No point in trying it now.Ĭheer is another detergent that seems to have numbered days. Maybe that was when the bottle changed from blue back to red? Oh well. To me Wisk was discontinued years and years ago.Īpparently at some point, perhaps after Henkel bought Sun, the quality was improved again. So I threw the bottle out and switched to Tide. I thought, well I'll just use it for cleaning rags. Then I looked at the label and saw that Unilever sold it to Sun, and I knew for sure it wasn't real Wisk anymore. Come to think of it, this liquid and its scent seem a little different. Then one day I noticed my white laundry was not as white. For me it was when Kellogg's discontinued their Great Harvest granola bars that had blueberry on the top.Īs for Wisk, back in the day I always used Wisk to keep white laundry snowy white. Post# 916417, Reply# 7 at 19:20 (2,389 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains) I haven't tried it because it has fewer enzymes than the other formulas. People who don't like the smell of Persil should try the Sensitive, which altho not unscented is not that strong. I only tried the 2-in-1 liquid - works really well, smells good (altho strong), but I'm not fond of liquids, so I dunno if I'll use it much. The megaperls work *really* well, but can only be used for whites and light colors, they'll leave bleached spots on colors if you use warm or hot washes, which I do. The pods are "meh, can take them or leave them, nice perfume but way too strong". I've tried the American versions of Persil. I noticed that lately they have their original formulas without enzymes and the new ones with enzymes (but not as many as TOL brands). It will be interesting to see if they keep all, Purex, or both. Still too sudsy and I think they cut down on enzymes, because it doesn't wash nearly as well as the 90's version, particularly when it came to stains. Over the last 10 years I've bought a bottle of liquid Wisk HE every few years to see if it got better, and the last one I bought was when they released the Unscented version. When they discontinued the powder and tablet I was basically left with powdered Tide HE if I wanted to buy American.Įven all became too sudsy in the 2000 and I had to give it up and buy Perwoll for stuff like silk and wool that can't be safely washed with enzymes. In any case, for about 10 years or so it was my favorite American detergent. The powders could be used in HE machines if you were measuring carefully. The liquid was OK-ish, but I never cared for it and the liquid Wisk HE was always too sudsy for me. I liked powdered Wisk from the time they introduced the "ultra" concentrated formula in the 90's until 2003 or so, when they discontinued both the powder and the tablets, both of which I liked and were almost as good as German Persil. (I bought Wisk frankly because it was cheapest passable choice that day.) I shudder to think of a world where the only detergent choices are Cheap, but Doesn't Work and Expensive, Works, But May Be Overkill. It makes sense for them-force people to upgrade to Persil-but there is a need and place for decent, budget detergent. I'm sort of worried that Henkel might pull the plug on their other cheap detergents that work. I think the list might be $5 locally, and i know I got my jug on sale for $3. I don't like the scent's strength (nothing unusual there-I hate how strongly scented detergents in general are these days), but it seems to do a reasonable job of cleaning. However, it has no real history for me, and there is nothing that really interests me, apart from "old name I recognize."īut.I've been using my first (and maybe last bottle-depending on how fast Wisk vanishes) jug, and have been mostly happy. I don't have much sentiment for the name-well, yes, it's an old name that I remember.
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