While an interesting idea, I have no idea if this box really worked properly. Does anyone ever remember seeing this detergent? ...
Self Measuring Way Detergent
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Never saw the product or a similar package for powder, but have seen bottles that were supposed to meter out a preset amount, but they were not for detergent.
No, but it's something else to look for!
I wonder if the big manufacturers concluded that the self-measuring market couldn't be served more economically by tablet products such as Salvo, Vim, and smaller imitators. You can imagine the type of impatient customer who doesn't read or follow directions getting impatient with having to shake the package,and even then maybe not getting as much product as she wanted.
I wonder if the big manufacturers concluded that the self-measuring market couldn't be served more economically by tablet products such as Salvo, Vim, and smaller imitators. You can imagine the type of impatient customer who doesn't read or follow directions getting impatient with having to shake the package,and even then maybe not getting as much product as she wanted.
kenmoreguy89
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Never saw that for powders, honestly by looking at it, I have hard times to see this always "working" properly.....
Though I have seen these for liquid detergents and softeners.... they didn't have much success also...
Currently, there's a floor detergent from Sutter company that re-proposed this auto dosing bottles (that you may anyway see in some commercial/janitorial products) you'd push the bottle and the little chamber would fill to the line corresponding to the liters of water you have to diluite it in... this thanks to a pipe located near the handle...
Also the same company along with the auto dosing bottles made kinds of ultra concentrated liquid refills in a soluble film, you'd just drop them in the bottle, add water and shake..... they should be more economic according to them....
I have tried them, and didn't find it to be as effective as the normal un-diluited liquid, by the way that is not even my favourite brand, which is either Ajax, Spic&Span and Mr Clean, but the refill result it's just not the same thing....like BTW it was for softeners back in the days when refills to diluite were very common..now they are all super concentrated meant to be used pure, more fluid.... though they just don't give the same of the big jugs, though they made them cheaper than what refills were once which is good....I remember the old Milk-like cartons from Downy/Lenor and it was very thick, but if you watered as directed what you got was not the same....
As for the safe measuring bottles, I am not a big fan..I just don't care.. I would just pour it from the bottle as I know how much it's needed and I can kind of eye meter it.... even without having to dose it,...I just find it's easier....of course one need to be practic about it...
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Though I have seen these for liquid detergents and softeners.... they didn't have much success also...
Currently, there's a floor detergent from Sutter company that re-proposed this auto dosing bottles (that you may anyway see in some commercial/janitorial products) you'd push the bottle and the little chamber would fill to the line corresponding to the liters of water you have to diluite it in... this thanks to a pipe located near the handle...
Also the same company along with the auto dosing bottles made kinds of ultra concentrated liquid refills in a soluble film, you'd just drop them in the bottle, add water and shake..... they should be more economic according to them....
I have tried them, and didn't find it to be as effective as the normal un-diluited liquid, by the way that is not even my favourite brand, which is either Ajax, Spic&Span and Mr Clean, but the refill result it's just not the same thing....like BTW it was for softeners back in the days when refills to diluite were very common..now they are all super concentrated meant to be used pure, more fluid.... though they just don't give the same of the big jugs, though they made them cheaper than what refills were once which is good....I remember the old Milk-like cartons from Downy/Lenor and it was very thick, but if you watered as directed what you got was not the same....
As for the safe measuring bottles, I am not a big fan..I just don't care.. I would just pour it from the bottle as I know how much it's needed and I can kind of eye meter it.... even without having to dose it,...I just find it's easier....of course one need to be practic about it...
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Miele sells these self measuring detergent containers over here.
Never seen it before either but it is quite interesting. A product designed to make life simpler that also entails a simple learning curve for a mundane product isn't likely to survive imo. Maybe that's why it never got anywhere. Fast forward to today and the need to cut shipping and production costs down even fractions of a cent per unit and it probably a no go. Maybe for a premium brand in a particular lineup to set it apart.
I believe Jon has something similar up his (boxer's) sleeves for Rosalie's...
Gosh, this kind of "dispenser" is available here probably since before President Reagan auditioned for his first role as an actor.
And the design never changed, except by a small depression to make it more ergonomical for women with small hands that was included on late 60's and it was changed from tin to plastic on mid 80's.
It looks like a regular box but there's a second wall inside. This "wall" has premarked tabs so the consumer can break them to increase the volume on each dose.
Probably 9 every 10 homes in Brazil have one of those.
By the way, prices on this website are too high. The dispensing box costs no more than 5 Reais on any supermarket or hardware store. and can also be found on "dollar stores".
Most of the times, it's sold as part of a kit that includes a clothespin basket with hangers to hang it on the line and 12 plastic clothespins.
And the design never changed, except by a small depression to make it more ergonomical for women with small hands that was included on late 60's and it was changed from tin to plastic on mid 80's.
It looks like a regular box but there's a second wall inside. This "wall" has premarked tabs so the consumer can break them to increase the volume on each dose.
Probably 9 every 10 homes in Brazil have one of those.
By the way, prices on this website are too high. The dispensing box costs no more than 5 Reais on any supermarket or hardware store. and can also be found on "dollar stores".
Most of the times, it's sold as part of a kit that includes a clothespin basket with hangers to hang it on the line and 12 plastic clothespins.
whirlcool
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I wonder if the product was just test marketed in the Greater New York area and did it ever achieve national release? I've never heard of Way detergent or that kind of box before.
arbilab
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Scroll to the bottom for other recent additions like:
Breakfast cereals packaged up to 48% below advertised weight. FTC sorted that. Which is when "box is filled by weight not volume" started appearing on all loose-fill packages.
