Daz (detergent)

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rdf:langString Daz is the name of a laundry detergent on the market in the United Kingdom and Ireland and was introduced in February 1953. It is manufactured by Procter & Gamble and is lower priced than P&G's main brand, Ariel.Aggressively marketed, it is associated in popular culture with the "Daz Doorstep Challenge" series of commercials, which saw various 'hosts' including Danny Baker, Shane Richie and Michael Barrymore surprising house occupiers by asking them to put Daz to the test against a rival detergent. The advert was spoofed by Dom Joly in the British sketch series Trigger Happy TV and in a John Smith's advertising campaign featuring Peter Kay. From 1999 to 2002 Julian Clary was the face of Daz laundry detergent, one of the first of his advert campaigns being a "Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public" roadshow with Daz Tablets. From 2002 to 2019, Daz TV commercials were set in an outlandish "Cleaner Close" soap opera. Daz is available in powder (handwash and automatic), liquid, professional liquid and all-in-one multi-compartment pods, in common with most other P&G laundry detergent brands. In some packs of 3-in-1 Pods, the individual pods are printed with Daz/Vizir/Tide, as the same product was sold in multiple European markets under different local brands. However, despite the Tide name appearing, they are not the same formulation as Tide Pods in the USA.