Hi group: after watching "The Lucy Show" First Season DVD, along with the VIM detergent ads, it made me wonder what everyone who's familiar with the product thought of it. Someone sent me some to try after they got a box from either EBAY or an estate sale. I actually liked it, mostly because it smelled nice, but I really couldn't tell my wash was any whiter. I wonder if Lever would ever consider reviving it?
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The Tablet Ship Has Sailed
Now that Lever has sold its US detergent brands to The Sun Corporation, it's very unlikely we'll see detergent tablets again. It wasn't that long ago when Lever, P&G and Purex came out with detergent tablets that were light years ahead of Vim and Salvo. But the buying public didn't go for them (Americans seem to resist detergents in pre-measured form) and they're no longer on the market. At least one book about Proctor says Salvo failed in part because they didn't dissolve completely; one woman reportedly complained the detergent wasn't getting her clothes clean. Chemists found out the woman was using the same Salvo tablet over and over in her wash. Little wonder her wash wasn't the whitest on the block!
Now that Lever has sold its US detergent brands to The Sun Corporation, it's very unlikely we'll see detergent tablets again. It wasn't that long ago when Lever, P&G and Purex came out with detergent tablets that were light years ahead of Vim and Salvo. But the buying public didn't go for them (Americans seem to resist detergents in pre-measured form) and they're no longer on the market. At least one book about Proctor says Salvo failed in part because they didn't dissolve completely; one woman reportedly complained the detergent wasn't getting her clothes clean. Chemists found out the woman was using the same Salvo tablet over and over in her wash. Little wonder her wash wasn't the whitest on the block!
Sequential Loads
Jeff,
There are times when this could conceivably happen, especially when washing loads that are not heavily soiled to begin with. An example is clothing worn to work in an office environment, when the most done to get anything dirty is sitting behind a desk in front of a computer all day. This is how it is at my house.
It is still very true what you said about load size and soil amount.
Jeff,
There are times when this could conceivably happen, especially when washing loads that are not heavily soiled to begin with. An example is clothing worn to work in an office environment, when the most done to get anything dirty is sitting behind a desk in front of a computer all day. This is how it is at my house.
It is still very true what you said about load size and soil amount.
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I remember Vim as small blue tablets. Salvo tablets were larger and also white.
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Action Bleach?
I remember Vim fondly. For some reason we only used it in our 1960 Solid Tub GE and the little blue Vim tablets would get right under that powerful little fill flume and suds up like mad! Salvo was low sudsing, by comparison. With Vim you had more flexibility, IIRC. Whereas one chose one or two Salvo tablets, the user would choose between 1-3 Vims.
And speaking of vintage pre-dosed laundry additives, does anyone also remember Action bleach? I was fascinated by the idea of those little plastic pouches that would dissolve in the wash sending streams of concentrated chlorine bleach to wreak havoc on whatever it touched first. Must have given drug mules ideas later on.
I remember Vim fondly. For some reason we only used it in our 1960 Solid Tub GE and the little blue Vim tablets would get right under that powerful little fill flume and suds up like mad! Salvo was low sudsing, by comparison. With Vim you had more flexibility, IIRC. Whereas one chose one or two Salvo tablets, the user would choose between 1-3 Vims.
And speaking of vintage pre-dosed laundry additives, does anyone also remember Action bleach? I was fascinated by the idea of those little plastic pouches that would dissolve in the wash sending streams of concentrated chlorine bleach to wreak havoc on whatever it touched first. Must have given drug mules ideas later on.
Action Bleach
My mother loved Action--but since I did the family laundry every week, I had problems with it.
1. I learned the hard way never to touch the packets with wet hands. Messy to clean up, but it didn't irritate the skin.
2. Many a box of Action came with at least a few broken packets, with the dry bleach powder landing at the bottom of the box and a half-filled packet not far from the scene.
3. More expensive to use than liquid bleach.
On the other hand, Action did smell better than chlorine, and the packets did do a good bleaching job. But resistance to pre-measured laundry products did them in.
My mother loved Action--but since I did the family laundry every week, I had problems with it.
1. I learned the hard way never to touch the packets with wet hands. Messy to clean up, but it didn't irritate the skin.
2. Many a box of Action came with at least a few broken packets, with the dry bleach powder landing at the bottom of the box and a half-filled packet not far from the scene.
3. More expensive to use than liquid bleach.
On the other hand, Action did smell better than chlorine, and the packets did do a good bleaching job. But resistance to pre-measured laundry products did them in.
Vim
I remember Vim. My mother used the 4 blue tablets which had a great smell and dissolved well too, not so Salvo. As I remember, it may have smelled a bit like the ALL of the day? Our Coronado automatic did a great job at cleaning and overflow rinsing;however, the spin cycle not only shook the machine to death finally, but the floor too. Gary
I remember Vim. My mother used the 4 blue tablets which had a great smell and dissolved well too, not so Salvo. As I remember, it may have smelled a bit like the ALL of the day? Our Coronado automatic did a great job at cleaning and overflow rinsing;however, the spin cycle not only shook the machine to death finally, but the floor too. Gary
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