Silva laundry products from Italy!

[bellalaundry]

I picked up these 3 Silva laundry soaps today. I've used different versions of these, but these are "formulas" the store didn't carry before. I've liked the scent before and they do a fine job cleaning!

I wonder if any of the Euro members have seen or used products from Silva before. Is it regarded well, or is a cheapie brand?

Guy

 

[bellalaundry]

Power Boy with Lavander!

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[bellalaundry]

And finally...

Champagne Bubbles (I think this is what it means translated)

 

[supersuds]

Spuma di Sciampagna

"Foam of Champagne" is how I have seen it translated by an Italian-American run website that sells the eponymous bath soap.

I've never used any of those. Here's a commercial for the Nero (I think). Pretty funny.

 

[launderess]

Spuma di Sciampagna

From Internet Soap Retail Site:

"Spuma di Sciampagna"

"The name of this well known Italian soap means "champagne foam". It originated in 1930's when Art Deco style reigned Europe in all aspects of everyday life and when champagne embodied the idea of luxury. The fragrance captures perfectly the very essence of champagne itself: clean, sharp and intoxicating. The Marseille soap (Sapone di Marsiglia) has a light citrus fragrance. "

Whole Foods carries the laundry liquid shown above, or at least they used to, don't know if they still do.

 

[favorit]

italsilva.com

Hi Guy,
Italsilva is one of the small italian competitors of corporates.
Spuma di Sciampagna and Bianco Puro are high end brands (prices close to Henkel/P&G/ReckittBenkiser), while Boy and K1 are discount store brands.

I use Spuma di Sciampagna shower foam as well as Nero Puro (pure black) and Bianco Puro Extrawhite. They have a nice scent of Marseille soap and clean well

http://www.italsilva.com/uk/prodotti/spumadisciampagna/bucato/

 

[favorit]

realchimica.com - Chante Clair

in the very same town of Silva (Seregno, north of Milan) there's also Realchimica who makes Chante Clair, that are in the very same segment market of Silva. These small producers have been so successfull that even big corporates started producing soap scented detergents

Their wool liquid is even better than Henkel Fe.Wa/Perwoll/Mirlaine/Perlana. I use it to "wetclean" on handwash cycle those garments labelled as dry clean only.

http://www.realchimica.com/UK/index.htm

 

[favorit]

Scala

Scala is another small producer. Their laundy products have always had a "green" (forest) scent.

http://www.decoindustrie.it/main/index.php?id_pag=109

 

[launderess]

Have never found yet a "Savon de Marseille" scented detergent that smelled like the real thing. Most use citronella oil, amoung other things for fragrance, which is not up my street.

One trick learned from France, is to simply grate up a bar of SdeM and add hot water, to make washing up liquid. By all accounts housewives all over France swear by using this for laundry, even in automatic washing machines.

Have a huge cache of various soaps (Savon de Marseille, Kirkman's Borax, Fel's Naphta (vintage Purex version, some older), P&G white laundry soap, and Sunlight laundry soap), usually have a baggie or two of something grated up lying about.

 

[favorit]

sometimes my sister uses it to wash delicate linen fabrics on permapress. Anyway she can, cause she has extremly soft water. She uses Spuma di Sciampagna soap flakes

 

[dj-gabriele]

DEXAL, from Italsilva, despite being a "cheap" detergent, was rated from Altroconsumo more effective than Henkel's Dixan and P&G "Ace" in cleaning ability, and I tried it myself, it's true! And has a nice soft smell that doesn't impregnate your clothes as other powders can do!