Persil Persil Persil is a brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by Henkel around the world except in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Latin America (except Mexico), China, Australia and New Zealand, where it is manufactured and marketed by Unilever. Persil was introduced in 1907 by Henkel. It was the first commercially available "self-activated" laundry detergent. The name was derived from two of its original ingredients, sodium perborate and sodium silicate. The chore of washing the laundry began to change with the introduction of washing powders in the 1880s. These new products originally were simply pulverized soap. New cleaning product
Daz (detergent) TV and in a John Smith's advertising campaign featuring Peter Kay. From 1999 to 2002 Julian Clary was the face of Daz laundry detergent, one of the first of his advert campaigns being a "Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public" roadshow with Daz Tablets. Since 2002, Daz TV commercials are set in an outlandish "Cleaner Close" soap opera. Daz is available in powder (handwash and automatic), liquid and liquitabs (Go-Pods). Daz Go-Pods are branded as Tide Pods in the USA and Vizir Pods in Europe; on the back of the pods they bear the marking "Daz/Vizir/Tide" and they have the