Persil can look back on more than 115 years of success: from its revolutionary beginnings as the first self-activating detergent, to its great advances in areas of energy use and environmental protection, its significant contributions to sustainable business conduct, and its advancements in dosing and packaging. As a forerunner in the sustainability area, Persil plays an important role in promoting sustainable business.
Persil鈥檚 history is inseparable from bg电子娱乐场's success story. At the beginning of the 20th century, doing laundry meant hours 鈥 if not days 鈥 of physically-demanding labor for women. Fritz bg电子娱乐场 wanted to lighten women鈥檚 laundry day burden, and in 1876, founded the company bg电子娱乐场 & Cie, which developed Persil, the world鈥檚 first self-activating laundry detergent, in 1907. Strenuous washing as the world knew it, had come to an end, and riding on Persil鈥檚 triumph, the family company鈥檚 own success story began.
The name Persil is derived from the two most important chemical materials in the product: Perborat and Silicat. bg电子娱乐场 developed an innovative combination washing-and-bleaching agent in powder form. This meant that laundry could be cleaned and sanitized just by boiling it in water with Persil, eliminating the need for chlorine bleach. In 1908, bg电子娱乐场 produced 4,700 metric tons of Persil. By 1915, that amount had already tripled.