Advertising Is Good For You

Guaranteed to make your clothes smell like a candle from the dollar store

Gain Apple Mango Tango laundry products.

Zombi-Kleen. For those hard to kill stains.

Click here to see a real-life creepy ad for laundry detergent.

Via Savage Chickens

Woolite commercial from horror auteur Rob Zombie

One can understand Woolite's desire to stand out from other clothes detergents. Not sure Rob Zombie's allusions to torture are the way to go.

Click here to watch Rob Zombie's commercial for Woolite, The Torturer.

A few years ago, my brother talked me into watching Rob Zombie's movie, House of 1000 Corpses. The title sounds like a campy Vincent Price movie from the 1960s. It was actually two hours of graphic torture scenes. And the last time I let my brother pick the movie.

Beautifully illustrated ads from Poland

"Keep the color"

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Heinze.Iwinski
Art Director: Sylwia Rekawek
Copywriter: Justyna Nakielska
Illustrator: Anna Halarewicz
Published: March 2011

From France, a charming ad campaign for Colgate-Palmolive Ajax household cleaner

See the brighter side of life.

Click images to enlarge.

Advertising Agency: Y&R Paris, France

From Ads of the World

A cleaner design for Bon Ami packaging

Bon Ami powder cleanser has redesigned its packaging to better communicate the brand's environmental friendliness -- no phosphates, no chlorine, no other harsh chemicals.

The company is keeping its iconic chick and tag line, "Hasn't scratched yet." 

In case you were wondering, this is what the packaging used to look like:

Just couldn't resist these awesome paper towels.

The gold standard for warm and fuzzy (warm and feathery, too) TV commercials

Beautifully done commercial for grease-cutting Dawn dish detergent.

CLICK HERE to watch the Dawn detergent commercial. Really, this time

Unfortunately, from what I've read, if the oil isn't washed off the animal very soon after its exposure to the oil, the toxins in the oil have already been absorbed into the animal's body and it will die regardless.

Nice amateur copywriting

 

It's actually a ripoff of (or homage to, depending on your point of view) the Frank's hot sauce campaign.

Found at Unique Daily.

Glade ad campaign from Brazil

I'm a sucker for pretty flower images... The translation in these ads isn't great but you get the idea.

World's climate has really gone crazy. In midsummer, spring.

You'd better know a good gardener. Your bathroom will need one.

Advertising Agency: Giovanni+Draftfcb, Rio de Janeiro

These ads and many more can be found at Ads of the World.

Holiday ad for Tide detergent

Retro ad for laundry detergent

Dixan Active Ash. An updated classic.

It exploits the active ingredients in ash, the remedy used in the past when nature offered the way to achieve impeccable cleanness. You'll rediscover the cleanness of once upon a time, once again.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan

Source: Ads of the World

Attack of the Stains

Be prepared with Ariel.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Guangzhou, China

Source: Ads of the World