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On television, the soap business is a bubbly world of pretty housewives showing off their blinding white wash, of jocular lady plumbers, and of children smearing their cherubic faces with soft, pure suds. In reality, the soap industry is one of the least jocular, least cherubic sectors of U.S. business...
Today's big fight is over low-suds detergents for automatic washers. Lever's All leads the field with 36% of low-suds sales-but All once had 98% of the business, and a free sample box was always to be found in every new automatic washing machine...
As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink . . .
> For picnickers who forget beer openers: a self-opening beer can, developed by Alcoa, and now marketed in limited areas. Raise one end of a metal tab in the top of the can and POP ! suds all over.
Gourmet's Delight. The reason for all the trouble is that most syndets are made of petroleum derivatives that are all but indestructible. Instead of breaking down in the soil and becoming food for bacteria as does soap - a nonsynthetic detergent made of animal and vegetable fats - the syndet...