soap detergents

[posiedon]

please please:

can anyone tell me the name of any old soap detergents, i can remember one called snowflakes, so pleas put me out of my misery.

[Baby Jane]

Rinso, and green block washing soap.

[dot.hawkes]

Omo, Tide, Persil has been around forever,

[posiedon]

RoaldoM

Thanx for that, i remember them, i was thinking of some bit earlier maybe the 1930s onwards, the reason i was asking is that my colleague and i were talking about posttiks and tubs, and for the life of me i couldn't think of any old soap detergents except for snowflakes

[dot.hawkes]

do you mean a Dolly Tub and Posser lol

http://www.fellpony.f9.co.uk/country/washday/w ashday.htm

well there was Dreft, but that was new in the 60s i think.

[pussnboots]

Oxydel....spelling suspect?

[pussnboots]

Made me think now posiedon....can you still get Vim and Ajax, it was a powder stuff in a long tin thing with holes in the top to shake it out.

[dot.hawkes]

It was Oxydol I think, you get Ajax still, not sure if in powder form,
http://www.the-extreme-clean.com/
http://www.unilever.ca/ourbrands/homecare/vim. asp
http://www.tinshop.co.uk/index.php4?keywordSea rch=soap%20powders&page=1

[spudqueen]

Acdo

[Baby Jane]

Fairy Snow

[heathfield]

At one time all washing powders were made from granulated soap (Persil) or shaved soap (Lux flakes). The only ones I know of that are still made that way are Dreft (powder) and Lux (flakes).

Back in those days, there were no liquid detergents, and dishes were washed using the like of Persil.

The first liquid detergent was Teepol. It's still being made on an industrial basis, and forms the basis of many washing-up liquids (and shampoos!). Squezy was the first available washing-up liquid, and Tide, if not the first, was one of the first, powdered detergents produced for washing clothes.

[Neutron]

As others have said, it seems Tide was the first,.
Proctor & Gamble were the manufacturers who began advertising on radio with short continuing dramas, hence the phrase Soap Opera was coined.
Judging by the awfulness of most of today's soap operas, they have a lot to answer for!

[Scylax]

That reminds me: it was once said that a
housewife was a stupid person who believed
that a miracle happened every washday.....

[TooBlessed]

Only Lux sprang to my mind posiedon.

Btw you can still get powder ajax - i just bought some the other day after wondering the same thing! But they were smaller than before. I'm not sure if it's a regional thing because it wasn't bought from a major supermarket chain.