Rod TV65 'Wow!!! I Remember' Calgon - 'Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?'

Rod TV65 Wow I Remember presents Toys "R" Us. Calgon is an American brand of bath and beauty products , owned PDC Brands. The original product consisted of powdered sodium hexametaphosphate which in water would complex with ambient calcium ion and certain other cations, preventing formation of unwanted salts and interference by those cations with the actions of soap or other detergents. Today, the Calgon brand is owned by the Reckitt Benckiser company for use in Europe as a water softener, and in the United States by PDC Brands as a bath and beauty product. "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?" A set of commercials from the early 70s that ran for many years was for Calgon powdered water softener for laundry. They were set in a Chinese laundry somewhere in Anytown, USA. A Caucasian lady customer at the counter (American actress Pamela Wiley) asks "Mr. Lee" (played by Chinese-American actor Calvin Jung), "How do you get your shirts so clean?" He puts a finger to his lips and says, with a light Chinese accent, "Ancient Chinese secret. "The scene shifts to Mrs. Lee (Japanese-American actress Anne Miyamoto) in the back room, who overhears her husband and says – in a perfectly flat Midwestern accent – "My husband! Some hotshot! Here's his "Ancient Chinese Secret"—Calgon!" Mrs. Lee then praises new formula Calgon, stating that when it is added to rinse water it helps make clothes 30 percent cleaner. The customer is just about to exit the laundry when Mrs. Lee pops her head around the door frame and calls to her husband, "We need more Calgon!" The customer turns around and challenges Mr. Lee: "'Ancient Chinese Secret,' huh?" Mr. Lee smiles sheepishly.


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