Persil
brand of laundry detergent
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Persil is a brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by two (unrelated) companies Henkel of Germany and Unilever of the United Kingdom. Unilever manufacture and market the brand in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Latin America, China, Australia and New Zealand. In all other countries Persil is manufactured and marketed by Henkel. Persil was introduced in 1907 by Henkel. It was the first commercially available laundry detergent that combined bleach with the detergent. The name was derived from two of its original ingredients, sodium perborate and sodium silicate.
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