Thrill Dishwashing Liquid

[angus]

Here in the Northeast, Crystal White was known as Octagon. My mother liked that also because of the price. Then when we started getting Consumer Reports with their reports of the "real cost" of dishwashing liquids, she went back to Ivory Liquid, Lux, Dove and Ajax.

BTW, Peter, while Dove is no longer, it has been rebadged as Sunlight - but not the ultra formula and it is now a bargain brand..sigh

 

[launderess]

Peach Thrill and The Pixe

Thrill was my mom's brand and yes it did indeed come with a pixie doll (which at the time I thought was an elf), attached.

Kept that elf/pixie doll in my collection until it basically wore out from being played with so often.IIRC the head was plastic, and the stuffing was sawdust.

Bottle of Peach Thrill popped up on FleaBay several weeks ago, but got out of the bidding when it got crazy.

Launderess

 

[angus]

Veg - I think that bottle of "Vel Rosita" is for woolens and fine washables. That is what is sold at my WalMart. Sudsy, but works well. I guess you could use it on dishes...

I do remember that up until the mid - 80's you could buy Rose Lotion Vel dishwashing liquid. Actually it was a pretty good performer and I recall that CR rated it well for "real cost". I really liked the scent also. And of course it was pink.....

I also remember using Gentle Fels and I think it was blue.....

 

[david]

Now that was a very nice dishsoap

Rose lotion Vel-made by colgate-palmolive. Back in the 60's, I experimented around with different ones since we were without a dishwasher for a few years. I enjoyed the clean fragrance and the good results.

NOW- Does anyone remember Chiffon dish detergent? It was made by the makers of Dial soap. I liked it pretty well, it was gentle. Sail detergent from A&P was the strongest I ever used besides the old Joy sans lemon and Texise Texy

BTW- an earlier thread mentioned snipping off the end of the squirt top tube with scissors-I think they were about all like that until Palmolive hit the market with the pull up open-push down to close top. And testing your memories, guys and gals, can you remember dishsoap coming in metal cans rather than plastic bottles? I remember seeing Lux liquid in a bottle (plastic) for the first time in about 1961. Wisk detergent was in cans for years before they switched to a red plastic bottle. Clorox was in clear dark brown glass bottles. I did see the transition into plastic from these other materials. You scientists out there, was this some of the first use of HDPE (high density polyethylene)?

 

[petek]

Sail

I remember Sail from A&P, was in a red round plastic bottle wasn't it with the snip off top. We always shopped at A&P till the other stores came in. 8 oclock coffee and Jane Parker pies..

 

[david]

Don't forget Ann Page

My Mom was a A&P shopper extrordinaire. Absolutely no store could compare! A&P will always be dear to my heart as it was the tie that bound my mother and her sister. They didn't agree on much of anything ever, but both loved A&P. Thank God

 

[state-line]

I remember Thrill, too...

Hi...I'm new to this, so I hope it turns out OK! I was reading about memories of THRILL dish detergent. I remember that one well. As a youngster, my mom would squirt Thrill on mine and my brother's sliding board that had a small swimming pool at the end of it! As for when it was dropped, according to Procter & Gamble, it was dropped in 1978, along with Bonus Detergent, Salvo detergent tablets, and Ivory Flakes. As for what I'm using, I like DAWN, though I miss the regular creamy Ivory liquid, too. Palmolive seems to be a bit hard on the hands. And alas, Dove dishwashing liquid, for reasons that Unilever won't give, was dropped. And it smelled great....I wished the cleansing bar smelled like it!

 

[david]

Welcome State-line

Glad to have you here. Several of our members live in the Carolinas as you can see. Didn't Bonus have towels like Breeze did? Palmolive seemed a tad rough to me too. I have taken to washing with rubber gloves what little I hand wash.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Angus: Yes, I use "Rosita" for my fine hand-washables (!!), not dishes. Doesn't have much of a rose smell, but it does smell pretty good.

David: Funny you should mention Chiffon. I have a bottle of it on the shelf right next to the bottle of Swan! As for dishwashing liquid in cans, I have a can of Lux on my sink. (Can you tell I'm going for a retro theme in the kitchen?)

Mom generally used Ivory or Palmolive, with an occasional bottle of Trend if it was on sale. Currently, I'm using lime Joy which smells pretty good. I have ruby red grapefruit Ajax in the soap dispenser on the sink, and I'm liking that, too.

Hmmm. Now I'm hungry!

veg

 

[state-line]

Towels in detergent packages

Hi all and Thanks David for the nice welcome! Regarding towels packed in detergent boxes, yes, Breeze (A Lever Brothers Product) and Bonus (A P&G product) each packed towels in their detergents. What's more: another Lever detergent, Silver Dust, did that also. I remember my Mom buying Silver Dust by the case when I was small. She'd get these striped washcloths that came out of them. I never cared for the fragrance of Silver Dust, mostly because it smelled like cheap perfume!

Also, the Swan dish detergent you mentioned in an earlier post did indeed have an aqua color, and was called "Warm Water Swan", which was designed to give good cleaning without using hot water for dishwashing. And thank Heaven for rubber gloves!

 

[petek]

I hope they were Playtex Living Gloves!!!

 

[mrcleanjeans]

W-E-O!

I remember an ad campaign for A&P ---"WE-O, how A&P prices have
changed!"-----"Shop A&P WEO-Where economy originates!"Didn't last long,since economy didn't really originate from A&P, but I loved the store, as well as Red Owl, National, Del- Farm and other defunct stores.