New UK Persil tablets - about time!

[newwave1]

Nick!!! Congratulations on the 3rd little one!! What have you named him!

I'm totally with you on this one. I really didn't want to have to succumb to using non-bio. I'm really pleased louies skin can tolerate ariel! As it's my fav! That and i'm so picky with rinsing!!

I've yet to try these new tablets. Interestingly my new zanussi doesn't let me go below 40 on cottons or synethetics! I have a 30mini wash. Something tells me electrolux aren't behind the turn below 40...let alone 30! lol!!

Thats a lovely clear rinse you got with that load!!!

May have to buy a pack just to try. Mother dearest has used Persil non bio since it came out!!! She buys huge boxes of it lol! I always remember it was a real effort for me to get a bottle of ariel liquid now and again lol!!

Darren

 

[superelectronic]

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

 

[spoodles]

I tried some of the new Surf at the weekend. I got the liquid and it's underwhelming to say the least. Cleaning isn't bad, but the new scents are nothing special at all. No lasting fragrance is left once dried either.

It seems like they've followed Bold's lead of claiming a fragrance is 'luxurious', therefore that justifies it being more expensive and in a smaller bottle.

I also saw the new Persil Naturals range that are supposed to match the Comfort Naturals range. Bizarrely, they don't smell anything like each other!