Vintage Laundry Soaps/Liquids

[sudsdudeshane]

Does anyone care to share their favorite Vintage Laundry Detergents?

Mine is Cold Power and the original formula of Cheer, back when the powder was blue!
I miss the old scents, everything now is too over the top and fragranced.

Right now I am using Tide Powder, original scent. It cleans awesome!

 

[tlee618]

One that I remember was called "Fluffy All" It had such a wonderful clean scent. This dates back to the mid to late 50's does anyone else remember it. I would love to find a box of this sometime. Terry

 

[whirlcool]

I always liked the scent of "Drive" back in the 70's.

 

[pekedogs]

I remember Fluffy All. It came in a red box instead of the regular blue box. I loved the smell of regular All. It had little crystals of something or other.

 

[sudsman]

sents

loved the old Oxydol from the 63 era also all ,todays fragrances seem to me like just cover ups not really clean like yesterday. sudsman.

 

[Kenmore62]

HI
I USED SALVO TABLETS

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[gyrafoam]

Fluffy All----

In the "red" box. That is what my Mom switched to after choking our Unimatic to death with Tide.
The Multimatic replacement lasted for years and years.
The fragrance of that All was wonderful. I never did understand the difference between the regular All. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[gadgetgary]

Can you remember?????

A detergent with 'Hazel' on the box?

It was a tall skinny box.

Recall the brand?

 

[tlee618]

Patrick and Steve I am glad that you remember Fluffy All as well. I too always wondered what the difference was between regular All and Fluffy All. It sure had a great scent and I can remember the wonderful smell in the basement after wash-day. Terry

 

[cleanteamofny]

My favorite was Oxydol, Tide and Bold II!

 

[cehalstead]

all

If I remember correctly, the difference between Fluffy All and regular All was that regular All was concentrated and very low-sudsing and Fluffy All was the one cup per load formula and made more suds, but not nearly as many as Tide at that time.

 

[polkanut]

My Mom used Salvo tablets too. She would let me drop them in the hot water, it was so fun to watch the tablet dissolve. Also miss Blu-White and LaFrance.

 

[MikeS]

I did the wash when I was a boy, but Mom chose the detergents. That meant Ajax (loved the smell); Bold; Punch; Drive and Cheer. Never a box of Tide in the home--too sudsy for the Kenmore 800. Of course, I kept everything bright with bleach (Action chlorine packets or Miracle White all-fabric) and fresh with a dash of Final Touch in the last rinse.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Gare, I think the detergent with Hazel on the box was "Burst."

veg

 

[coldspot66]

The 1st season of Hazel is out on DVD.....1961 in glorious black & white...........except 1 episode in color. Most of the story line on the color episode is about buying a color tv...interesting. The refrig is a 1961 RCA Whirlpool gas refrig. In one of the episodes there is a floor shot near the refrig, and you can see the little blue flame that W/P used to designate gas.

 

[abcomatic]

I remember mom using the following in the 50's: Oxydol, Rinso Blue, American Family detergent, not the soap flakes which were awful in hard water,(talk about soap scum) and if she needed a cheap dishtowel, Breeze. We didn't have an automatic until '63. We lived on the farm and had salt water piped into the house (who's idea was that)it ate everything up including the wringer washers we had. Dad always bought used ones which were: my grandmother's Maytag grey ghost, ate the agitator right into. lol Thor, (a piece of junk),Montgomery Wards, and Speed Queen. We also used NuSoft in the glass bottle, Little Boy Blue, bluing and Cholrox in the dark brown glass bottle. With the modern Tide scent that says "original scent" , where did that come from? That isn't the scent from the 50's or 60's. Sure wish we had some of the extinct brands now. Gary

 

[MikeS]

Color

I remember the first season "Hazel" episode in color. It wasn't a big surprise. "Hazel" aired (for its first four seasons) on NBC, whose parent back then was RCA, which spent millions on color TV development and wanted to get people buying color sets. So the episode revolved around buying a color set (I think at least some of the sets in the showroom scene were RCA) and everyone was going to Hazel's bedroom to watch Perry Como (also on NBC) in living color. If I recall (and you can correct me if I'm wrong), the Baxters had a Zenith B&W console in their living room with remote, before they gave in and bought a color set. And now, all together....
"The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC!"

 

[Unimatic1140]

Just Give Me Two

Vintage Tide in the Top Loaders and Vintage Dash in the Front Loaders.

 

[peterh770]

Mom nearly exclusively used ALL and Instant Fels until Era was introduced (YUK! GAG!).

The two that stand out most to me are Oxydol, Dash and Punch. I wish those scents would come back.