Oxydol laundry soap

[rll70sman]

I'm sorry if my mind escapes me and there was a previous discussion on this. I purchased a box of the "new" powdered Oxydol Extreme Clean with Bleach tonight at one of the few grocery stores in the area that sells it. Who does or has used this laundry soap? Does it work as well as the old Procter & Gamble version? Laundry day isn't until Saturday so I'm curious....

 

[westingman123]

Well...

I cannot find powder Oxydol around here any more, but by the grace of our fellow members I ordered 2 cases of the liquid from Dollar Tree. I've never been a huge fan of liquid, but I must say it is pleasantly scented and works quite well.

 

[danemodsandy]

I Love It:

I like both the cleaning ability and the scent. The liquid is much easier to find than the powder, but then you have a wasteful plastic jug to deal with. If you end up with only liquid to choose from, the "Smells SOOOO Good" scent is very tolerable, but the "Bingo Bango Mango" is the usual overpowering fruity-flowery sort of thing I personally find sick-making.

 

[whitekingd]

I LOVE Oxydol powder!! I frequently buy it when I am near a store that carries it. Still a great product in my opinion.

 

[norgeway]

oxydol

You can still get it in Virginia, my partners mom won't use anything else,so they drive up to Va,and buy it a case at a time.

 

[washabear]

I tried the current Oxydol powder in my both my front and top loaders and liked it very much. I thought it cleaned well and didn't leave much of a scent in the clothes. I'm now using the Sears Ultra Plus Stain-Fighting Formula powder. It's OK, but I think the Oxydol was better. When I run out of the Sears, I'll probably get the Oxydol again if it's still available.

 

[gefilterflo]

I like it very much, too. It has a clean scent that is not overpowering and it cleans very well. You can buy it online from Meijer, but I'm fortunate enough to get it from my local grocery store.

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[supersuds]

My fave, too. I like the lack of a strong smell, along with the excellent cleaning and fairly low sudsing.

Information a few years ago was that P&G makes it under contract. I suspect it has the advanced oxygen bleaching system that Laundress has mentioned they use in Tide with Bleach and in Biz (also a Redox product).

 

[rll70sman]

Hey, I like!

I just pulled the white clothes, which I washed with the powdered Oxydol bought the other night, out of the wash machine. Wow! I'm impressed with how sparkling everything was, including my socks and T-shirts and the "new" vintage dish towels and double bed sheets. Old fabric like that seems to yellow over time, but the Oxydol brightened them right up--and all without that overpowering scent that most soap has now days! I guess I've found my new preferred brand!

 

[westingman123]

Thank you, filter flo!

I ordered a case today. Thanks for the link.

 

[qsd-dan]

Great pictures, keep them coming!!

 

[gefilterflo]

No problem!

 

[launderess]

Just A Word Regarding

Many laundry detergents sold today have greatly increased the amount of OBAs (optical brightening agents), to give the appearance of brighter laundry. This sometimes compensates for poor cleaning.

With phosphates long gone (at least in the USA), laundry being done at lower wash temperatures and less bleaching, something is needed to give the "whiter than white" results of old.

L.

 

[westingman123]

Oh, Laundress dear...

What the heck is an OBA? I know it's an acronym, but is it something bad; or just annoying because one is unsure if one's clothes are actually clean?

 

[jamiel]

Yeah, P&G is doing some interesting things with sourcing stuff. Currently they outsource all bar soap production (Ivory, Safeguard, Zest, Olay..) to an outfit that is called the St. Bernard Soap Company, which took over their original plant in Cincinnati. (If you're ever in Cincinnati, poke around Ivorydale....it's a very interesting time capsule of early 1900s chemical production plants). This lets St Bernard Soap do private labeling etc, because as liquids/bodywashes grow in popularity, bar soap was a bit of a declining business. P&G kept liquids and bodywashes to themselves (production fits very nicely in line with light duty (dishwashing) and heavy duty (laundry, Mr. Clean)...just like Colgate (Palmolive...Softsoap...)

I'd wonder, though if they would produce Oxydol....yes, yes I know Redox was the spin-off of a former P&G brand manager (just like LensCrafters was in the beginning) but I'd really wonder if P&G would let their premium technology out in a "bargain brand".

 

[kenmoreguy64]

I found some liquid Oxydol if anyone is interested

Dollar Tree has 28 and 32 ounce bottles of liguid Oxydol for $1. They wash 9 or 10 loads...Not a bad experiment for a buck. This is the only place I know of in the Charlotte area that stocks Oxydol, and I haven't seen it in grocery stores here since Redox came about. Back then the powdered formula smelled exactly like Tide with Bleach original.

If you have a Dollar Tree in your area, you may want to check it out!

Gordon

 

[kqkenmore]

Yeah, P&G is doing some interesting things with sourcing stu

How can you tell if a product from a major company is being out sourced.I think that Clorox is being outsourced and now this makes me think that a lot of P&G products are too.P&G says that they do not make anything for private labels.I do know that they sell excess inventory to be repackaged because a dollar store chain here in Memphis sold repackaged tide and Cheer that they had bought from a closing detergent plant.They put it in buckets and named it Ultra but it was not the ultra form so it did not work so I called the number on the back and they had told me what they had done and where it came from.So I guess that you can buy the store brand and get the same thing.

 

[supersuds]

Jamiel

"I'd really wonder if P&G would let their premium technology out in a 'bargain brand'."

I don't know. I want to emphasize I am just speculating based on how well Oxydol powder performs on my toughest laundry problems compared to Tide with Bleach.

However, Laundress's information, which I have no reason to doubt, was that Biz contains the advanced low-temp bleaching system. If they will let it be used in Biz there wouldn't be any reason not to let it be used in Oxydol.

Anyway, for me, Oxydol does what Tide with Bleach does, without all that SMELL. And it's a buck or two less!

 

[launderess]

Don't Know About The New "Biz"

But the vend size boxes from the crate of vintage stuff in my stash has numberous patent numbers, some of which pertain to perborate bleaching system developed by and for P&G.

Oxydol, again at least the original version contained perborate bleaching system, and probably was from the same or similar patents as both Biz and Oxydol were out around the same time. Only difference is the former was sold as a non-chlorine bleach/stain remover/pre-soaker, whereas the later was a detergent.

As P&G refined and improved their activated perborate bleaching system, these benefits were launched int "Tide with Bleach", and continued improving that product. TwB's activated bleaching system and enzyme brew was such a winning force that housewives found they no longer required a laundry pre-soak product,indeed to pre-soak at all. Should anything more be required TwB would do nicely, thus began the slow sales decline of Biz.

The fina bit is actually odd since Biz was then and remains the only "activated" oxygen bleach sold in the USA. Well that was until P&G recently launched the new Tide "In Wash" stain removal powders and liquids, which the powder at least is nothing more than oxygen bleach, bleach activator and IIRC,enzymes. Am more than willing to bet a search of patent numbers on the packets would reveal the chemistry is shared with TwB.