Talk:Tide (brand)/Archives/2013

Talk
This is quite a lame picture. uriah923(talk) 21:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Then take a better one. Be proactive or don't complain. Mike H. That's hot 02:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Advertising history
There is a Tide jingle, I believe from around '86-'87 that goes:

new Tide gets out the dingies, lots of stains that sat around other brands keep tryin' but they can let you down now colors that you once thought were long dead are bloomin' again, across your bed so - no, no, don't throw that shirt away goodbye to tough stains and whites that turn gray no nothin' cleans like new Tide can new Tide can make old look new again

There might be more, that's all I can recall from memory. Would like to know the full song and have a reference if possible, but unable to find. halfmoon 20:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Liquid formula dates?
When were liquid and "ultra" liquid Tide introduced? --68.103.154.11 00:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

What was Tide XK
I see a similar product on old commercials. Was this part of Tide. It looks exactly the same only no XK —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.143.230.8 (talk • contribs).

Tide Cold Water?
Is there any information on whether or not Tide and Tide Cold Water are similar/the same. Looking at the list of ingredients on both packages, I can't tell the difference between the formula. But then, I'm a writer and not a scientist. If this is true, however, it needs to be published, because a lot of people are falling for it (like the Dannon Activa thing).

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Tide to Go
Does anyone have information on Tide to Go stain-removing sticks? I can't find any info searching Wikipedia. Ost (talk) 16:56, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Can we add a section "Tide To Go" it could read.

Tide To Go is a product packaged in a pen-like format and intended to remove small stains on the spot and without further required laundering. Its directions indicate first removing what you can manually, then pressing the pen to release some product on the spot and rubbing it into the fabric using the pen's tip. JJ Bosch (talk) 09:16, 10 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Done. GenQuest (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Tide ingredients
A Celiac friend needs to know all potential Gluten containing products in her home. I have been trying to find out, from P&G if their TIDE with Downy - April Fresh, contains any Gluten. They refuse to tell me. Does that mean this product contains Gluten? Simple request - any help out there? Ukee111 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ukee111 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

This doesn't make sense here, even if there were gluten in tide.. According to this wiki's Coeliac_disease page Celiac is a reaction to ingested gluten. Regardless this question and issue might better be discussed in the Coeliac_disease page. JJ Bosch (talk) 09:01, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Tide in the UK
Does anyone know (definitively) if Tide was ever marketed and sold in the UK, and if so, when and why it stopped? I have searched and searched and can not find a conclusive answer to this question, although I have seen several reports of Brits claiming it was a popular brand in the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.40.220 (talk) 21:06, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

In Europe including UK, "Tide" is known as "Ariel". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.90.173.104 (talk) 22:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Opening (Summary) paragraph
The items contained in the opening paragraph were not redundant, they are salient points taken from the following sub-titled article, per Manual of Style -MoS. I am returning that paragraph to its form after my last edit (Revision as of 12:52, November 14, 2010). Thanks, RJ Boyce-GenQuest 00:41, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Nice job overall. I just did not think that the artist's name on the logo was salient. The article is not about artists or logos.  That was my main thing, aside from emphasizing that this article is mainly about US product. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

POV or advertising talk in Background section?
Some of words used in the Background section do not seem encyclopaedic to me: "chore of doing the laundry", "simply", "successes", "breakthrough", "proved there was a ready market", "better", "significant advances", "further revolutionized". I am not sure about this, which is why I have not made any changes to the article itself. What does anyone else think?FrankSier (talk) 23:24, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I recommend following your instincts and making the edits. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:19, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Sale in the U.K.
I remember this being around in U.K. stores in the 70s when I was a kid. I haven't seen it for ages and notice it's no longer sold over here. When did P&G cease retailing it in the U.K.? Martyn Smith (talk) 22:31, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Tide Urban Legends
I heard that Tide was so strong that, over time, rubber components in washing machines would be degraded and eventually cause the machine to break. --68.103.154.11 00:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Sounds like an urban legend to me! Atlant 11:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC) (Long-term Tide user)

i want to know about the tides marketing strategies —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.99.0.138 (talk) 13:37, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * One persistent urban legend which I can't find verifiable references for yet is that Tide was reformulated in the early 1970s because its detergent compounds were as good or better than the stearate/palmitate compounds used to make napalm (a very lethal incendiary bomb filling used from World War II to the present by the US Armed Forces and other national militaries), and some domestic terrorists were using it to actually make a home-brew form of napalm. If I have time, I'm going to research that a little better. loupgarous (talk) 05:02, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

g-tide
nice phone