What Happened to Zest Bath Soap?

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Hummm...
Yet another product I have used seems to have "gone away" over night. I have used Zest bath bars for 20+ years. I think the formula changed awhile back as they changed the shape and the smell wasn't quite the same, but it seemed to work just as well.
I was in our local Super Target the other day shopping, and NO Zest. NONE,ZILCH, and NO tags on the shelf for it either.
Remember the OLD commercials for it? It was supposed to rinse away clean AND leave no soap scum. Since I seem to have OCD when it comes to cleaning, that is why I first bought it.
Other products that I have used and have dissapeared are: Dash laundry detergent, Fresh Start (which I can still find at one store but heard Colgate sold it off, so I bet it will go away soon, plus it isn't as good as the "old" stuff), Blue Cheer, Favor High Shine furniture polish (I can still find this at one store and I stock up) it's soooooo much better than Pledge on old furniture. Leaves a high gloss, no oily build up and it doesn't streak.
And while I'm on a roll.... what about Scott and Viva paper towels? I use them to clean the kitchen. Now Viva leaves paper gunk behind and Scott falls apart.
I hate manufactures sometimes :(
 
So far no problem finding Zest on this side of the Rockies. I was in a bargain store called "Big Lots" the other night and saw a ton of Zest there so maybe that is a signal of things to come. Zest has regularly been one of the cheaper bar soap brands for quite some time and even Costco was selling it in packs of I think 8 bars but I haven't been buying as much Zest lately and so don't know if Costco still carries it.
 
Favor High Shine:

I agree- this is a product that should remain available. It's the closest in performance to Original Pledge, which is no longer made by Johnson Wax. All the Pledge formulations made today are far too oily for my preference, requiring beaucoup rubbing out to get a streak-free result. And they don't work on plastics; Original Pledge did a great job on them. Favor High Shine works about as well as Original Pledge did, so I'd really really hate to see it disappear.

P.S.: I'm also no fan of the mega-girly scents Pledge comes in today. Original Pledge had a very "purposeful" smell, pleasant but not obtrusive.
 
Zest

Still here in SoCal! We used Irish Spring and Coast growing up. My cousins in San Diego County used Zest Aqua bars. I LOVE the smell of Aqua Zest that I started to buy it for myself as soon as I was old enough to start working! It just reminds me of the beach and San Diego.

Now recently they changed the shape. No longer an oval/rectangular shape, Zest is now wider on each side and narrower in the center. I guess it's easier to hold onto. Less dropping the saop in the shower :( Marty
 
Woaahh...

I think I should try some Zest. (sigh)

Cute with a capital Q. those arms. yummy. :-p

The announcer did alot of commercials in the 80s.

(Ohh-my...)

 
I remember the commercials. They would have some hunky guy you wish you could shower with.

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Still Use Zest

I always use Zest; tried the other soaps but Zest has the best combination of lather, deodorant and moisturizer for me. Plus, it works well in our hard water.
The recent bar change does make the soap easier to hold onto in the shower--but it also "shaves" off some of the content, so the current bar is smaller than the one it replaced--less soap for more money. Shame, P&G!
Despite that, I'll still use Zest!
 
Chromacolor, I have noticed that Target is severely restricting the variety of consumer products that it stocks. Many of the smaller brands have disappeared from their shelves. I'd try a local grocery chain or drugstore before concluding that Zest is no longer available in your area.

Incidentally, the P&G website was saying a few weeks ago that Camay was no longer made, but it has just been introduced as a "new item" at a local grocery -- so you can't totally rely on the website.
 
Zest will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2008, there was an ad that played on our local station's 30th anniversary, with a '58 muscle boy taking a shower.
 
Irish Spring tends to get good overall reviews from Consumer Reports, largely because it cleans better than average, lasts long, and isn't overly drying to the skin.

I get very grimy hands (and arms, sometimes legs if I wear shorts) around the shop and garden. I would say that the best cleaning bar soap is just plain Ivory. Irish Spring comes in at second. Moisturizing bars like Zest, Dove, Lever 2000, third, but they are definitely kinder to the skin. Most of the time, lately, I use Irish Spring.
 
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In today's paper (9-30-07,)

The Walgreens insert in my paper offered Zest and other P&G bath bars. I don't know if Walgreens runs the same insert or specials nationwide, but worth a look, I think.

Incidentally, I was under the impression that Zest was not a soap, and was a detergent.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Shimmer

A floor wax and a dessert topping.

All soaps and detergents are surfactants, or contain surfactants.

Detergent is sort of a loose term, colloquially. Most people refer to the mixture of surfactant, builder, etc. as "detergent". A soap has both surfactant and builder qualities.
 

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