Who remembers Napisan?
The original product, so useful for soaking cloth nappies, pillowcases, white shirts, even t-shirts.
In my opinion it is NOT the same, and does not produce the brilliant whites I was once accustomed to.
I was disappointed. After a while it became the Vanish OxiAction pictured here, still available, and later we had, and still have, Vanish Gold.
If the product is so good why do they need to keep improving it? Is it because customers like me are disappointed with the results? to the point where they stop buying it?
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"New and Improved" -- the worst words any consumer can hear!
ReplyDeleteWhen we first moved to England, I found a container of Vanish in the cupboard and thought it was laundry soap. I used it alone on our wash for a couple of weeks and finally Dave said, "You know, I don't think that's really soap." Doh!
Steve Reed; you didn't read the label? Tsk Tsk. "New and Improved" never is.
DeleteLook up "napisan ingredients" on google.
ReplyDelete"History of Napisan - In the 1970s and 80s, the active ingredient in Napisan was potassium monopersulfate (KHSO5) which oxidises sodium chloride to sodium hypochlorite (chlorine bleach). The formulation has since changed, with sodium hypochlorite replaced with sodium percarbonate (oxygen bleach)"
You can still get potassium monopersulfate on Amazon.
Mike; thank you, but I'm not buying from Amazon. Their delivery fees to Australia are astronomical.
DeleteSigh. New and improved seems to be words about the manufacturer's profits rather than the product for the consumer.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; New and Improved is designed to fool those who aren't savvy enough to realise the power of advertising schtick.
DeleteNew to me but we have had that happen to other products. They keep fixing something that isn't broken. Doubt they will learn.
ReplyDeleteArkansas Patti; it's something they do to fool the consumer and keep our money flowing their way.
DeleteWell, as per Mike, it is a very different product now. We use it rarely, so I can't say I've noticed a difference.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; I bought some recently in an effort to whiten my old pillowcases that are yellow where I sweat in my sleep. It didn't work well enough to suit me. Next step is hot water and a yellow laundry soap bar, lots of scrubbing by hand. I could just buy new pillowcases, but they don't make them now in that lovely crisp cotton, everything is "soft feel" now.
DeleteI must confess that I do not remember Napisan. The word seems like a mixture of "nappy" and "sanitary" - something like that. "Shoap" could be for cleaning toilet bowls and "Pimpup" could be a cream for zits.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding; you are absolutely right. it was designed originally for soaking cloth nappies to remove stains and sanitise them. And it did a fantastic job, so we used it for other white things, school uniform shirts, white t-shirts, white sports shorts and pretty much everything else that was white.
DeleteNot products I'm familiar with. Here in the states we have OxiClean. I don't want to know how it works.
ReplyDeleteJoanne; it's probably the same product with a different name.
DeleteThere's nothing over here like plain Chlorox bleach for whitening laundry.
ReplyDeleteMany products simply don't work as they originally did. They claim to have improved them, or worse, that the formula has not changed when clearly it has. Whatever they claim, i'm not believing it until i've used the product for myself.
messymimi; plain bleach works fine for items that are plain cotton or polycotton, but for things with nylon, they just stay greyish even after soaking then washing in the machine. Elasticated sections of underwear for example. I have white bras, with grey elastic that was white when brand new.
DeleteI wonder if this product as it was originally formulated failed to meet evolving standards for safety or environmental reasons as time went by? I know that some older products were "improved" for those reasons and ended up not being as effective. Other products just seem to be changed on a whim, probably to be more profitable.
ReplyDeletejenny_o; I suspect it failed standards for environmental reasons, otherwise why change the ingredients. It's the same with so many other products, shampoos for instance, now contain "natural" ingredients instead of what they had originally, and for years since, my hair has not been happy.
DeleteHow interesting you posted about Napisan, used it all the time when my boys were babies, always had lovely white nappies and often used to put the nappies on the line ready for the frost on a winter's morning, they were really white then..
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; I remember hanging blindingly white nappies out in the sunshine, but never bothered putting them out for any frost, I didn't know that helped. We didn't get frost in QLD and Sydney anyway. Even now here in Adelaide I rarely see frost.
DeleteThe TV ad alone drives me NUTS! Any ad where men explain to women how it works, be it this, a washing machine, dishwasher-machine, you name it - as if we live in the 1950´s!!!
ReplyDeleteAs bad as a fox explaining how to wash your clothes (former GDR-product) - at least that might be addressed to men and women alike. But it´s so badly done I cannot buy the product, LOL.
The fox drives me mad. I don´t even know the product´s name (in fact I turn down the sound when ads are on, drives Ingo nuts).
Once I bought Vanish. It didn´t work or the ad-man didn´t explain it good enough for a stupid woman!
Iris; I haven't seen the ads you get there, so don't know about a fox, but that does seem ridiculous. And men explaining the machines to women as if the women aren't smart enough to work it out themselves? That's just stupid. How many very clever women do you know? I know plenty, including you.
DeleteThat´s the point. That fox is ugly and stupid and those men "explaining" likely never did the job themselves (let´s exclude Ingo).
DeleteOh, great. You know the meercat-ad for insurances? Saw that on channel 9 all the time in Perth. Gahhhh. That accent. Why take animals, and then not make them cute? And now we have a similar ad (years and years later).
P.S. I´m still at trying to get into Packstation. Hope I manage, will ask for help later (05:38 am here).
I hope at least Packstation can find it and send it to you.
DeleteP.S. NapiSan is sadly unknown here - sounds like it works better, though.
ReplyDeleteYou have many products that have not arrived here yet - and we speak of 2022!
P.S. #2 Usually Ingo cleans the toilet. Without instruction, of course ;-)
ReplyDeleteHe is my "Mr. Proper"!
Iris; no Napisan here anymore either, it's only Vanish available. Of course Ingo cleans without instruction, who needs instruction to clean a toilet? He's a good man.
DeleteThere is an instruction on the bottle ;-)
DeleteI never heard of it before..
ReplyDeleteyellowdoggranny; it's an old product, Napisan, from the 70s and 80s, but by the end of the 80s it was gone and replaced by the Vanish. You probably have a soaking/whitening product that does the same job, just with a different name.
DeleteI've never heard of it!
ReplyDeleteJenn Jilks; you probably have a similar product with a different name.
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