Ariel Powder

Several years ago the company that made the laundry powder that we preferred made a change in their formula and suddenly my clothes weren't getting as clean as I liked them to be. My husband found that Ariel powder was on special and decided to give it a go. The powder we get here is called "Ariel Ultra Clean Plus". According to our package, it is good for both white washes and coloured washes and can be used for hand washing as well. However, from the UK Ariel web-page (see below) I see that you have available to you a few different types of Ariel laundry powders. There is the regular Ariel, biological, colour & style, sensitive and ...  Read the complete review

************************** BACKGROUND ************************* Over nearly 34 years of married life I have used loads of different washing powders . Initially I had a twin - tub machine. At the time these were the bees knees and everybody used them . Looking back god were they a pain . We moved on like everyone else to an automatic machine and felt the shackles loosen a bit . Dramatic eh but sort of true. I have always swapped about with washing powders usually buying one from a reputable brand , but that was on the best pricing offer . Over the last few years I have found I cannot always use the cheapest . I don't know what ...  Read the complete review

Ariel Essential Recently, I received some money off coupons from Proctor and Gamble, the makers of my usual washing powder, Ariel Essential. Great! I thought. They had sent me £1 for a purchase in October, 50p for November and 50p for December. The good thing was that they had sent the same to my boyfriend too so that meant double savings for the next 3 months. Or so I thought! I marched down the soap powder aisle with £1 coupon in hand to be stopped dead in my tracks! My chin hit the floor! I had to rub my eyes because I did not believe what I was seeing. After several eye rubs I still could not ...  Read the complete review

I have used Ariel Color for quite a while now, ideal for when I'm sorting the washing into coloureds and whites. The ordinary Ariel has bleaching agents in which should whiten whites, but Ariel Color as it says, is just for coloured items. It worked great up until a few months ago. I found then that when I was removing coloured clothes from the washing machine, a couple had marks on them, that looked like they had been splashed with small amounts of bleach. The weeks went by, with the occasional odd mark, and I couldn't for the life of me make out why. Then one day I caught the tail end of an item on Watchdog and this very problem was being mentioned and ...  Read the complete review

I was doing my usual weekly shop in my local Safeway store the other day, and I noticed a bargain special offer. A 20 wash bag of Ariel Essential Alpine, for under £3. I get through mountains of washing powder each week with 2 kids, so I bought a bag to try. When I opened the bag I thought it had quite a strong smell, pretty similar to pine scented toilet cleaner, but I thought that maybe it would clam down in the wash, and the clothes wouldn't smell quite that strong. The few loads of washing that I did with the powder came out nice and clean but smelling VERY strongly of toilet cleaner. The smell is awful, I won't be using the powder again and ...  Read the complete review