superelectronic
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I thought Persil was supposed to be no-suds?
Saturday night was my first time. Yes, fellow laundry-lovers, I went out and bought my first box of Persil non-bio!
My reasoning in this first time purchase was its alleged inability to create suds - not a factor that usually concerns me and indeed something I find off-putting (I know they're unnecessary but we all have our vices), but with the prospect of having the nets down this week I thought it might be a sensible purchase. I had to veto the bio version on account of the perfume...a friend of mine uses it and there's a twang of staleness about it even since the last tweak.
So now I've tried it out on the shower curtains (they have a similar propensity to lather uncontrollably, hence my normal Ariel is out of the question - usually I use dishwasher liquid with so-so results) and was disappointed that it's still a bit sudsy and will not be all I'd hoped for the nets. Plus it's now got that same Persil non-bio perfume as used in the liquid, rather than the plain perfume of yesteryear one might expect in a non-bio...the perfume in my housemate's Tesco non-bio powder is far preferable but I'm not 100% how it performs since he insits on doing his washing at 1am Friday night/Saturday morning (his odd and misguided laundry habits don't end there: acrylic knitwear and good work trousers on 60C cottons, ALL whites plus a pair of jeans on boilwash the other week - a surefire case of washday blues...).
So all in all, not too impressed and now I have a whole box to use up. I only need it once a fortnight! Darn...
As to phasing out the tablet net, well...I'm not moved either way. My concern regarding nets is that if your machine has a static heating phase (my machine, whilst of 1995 vintage, has 1975 style programming), those tablets are sitting barely dissolved whist the heater is dealing with the hard water. And if you have a modern low-water level machine, won't they take ages to dissolve properly?
Call me old fashioned, but brown packaging for a laundry product (the new Surf) seems somehow misguided...more choco cereal/sauce than detergent. I know whiter than white is less of a concern than it was but this to me sends out the wrong signals!
For me, it's a thumbs down for Persil. The perceived respectability of the brand has always irked me too in an odd way. High suds for twin tubs and top loaders, on the other hand, is another matter entirely! If only I had the means to use it...
Alex
Saturday night was my first time. Yes, fellow laundry-lovers, I went out and bought my first box of Persil non-bio!
My reasoning in this first time purchase was its alleged inability to create suds - not a factor that usually concerns me and indeed something I find off-putting (I know they're unnecessary but we all have our vices), but with the prospect of having the nets down this week I thought it might be a sensible purchase. I had to veto the bio version on account of the perfume...a friend of mine uses it and there's a twang of staleness about it even since the last tweak.
So now I've tried it out on the shower curtains (they have a similar propensity to lather uncontrollably, hence my normal Ariel is out of the question - usually I use dishwasher liquid with so-so results) and was disappointed that it's still a bit sudsy and will not be all I'd hoped for the nets. Plus it's now got that same Persil non-bio perfume as used in the liquid, rather than the plain perfume of yesteryear one might expect in a non-bio...the perfume in my housemate's Tesco non-bio powder is far preferable but I'm not 100% how it performs since he insits on doing his washing at 1am Friday night/Saturday morning (his odd and misguided laundry habits don't end there: acrylic knitwear and good work trousers on 60C cottons, ALL whites plus a pair of jeans on boilwash the other week - a surefire case of washday blues...).
So all in all, not too impressed and now I have a whole box to use up. I only need it once a fortnight! Darn...
As to phasing out the tablet net, well...I'm not moved either way. My concern regarding nets is that if your machine has a static heating phase (my machine, whilst of 1995 vintage, has 1975 style programming), those tablets are sitting barely dissolved whist the heater is dealing with the hard water. And if you have a modern low-water level machine, won't they take ages to dissolve properly?
Call me old fashioned, but brown packaging for a laundry product (the new Surf) seems somehow misguided...more choco cereal/sauce than detergent. I know whiter than white is less of a concern than it was but this to me sends out the wrong signals!
For me, it's a thumbs down for Persil. The perceived respectability of the brand has always irked me too in an odd way. High suds for twin tubs and top loaders, on the other hand, is another matter entirely! If only I had the means to use it...
Alex