Electrified trains for the US. Which except for specialized applications like commuter rail, never happened.
And my favorite, Ipana toothpaste. That stuff tasted GREAT! Wintergreen I think. A candy that was GOOD for your teeth (yes I ate it). For 50 points, name the cartoon commercial spokescharacter for Ipana. (Doesn't count if you google it.)
Breakfast cereals packaged up to 48% below advertised weight. FTC sorted that. Which is when "box is filled by weight not volume" started appearing on all loose-fill packages.
Electrified trains for the US. Which except for specialized applications like commuter rail, never happened.
And my favorite, Ipana toothpaste. That stuff tasted GREAT! Wintergreen I think. A candy that was GOOD for your teeth (yes I ate it). For 50 points, name the cartoon commercial spokescharacter for Ipana. (Doesn't count if you google it.)
angus
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I promise I didn't google it, but I believe the cartoon character was "Bucky Beaver", basically a buck toothed beaver. Who better to showcase Ipana's whitening ability???
arbilab
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You win.
Ipana dates from the early 20th century. But about the time this unique/advanced dispenser came out, Bristol-Meyers was losing interest in consumer commodities. They did not put fluoride-- the latest toothpaste marketing buzz-- into Ipana. But IINM, into Brisk in a conventional tube. Which also tasted good but I did NOT eat it. Even at 11yo I knew fluoride was toxic. They shortly abandoned Brisk to the competition, Crest which survives today as a panoply/suite of products rivaling the versions of Tide.
Ipana dates from the early 20th century. But about the time this unique/advanced dispenser came out, Bristol-Meyers was losing interest in consumer commodities. They did not put fluoride-- the latest toothpaste marketing buzz-- into Ipana. But IINM, into Brisk in a conventional tube. Which also tasted good but I did NOT eat it. Even at 11yo I knew fluoride was toxic. They shortly abandoned Brisk to the competition, Crest which survives today as a panoply/suite of products rivaling the versions of Tide.
anyone remember Colgate toothpaste coming in a dispenser can, sort of like a short shaving cream can... It didn't come out like foam though,, just like regular toothpaste.
It was a loooong time ago.. when I was little,, around 1960 ish... Mom only bought it once... probably because it cost more than the tubes, who knows.
It was a loooong time ago.. when I was little,, around 1960 ish... Mom only bought it once... probably because it cost more than the tubes, who knows.
I remember that Colgate dispenser vaguely. When it got towards empty it just oozed out. I think it only had Gardol not the more up to date MFP fluoride & luckily that's what we usually got.
Ipana (which autocorrects to "piranha") did have flouride at some point. I found a old tube of it at a hole in the wall drugstore once. They also had some Kolynos, another forgotten brand.
Ipana (which autocorrects to "piranha") did have flouride at some point. I found a old tube of it at a hole in the wall drugstore once. They also had some Kolynos, another forgotten brand.
kenmoreguy89
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Over here they still make the toothpastes in pump dispensers, Aquafresh and Colgate for the most, but in larger stores you also find other minor brands and also store brand.
They're more expensive and just don't sell as the regular tubes (That i find being better for many reasons anyway), though it was/is more common to have them among the children toothpastes, again not all nor even the most...
At elementary school as well as kindergarten I remember some kids had that kind of tubes....this was to avoid them to splash the toothpaste on themselves as they washed their teeth alone, some still had to learn how to squeeze out properly and or were just a muddler type of kid (kids are also generally muddlers)... so their mothers preferred to give it to them instead of the normal..... it was supposed to be easier and "fool-proof"... but some just messed with it anyway and would come home with a beautiful bluish decor on their tees the same....LOL
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They're more expensive and just don't sell as the regular tubes (That i find being better for many reasons anyway), though it was/is more common to have them among the children toothpastes, again not all nor even the most...
At elementary school as well as kindergarten I remember some kids had that kind of tubes....this was to avoid them to splash the toothpaste on themselves as they washed their teeth alone, some still had to learn how to squeeze out properly and or were just a muddler type of kid (kids are also generally muddlers)... so their mothers preferred to give it to them instead of the normal..... it was supposed to be easier and "fool-proof"... but some just messed with it anyway and would come home with a beautiful bluish decor on their tees the same....LOL
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I could see a problem with the self-measuring powder detergent technology in the all too frequent case of clumping of the powder. Then the frustrated consumer would be tempted to rip open the top of the box to get at the rest of the product.
But I enjoyed the box making copy. My father used to work in a box factory. We always had plenty of white cardboard stock at home to play with, making all sorts of stuff for cheap toys.
But I enjoyed the box making copy. My father used to work in a box factory. We always had plenty of white cardboard stock at home to play with, making all sorts of stuff for cheap toys.
Freddie, the product we're talking about isn't a typical pump like we have now; it was actually an aerosol can.
kenmoreguy89
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Oh... I didn't realize it...my bad.
Anyway, the pump like mechanism didn't caught on the same way, similar in the way it worked I assume, it's like a pressure can actually, the pressure is just reached thanks to the spring pushing it up rather than a siphon and air pressure...
Here is an interesting read on what are the general views about them: http://ask.metafilter.com/165421/Why-didnt-pump-toothpaste-catch-on
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Anyway, the pump like mechanism didn't caught on the same way, similar in the way it worked I assume, it's like a pressure can actually, the pressure is just reached thanks to the spring pushing it up rather than a siphon and air pressure...
Here is an interesting read on what are the general views about them: http://ask.metafilter.com/165421/Why-didnt-pump-toothpaste-catch-on
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Yep
That's the Colgate can I remember in the ad.
That's the Colgate can I remember in the ad.
