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
Household Words Evans, publication ceased and "Household Words" was replaced by "All the Year Round", in which he had greater control. The journal contained a mixture of fiction and nonfiction. A large amount of the non-fiction dealt with the social issues of the time. Prominent works that were serialised in "Household Words" include: Dickens also collaborated with other staff writers on a number of Christmas stories and plays for seasonal issues of the magazine. These included: Other contributors to "Household Words" included author James Payn. A complete key to who wrote what and for how much in "Household Words" was compiled in