Is Fairy Liquid a false economy? Blog discussion

lee_c_3

My old dad used to get us to measure out a teaspoon full. Good idea methinks.

Plus the teaspoon gets a free wash

Cheers
Lee

hanreck

Fairy has noticeably weakened it's concentrate in the last years, though it still outlasts all the others with judicious use.

Bought SPAR lookalike (no Fairy in sight). It might as well have been water.

Tuttifruitty_Theresa

i always use fairy liquid and i do only use a small squirt so one bottle lasts me ages, but my mum (who also uses it) will squirt so much in the bowl that it is nearly all bubbles which to me is such a waste, she must keep proctor and gamble in busniess lol
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KTee_2

I agree that FL has got weaker and thinner ever since it went 'trendy' and became available in different colours! It no longer removes oil or grease from my hands I notice.

Having said all that I still find it to be the most effective washing-up liquid.

Idiophreak

Generally speaking, I'm quite happy to buy economy or own brand products, but Fairy is one of the places where I make an exception.

At uni, we used fairy in our sinks - we used to get a big bottle and 2 of those would probably last the house through a term.

My gf's house at uni, however, used cheap, own-brand stuff (which *was* like water) and they always seemed to have run out of it, they used it so quickly.

It did nowhere near as good a job of tackling burnt-on beans etc (common problem in student houses) and "putting it in to soak" was like leaving it in warm water - made no difference at all.

Fairy might be more expensive, but the time and effort it saves is well worth it.

vaderag

Personally, i recon sainsbury's basics washing up liquid at 17p a bottle is probably a bit more value for money!

larmy16

I agree too with some others that it lost its thickness a couple of years ago when it went posh, used to last ages before that. I am using Cussons Morning Fresh which I think is more like Fairy used to be.

sternsteven

It makes fascinating reading. Fairy is Cheaper per plate than even the dirt cheap cleaners at 13p/bottle. They looked at cost/plate greasy and non greasy plates. Some of the own brands were best buys Tesco Citrus at less cost

laughing_cow

A few months ago I decided to economise and one of my cutbacks was to buy own brand washing up liquid instead of Fairy. It was a waste of money. I've got a stainless steel pump bottle for my washing up liquid and with Fairy it only needs one pump; with the cheaper stuff I needed 3- 4 pumps. So whilst the Fairy might have been 20p more, it lasted 3-4 times longer. Back on the Fairy now, job done.

taxiphil

vaderag wrote:

Personally, i recon sainsbury's basics washing up liquid at 17p a bottle is probably a bit more value for money!

Couldn't agree more. Sainsburys Basics all the way. Smells good and works brilliantly.

It was 13p when I recently bought it so they must have put the price up, but it's still amazing value.

Bearing in mind it's a litre bottle and Fairy is 500ml for 98p, that makes the Fairy over 1000% (yes, one thousand percent, that's not a typo) the cost of Sainsburys Basics when compared on a squirt-for-squirt basis :eek:

Fairy would need to be over 10 times the concentration of the Sainsburys one to make it the same value for money, which it most definitely isn't.

sternsteven wrote:

Which report - It makes fascinating reading. Fairy is Cheaper per plate than even the dirt cheap cleaners at 13p/bottle.

Did Which really say this? I can't understand how on earth they arrived at that conclusion.