UK Budget Laundry Detergents with Phosphates!

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I was aimlessly surfing the Web and wondered about those "El Cheapo" detergents that are available in the UK supermarkets ("Daisy" soap powder); and the cheap, budget 'jack-of-all-trades' shops that sell "Easy" detergents.

Apparently, they are both made by PLP of Co. Durham.

What got me though, was the ingredients data list. There is no zeolite listed - instead, 'Ye Olde' Sodium Tripolyphosphate is a main component of the formulation.

I also read in one of PLP's 'Press Releases', that Jeyes (of Parozone fame) has recently purchased PLP for an undisclosed sum.

http://www.plp.co.uk/ingredients/ingredients/Easy Bio Laundry Powder180507.pdf

 

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"Jeyes "as in the

Jeyes Fluid cleaner of the 1920s?

It's mentioned in Dorothy L. Sayers' Murder Must Advertise, and I've wondered about it ever since.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

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Jeyes Fluid

Yes, that's the one. Also make 'Parozone' bleach; competitors to Lever's 'Domestos' bleach, and P&G's 'Vortex' bleach. Currently sponsoring "The Bill" (UK cop drama) on our ITV.

Here is the press release:

http://www.plp.co.uk/pop_up_pressrelease.html

 

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Jeyes Fluid

Here you are:

http://www.jeyes.co.uk/jeyesfluid.htm

 

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Jeyes

And again: