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Millennials blamed for the falling sales of fabric softener... because 'they don't know what......
dailymail.uk ^ | December 19, 2016 | Dailymail.com Reporter

Posted on 12/19/2016 10:48:40 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Millennials blamed for the falling sales of fabric softener... because 'they don't know what it is for'

Millennials are being blamed for falling sales of fabric softener because 'they don't know what it is for.'

Sales of the product have been falling for past ten years and Procter & Gamble believes the next generation is to blame.

The consumer goods giant, which produces Downy and Gain fabric softener, says it saw sales of its own products decrease by 26 per cent.

Shailesh Jejurikar, Procter & Gamble's head of global fabric care, told the Washington Post that most millennials 'don't know what the product is for.'

Millennials are also more likely to be concerned about the environment than other generations and may be choosing to avoid fabric softener over concerns that the chemicals in them could be harmful to humans and marine life.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: care; clothes; fabricsoftener; garments; millennials; sartorial; snowflakes
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To: COBOL2Java

It wouldn’t surprise me if they also serve on the boards, but this was a much much lower level decision. Come to think about it, this may have been from the board as an explanation why sales are crashing across the board. Don’t forget to pick up your 40 cents an ounce herbal infused Downy at your local big box store.


81 posted on 12/20/2016 9:35:36 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Yaelle; Ellendra

My daughter taught me a trick to reduce stains. After removing the garment, put dishsoap on the stained area, and rub it into the fabric. Rinse it out. If needed, repeat the process. If you don’t have a load to go with it, let it dry, and wash it with the next load.

This has worked for spaghetti sauce and chocolate, so far.


82 posted on 12/20/2016 11:50:55 AM PST by knittnmom
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To: T-Bone Texan

The toxins get right into your blood stream through the skin. Best to avoid them.


83 posted on 12/20/2016 1:14:44 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: wardaddy; Yaelle; Morgana

How about vinegar as a fabric softener?

Mrs Wardaddy sure struck some kind of sweet deal


84 posted on 12/20/2016 3:03:54 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: Pelham

I tend to be up late

And I’m more anal about it piling up


85 posted on 12/20/2016 3:22:27 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Morgana

I tend to avoid fabric softener because I don’t like the smell. Plain white vinegar works just as well and doesn’t stink.


86 posted on 12/20/2016 3:33:59 PM PST by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: donna
Those new washing machines with no agitators don’t use enough water to use softener.

And if a top loader, they don't clean clothes, either. Stupid product.

87 posted on 12/20/2016 4:03:11 PM PST by polymuser (There's a big basket of deportables.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

“...Never could understand why people use that gooey, sticky, smelly junk on their clean clothes.”

Ditto. The smell reminds me of old ladies who don’t bathe because they’re afraid of falling in the tub, so instead they just keep piling on the cologne and talcum powder. The result is a sickly perfumy smell that makes me want to gag. There’s a moldy undertone, like an opened grave.
I like my clothes and linens clean and crisp, not limp and sickly sweet.


88 posted on 12/20/2016 4:13:09 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: wardaddy

I’m hardly one to talk being a laundry expert myself


89 posted on 12/20/2016 4:16:36 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: Morgana
Somebody's gonna get fired for this.


90 posted on 12/20/2016 4:33:29 PM PST by x
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To: wardaddy

Ditch the Downy but you are awesome. My two older sons do their own laundry too, since about age 13-14.

Did you see my mention of you yesterday? Let me find it...

Post 192
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3506279/posts?q=1&;page=151


91 posted on 12/20/2016 7:41:59 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle; Blue Jays; Secret Agent Man; wardaddy

Someone once told me this, don’t know if it’s true but will pass it on.

Around here we get an insect called “stinkbugs” don’t know their scientific name. While at the Laundry Mat someone said Fabric Softener repels them. They said “use a lot on your curtains in the fall it helps”. Many of us had taken our curtains to the Laundry Mat and when we pulled them out of the washing machine thousand of dead stinkbugs fell on the floor. These stinkbugs tend to try to come in our homes in the fall when we have our windows open somehow they slide past the screens. Was also told to spray Fabric Softener on the screen to deter them. I don’t go that far, just use Ortho Home Defense.


92 posted on 12/20/2016 8:22:55 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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