The 'Washday Miracle': The 75th anniversary of Tide laundry detergent
The ‘Washday Miracle’: The 75th anniversary of Tide laundry detergent Updated Mar 08, 2021; Facebook Share In the 1930s, David “Dick” Byerly worked for Procter & Gamble as a scientist. He was “quietly working on a cleaning agent called Product X, that he believed had great potential to revolutionize how families washed clothes.” His goal was to create a detergent that would clean better than anything else available. After seven years, his project was cancelled. But, in his spare time he still worked on it. “After 14 years he finally created a prototype product that was quickly ...