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Tide Detergent and the Political Environment
According to Otto Bettmann's memorably titled book, The Good Old Days -- They Were Terrible, adulteration of soaps and foodstuffs were rife in the era of the 1910's and 1920's before Tide Detergent became a reality in the 1930's America. (Bettmann, 1974) Thus, the main legal consideration for Proctor & Gamble was not the safety of Tide or indeed any detergent as a product, rather it was forming a patent for its manufacture, to avoid the chemical process for manufacturing detergent becoming widely known. Today, the method of securing patents is so widely circulated that there are books written on the subject in the form of do-it-yourself guides. (Pressman, 2000) Also, there are sites on the Internet devoted to patent protection. But at the time, P&G's methodology of creating something to make whites truly whiter was a hotly contested patented product. After all, "for the farmer's...
(U.S. Water News Online, 1998) In 1970 Canada banned the use of phosphates in laundry detergent, another key substance in the manufacture of Tide at the time. At present, thus, given the widespread knowledge of how to technically manufacture laundry detergent, the main political and regulatory concerns of Proctor & Gamble are not those of chemical impingement from their competitors, but dealing with the environmental issues…
U.S. Water News Online (November 1998) "Science, not politics, should determine environmental regulations, scientist tells detergent industry."
Tide Liquid Detergent: Technological Development detergent is "a synthetic chemical that acts as a soap." (Willet, 1998) Until the 20th century, "very few synthesized chemicals existed," and the widespread synthesizing of materials out of the hydrocarbons that compose detergents was not possible until after the Second World War, when Tide was invented. (Willet, 1998) But still, it is difficult from today's perspective to appreciate the full implications for the technical components of the wide synthesizing of hydrocarbons. Unlike soap, detergents do not react poorly with hard water and causes the mineral salts in the water to form an insoluble substance, leaving laundry gray after repeated washings. (Bellis, 2004).
This is one reason during Victorian times; laundry washing was such an arduous, to say nothing of an infrequent household event. (Flanders, 2004) At the time, the Procter & Gamble Company made ivory soap but knew soap's disadvantages regarding clothing, so "by the 1920s, P&G chemists had figured out a way to create chemicals with special two-part molecules, one end of which was attracted to water and the other end of which was attracted to grease and dirt. Using this chemical in water could loosen grime in clothes, holding it suspended until it could be washed away. They called these new molecules synthetic surface-active agents -- synthetic surfactants for short."
Tide Proctor and Gamble's Distribution System of Tide channel of distributing a product refers to the product's "sequence or marketing intermediaries" that begins after the product has been formulated and created that then pass on the product to the consumer. (Principles of Marketing, 2004, p.5) Proctor and Gamble as a company has recently been commended for using agent-based distribution system modeling. This system is credited with transforming the company. (Anthes, 2003) According
Tide The term marketing refers to identification and anticipation of consumer needs and wants and then satisfying them in a profitable manner. With the increase in globalization and consumer knowledge, marketing has evolved to become a comprehensive field with rapidly changing dynamics and is a key contributor in the success and failure of any business. The way a marketing strategy of any product is designed depends greatly on whether the commodity is
Ocean Tides are the periodic rise and fall of the ocean waters due to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on the surface of the earth. This paper is all about oceanic tides in which we shall discuss what causes tides, what are high and low tides, the types of tides, the phenomenon of tidal currents and waves, the effect of tides on the coastlines, and on
Tide PODS, a P&G product, marketed internationally. The product was introduced in 2012, February, and were availed countrywide on shelves the next month (Hostetler 1). Tide Pods have many benefits and a few weaknesses, which are discussed in this article. One of the merits of the product is convenience. The product comes in three-chamber packets of liquid that offer the usual amazing cleaning, but with twice as much compression as
For this, I found it to be quite interesting. With hints of rhyme, the progression of the tale expresses something dark, which is constantly eluded after the depiction of undesired ash. This poem altered in mere few, subtle absences and additions with the revised edition. Both poems provoke an interest as to what the main issue and dilemma remains for the poet. It progresses smoothly without escaping the vestige
The induction effect of static electricity is what allows capacitors to work. Simply put, a charge of any given value on one object will induce an opposite charge on the adjacent surface of any nearby object. Imagine two metal spheres, separated from each other by a small distance. If we charge sphere a negatively, sphere B. will develop a positive charge on the hemisphere adjacent to sphere a. In fact,