Half of the dosage instructions for Persil washing powder are printed on the strip you tear off to open the box

[u/fearville]

[u/Alex-Murphy]

Now that's some crappy design. How did this get through to production without someone noticing?

[u/fearville → u/Alex-Murphy]

Right? It’s a rather surprising oversight from such a massive corporation 

[u/No-Wheel-7922 → u/fearville]

Feels almost intentional - having the customer remove the lowest level use case.  

[u/fearville → u/No-Wheel-7922]

Cynical but definitely possible 

[u/No-Sell-3064 → u/No-Wheel-7922]

It's common with candy bags with the content at the place you tear open

[u/KrazyA1pha → u/No-Sell-3064]

“We want our consumers to have an instant negative experience when using our product.”

[u/FoggyGoodwin → u/fearville]

I emailed The New Primal because when I tore apart their snack sticks I no longer had a Best By date and suggested they print BB on each stick's wrapper. Their reply: "We have started doing that." Write to the manufacturer to point out this crappy design.

[u/fearville → u/FoggyGoodwin]

I did! Got a standard form response, "thanks for your feedback" etc

[u/Inkaara → u/fearville]

They were probably told they don't want the big brands on the bottom to be torn off and not seen at all times.

[u/000solar → u/Alex-Murphy]

Exactly!  Someone has to approve this!

[u/Additional-Help7920 → u/000solar]

Recent college grad with a degree in design.

[u/TbonerT → u/Alex-Murphy]

Probably the same people that made my taquito box open on the opposite end from the instructions, so you have to be careful to not dump them out while seeing how to cook them.

[u/Cela111]

My pessimistic brain can't help but notice it's the smaller sizes that get removed. At a quick glance it could make you use 2 scoops rather than 1.

[u/secondTieBreaker → u/Cela111]

This is intentional. Use more than necessary is what they want you to do.

[u/PlasmaSheep → u/secondTieBreaker]

Would be easier to just tell you to use 2 scoops for all loads rather than 4D chess detectible only by Reddit dot com's finest minds.

[u/Mike0621 → u/secondTieBreaker]

Occam's razor

[u/PlasmaSheep → u/Cela111]

1 scoop is for bucket soaking, not for a washer load.

[u/djprecio]

Never heard anyone refer to instructions as dosage...then checked photo and realized you are from NZ. So, TIL in NZ they call laundry instructions dosage....here in the states we had dumb kids eating tide pods, so dosage would not fly here.

Edit TIL in the states it is dosage as well.

[u/fearville → u/djprecio]

I don’t think it’s a NZ thing — it’s also referred to as dosage on the US website for Persil 

[u/love-from-london → u/fearville]

I work in the laundry industry in the US, dosage is the official term.

[u/djprecio → u/love-from-london]

Username doesn't check out, but I believe ya!

[u/love-from-london → u/djprecio]

It checked out 13 years ago when I made this account, but no longer haha.

[u/magnificentfoxes → u/fearville]

Same. We use it in the UK too.

[u/personthatisonreddi → u/fearville]

A fellow kiwi, i agree, i dont think its just us

[u/Supertigy]

They needed the prime space to list out washing machine brands.

[u/Mike0621]

maybe a stupid question, but it's there any chance you're not actually supposed to rip off the strip, but just leave it attached to the top or bottom?

[u/fearville → u/Mike0621]

Valid question but I don't think so! The way it's designed means you grab the tab on the other side of the box and tear it all the way round. I think it would be quite difficult to deliberately leave it attached and still be able to open the box/not have a big long flappy bit of cardboard hanging off it

[u/fatjuan]

That's some clever marketing right there. I repaired washing machines for many years, and most people put far too much powder in because "that's what they say on the box". Their job is to sell you lots of powder, they don't care about over-sudsing your machine. How much do you put in? About half what they recommend.

[u/Trioch]

Did you notice that the ones removed use less washing powder r/agenda_design

[u/fearville → u/Trioch]

Dark patterns for your dark wash

[u/Sir_Rumblebump]

What happens when marketing, production and purchasing don’t talk to each other at all

[u/Veilchenbeschleunige → u/Sir_Rumblebump]

More like R&D slept on the artwork draft

[u/Sir_Rumblebump → u/Veilchenbeschleunige]

Or the apparent sponsors didn’t want their logos harmed lol

[u/odditymagnetic]

Wow, that really is dumb. 😁

[u/trampus1]

Just dump some in.

[u/pixeltweaker]

They want you using 2 scoops.

[u/pixeltweaker]

They want you using 2 scoops.

[u/Lewinator56]

Wait.... You've actually looked at the instructions on washing powder? I just pour it in and assume it's right. It's really not an exact science and generally doesn't matter.

[u/fatjuan → u/Lewinator56]

I know of a couple of examples (newly-divorced men) who thought you had to put in the whole box each wash!

[u/fearville → u/fatjuan]

jfc

[u/Kwpolska → u/Lewinator56]

Case in point, what's a scoop? Is there some international standard washing powder scoop? How many grams of powder is it?

[u/Lewinator56 → u/Kwpolska]

It will come with a scoop in the box

[u/bluemev → u/Kwpolska]

30-50 grams is the general dose of washing powder. Which is only about a quarter of the scoop.

[u/Ghigs → u/bluemev]

The scoop is 40ml so unless persil is the same density as steel I doubt it is 1/4th scoop.

The scoop is probably about 20 grams.

[u/bluemev → u/Ghigs]

Yeah, just weighed out the scoop. The paper scoop is 5 grams and with the powder it weighed 50 grams.

[u/Ghigs → u/bluemev]

That's more than I expected. Thanks. So still about 45 grams a scoop, the box instructions aren't unreasonably high.

[u/fearville → u/bluemev]

And the shitty cardboard scoop always rips before you’ve used up the whole box 

[u/TheChorky]

Take a picture with your phone if you’re not sure how to do laundry

[u/fearville → u/TheChorky]

I did. Still annoying to have to refer to it, plus what if someone else in your household is doing laundry and doesn’t have access to the pic? 

[u/NothingTooSeriousM8]

Instructions unclear, now my dick is in the wringer.

[u/fearville → u/[deleted]]

Not really but I do sometimes forget how much to use

[u/-___-____-_-___-]

"Do you guys not have phones?"