Febreze Laundry Solution, R.I.P. ?

 First off, I'd like to ask your forbearance for having crossposted this to
three groups.  Mea culpa magna.  I do believe that the best answer would
probably benefit Febreze users on all three groups though.  The situation is
this: My wife and I use Febreze laundry additive on a regular basis to
remove pet and other odors from laundry.  Unfortunately, our local
Albertson's here in Northern California seems to have stopped selling the
product, and none of the other big chains in the area have it either.  There
are OTHER Febreze products, but not the laundry additive.  My wife believes
that P & G have stopped making it, and that leads us to wonder how we're
going to find a substitute that works just as well as the Febreze did.  She
has written a letter to P & G asking why the product appears to have been
cancelled, but hasn't received a response yet.  So I suppose that this
plaintive cry from the wilderness is to ask three questions:

1. Does any know of a substitute for Febreze Laundry additive that works
just as well ?
2. If you know of a place that still sells and ships it, would you please
share the phone number and/or web page ?
3. Failing the above two, does anyone have a home-grown recipe for something
that would be just as effective ?  I've heard of a 1/4-Downy to 3/4-Water
combo, but I don't know if that's for real or not.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Eddie

  baking soda in the wash water?
maybe a little more detergent
make sure to soak clothes that are heavily soiled...
i put fabric softener in my laundry and that makes the clothes smell good

believes

something

 
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I hate when stuff like this happens. I think P&G has been doing major
repositioning on Febreeze and I suspect they've discontinued the product.
Their web page specifically suggests the following--don't know if this is
where you wrote or not:

"For questions about Febreze Laundry Odor Eliminator, please contact
Changing Paradigms LLC. Here's how you can reach them:

Changing Paradigms LLC
7786 Service Center Dr.
West Chester OH 45069
1-888-334-4890
lbragle@cparadigms.com "

 

This reads to me that they have sold off the prodict to someone else. P&G likes
to concentrate on brand leaders. If the product doesn't meet sales targets, they
spin it off to a management team or some other company.

 
Maybe. It also reads to me like they may have an outside company handling
consumer questions, complaints, etc. for a product they simply discontinued.
From doing consumer testing for them I have some knowledge of the subject at
hand, but wouldn't want to breach my confidentiality agreement, even if they
couldn't figure out who I am <g>.