Old Formula Detergents

[zanussi_lover]

Who remembers this British detergent Ariel ads from the early 1990s?? I remember seeing it on t.v when i was 5 (1993) Jeff Banks looks so young there! lol, I miss Ariel adverts when they were like that.

The music is so funky, typical 1990's, people look so colourful, i love the catchy saying,

"Being Ariel Color its great for colours, pretreat stains without washing away color"

Here is a link with many old adverts on them

1993 Ariel Color liquid ad
1990 Bounce Dryer sheet ad
1990 Daz Liquid Ad
1991 Lenor Advert
1991 Radion Micro Ad (remember radion people 1989-1999)

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1991 Radion Advert

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1990 Bounce dryer sheet ad, 1990 Daz liquid ad, 1991 Lenor Ad

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1993 Ariel liquid advert

some adverts play using windows media player but some run on real player so if you don't have real player you will have to download it

Hope you like the ads guys so you can look back and see what british detergents and additives were like in the 1990's

I really miss Ariel Ultra and Ariel Futur, they were really really good as you only needed a small dose as it was concentrated, it cleaned and sudsed loads, also i can remember when P&G used to put concentrated ultra detergent in bags and you could could get an metal tin to put your detergent in. Ariel and Fairy did them.

Ariel Tablets don't smell as nice as the original ones which were greeny blue on one side and white on the otherside launched in June 1999-2003, they had the traditional ariel smell to them, that smelt exactly like the powder, Ariel Alpine smelt lovely too, i was a bit angry when they discontinued it, (i used to use the powder and the tablets), as my clothes smelt wonderful!! like my clothes were hung in an unpolluted piney forest!! I have to use ariel colour & style powder (purple box) as it is the same smell as the green box ariel bio powder before it was reformulated with big blue grains in it, the new one smells really strong and its really sickly scent which , i'm allergic to it as a matter a fact, it makes me itch. The old ariel bio powder with the swirly logo above the ariel sign (old packaging) used to clean really well and had a nice fresh grassy scent, but when they reformulated it they wrecked the scent as i can't even use my lenor with it without the sickly ariel smell dominating the softener smell.

Isn't it a shame that you find a detergent you like and stick to it and then they change the formulation to make it better,and then you can't use it because it makes you itch.

I can remember going to see my stepbrother james and he used daz in his Hotpoint 9530 Electronic 1000 plus, with the old packaging and it had a really nice strong fresh smell to it, and it cleaned really well from what i remember on a 40 degree wash. the whites were amazing. I bought some new daz the other day and was disappointed that the new packaging daz couldn't get stains out on a 40 degree wash. in fact my whites weren't white enough to pass the classic daz doorstep challenge.

Who remembers Ariel Alpine and wants to bring it back!!

also lenor, who can remember Lenor bringing out Oriental Blossom and Alpine Spirit and Clear Dawn, My mum used to use lenor as a child and i used to love the smell of these fragrances they were so comforting, lenor in the pink doesn't even come close to oriental blossom. lol

Kyle ---

 

[zanussi_lover]

Ariel tablets

Here is the pic of the old ariel tablets that i used to use before they changed the formula and scent with quickwash action tabs lol!!

 

[sadose]

i loved ariel alpine too. and i had forgotten about Radion...my mother used radion in her 1979 hoover A3060 electronic 1100 and it always choked the pump (but the machine had seen better days anyway) brought back some fond memories there!

 

[nickuk]

Detergents

Thanks for the interesting thread, Zanussi Lover. I've been reading all about your Zanussi aswell. I have a two year old Zanussi Jetsystem and am very pleased with it. The most original thing it does is on cottons, it revolves at distribute speed while the rinse water fills up. Then half way through each rinse the tumble action doubles in speed...

In terms of detergents, I am firmly in the Unilever camp. I love the scent of Daz tablets and Ariel tablets and sometimes use them, but I find that they don't wash stains out as well as Persil and they are far harder to clear rinse. Persil tablets are my preferred detergent. I like all three main formats, but don't think much of the gel tabs overall. In terms of softener I think that concentrate Lenor is superb for softening, but the only scent I can tolerate is Summer Breeze. I prefer the Comfort scents and usually use the `Pure' one. I like most of them though.

I agree with you that it's a shame when detegent makers change formulation and I don't like new Ariel powder scent. To me, the Ariel bio tabs still smell the same as old Ariel powder which I liked.

Sorry for the brief post I'd love to chat more but I need to go and research buying a new Hoover. Sorry, Vacuum cleaner. Any thoughts on this? I'll post a new thread!

Nick

 

[zanussi_lover]

Hey, i'm using ariel colour powder at the moment, as i find its really good on whites even tho its advertised as a colour powder, I agree, lenor summer breeze does smell lovely, in fact i'm using it at the moment, I'm also using Surf Breeze washing powder, my favourite unilever detergent next to persil tablets, as well as comfort blue as it has a fresh linen smell very familiar with doing laundry, I remember my auntie using it with her daz washing powder in her bendix lol. I like daz washing powder too but i tried the tablets with the new packaging and my whites got dyed light blue lol, i was a bit disappointed when daz updated their product as old daz smelt sooo nice, nice enough to use it without softner.

sadly all good things must come to an end!!!

Kyle

 

[nickuk]

Hi there....there's no reason why a `colour' detergent won't be ok for whites, especially if you wash whites by themselves. Only problem is, the colour detergent won't remove bleachable stains like coffee and tea (no perborate bleach in it) and it won't make your whites whiter then white (no brightener). An excellent product to keep on hand is `Napisan' (Boots / Tesco / Chemist etc), use a couple of spoons with a colour detergent to make it, in effect, a whites detergent. It doesn't alter the smell of the detergent, so is excellent if you want to use one product for all.

I am told that Daz has `blueing' agents in it which I think is what you're describing. You either like it or you don't - you clearly don't! It's a cultural thing. In other parts of the world, whites detergent makes them look a little bit red because that's what is culturally `normal' and liked.

I like Surf and am quite pleased the scents are quite similar to the Surf of old. To me, Breeze is just plain old Surf, Sunshine has many lemony aspects like the old yellow one......but tropical, well that's a different story. It smells like a Shampoo made by Scharzkopf in the 80s called `Once'. Lush!

Nick

 

[foraloysius]

Daz indeed has bluing agents in it. I have a box of Daz Handwash & Twin-Tub and the amount of bluing agent is way too much. My whites got blue too.