaks Italian to deal with the distributor and or find someone in Europe willing to run the stuff to ground and ship to USA.

Cheers

 

[jkbff]

I guess I was kinda hoping someone would have known of or used this soap before and could recommend an alternative or something.

The website doesn't work and the email address doesn't exist any longer.

I figured it was a long shot but who knows something may come up.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

You probably contacted the factory, soap making mario fissi, that is a smal soap facrory like hundreds you find in Italy and in which probably nobody knows english....I know the factory as I purchased a few times soap bars made by them....
Looking online seems like they also risked a bankrupt, who doesn't here?
Actually, I am quite surprised that they produce stuff for export, you cannot find their stuff sold largely over here, perhaps more in Tuscany where they're based, nor you find liquids laundry stuff, just toilette soap bars and laundry bars scattered in various shops and bazaar and convenience stores and or open markets, not even bigger distribuition, for example I can find their marseille soap bars "centauro" brand at the chinese bazar for 50 cents and it's kinda crap, it is not good quality and need alot of it.... Nothing like the TOL ones, so Ava, Sole, Spuma di Sciampagna, Chante Clair etc...
Their stuff is not TOL or actually artigianal , and honestly am quite surprised that they commissioned them to make it, there are hundreds factories that produce marseille and soaps that are thought being better and that are also known countrywide and also europewide....
But probably it is just because they're based in Tuscany, near Florence, and being a place known wordwide is "fashionable"' and helps giving the idea of caratheristic and all that fake ideas and thoughts americans are told, and so tend to have when they thnk about italy...., after all....they sell what probably isn't even a MOL and probably they sell it for dear bucks just cuz it's from Florence.
That liquid laundry product, probably is just what over here you find everywhere, and that is liquid marseille...
You could find some marseille laundry liquid sold in italian-american websites shops....
Anyway, if you really liked that one, let me know how I could help...I live in Italy, and naturally can speak italian...
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[kenmoreguy89]

All the stuff they tell.... Mr Alighiero Campostrini has been making soaps blah blah blah....is BS, it does not exist a Mr Campostrini that makes artigianal soap , there might have been one that used to though, but now it''s all a tale to sell, Mr Campostrini does not exist like does not exist a soap making facility named that way..., the name etc it's all marketing stuff meant to "fool" people abroad with all the fake crap about Italy like Eataly Lidia's Italy and company....that sell you "the idea about Italy" not what actually is...
Mr Campostrini brand headquarters are same of Mario Fissi in scandicci, same thing!
They invented a brand and a story out of the blue....infact, Campostrini states making soaps Since 1800's....too bad Mario Fissi states that did born just in 1937....

Who makes campostrini stuff is Mario Fissi, soap making factory, you can read it everywhere....all that is branded Campostrini comes feom them, Campostrini it's nothing but them! They also make industrial "hand crafted" soap on large scale, that is nothing like the real artigianal "hand crafted" soap....

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[launderess]

Off The Wall/Garage/Boutique

Soap and or laundry products with various claims including *imported from Europe* and so forth are almost always odd ducks that are heavy on claims and marketing and less on much else. They are imported by often shoestring operations and normally aren't around very long. Excess stock is then sold off to discounters or whatever which is again why you find/found this product at TJ Maxx or Marshall's.

You can always keep your eye on eBay or elsewhere for something that might turn up. That or make friends with someone in Europe that can run the stuff to ground and is willing to ship.

Finally when you see these sort of things on offer and at least like the scent I say just purchase the lot. Just either keep in mind return policies and what not. Get the stuff home and try it out at once. If you don't like the product return the unopened containers, use them for gifts, resell on eBay, etc.... Say this because normally sure as night follows day if you like the thing it will be long gone from shops and very hard to find elsewhere.

 

[jkbff]

I dunno, from what I smell of the soap, the fragrance that Mom likes is the Tea Tree.

Thats why I drop a bit of sol-u-mel in my laundry. To me, that is just as good, but she loves how her sheets feel and smell when she washes them with that particular detergent.

Mom has COPD and over various smoking-related illnesses.. It is very seldom that there is a fragrance she can tolerate. I think part of the reason she likes this detergent is she seems to breathe a bit better when she is resting when her sheets have been washed in it. Again, I think that is in part to the tea tree oil in the detergent.

Do you guys know of any detergents that are a deep cleaning detergent (dirty diapers come to mind) that has a tee tree fragrance, or essential oil/botanical makeup? I wished there were a way to transmit smells across the forum.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

No......but you may buy some Scent free detergent, and put some drops of tea tree essential oil/essence, have you ever thought about that?
They should sell it in herbal shops.....
You may also do a research of which essences helps your mom in breathing and you could add them to make blends of scents inside the detergent or add to the wash water if using powders...
Perhaps they could help her even in other istances, I could hear that infact as you mention, many people with enphysema and such finds comfort in aromatherapy and some smells relax their breath..
Having one of those essence burners hanging around home maybe would help to create a comfortable enviroinment to help her breath in the house...I do sometimes and I think it's a wonderful air freshner, also, if you get one of those egyptian mouth blown glass burners, they are also very beautiful to see and works as a particular fancy ornamentary complement....
Some people also add these oils to the water in radiator evaporators, or steamers in winter time to keep air moist....
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