Product Review: Victoria Natural Herbal Laundry Powder

Victoria Laundry Powder has been around for several years—maybe more than a decade, even—and in the last couple of years, has been readily available in the major supermarket chains. It’s actually something I intentionally seek out in a supermarket, even though I won’t be buying it, just to see if the supermarket has it in stock.

This fascination I have with Victoria Laundry Powder dates back to several years ago. For a time when I was younger, my mother and I developed a reaction to regular, commercial detergents. A family friend recommended Victoria to us, and we started using it on our clothes—and our rashes quickly left. It’s really great for people who have sensitive skin because, since it doesn’t use any harsh detergents, and is made from completely natural ingredients, it doesn’t leave a residue on your clothes that can cause rashes and irriations. This also means that it’s gentle on the hands, and it won’t cause wounds for those who do a lot of hand washing.

Victoria also claims to be completely biodegradable. I unfortunately don’t have the resources to test if this claim is true, but taking them at their word, this is a good thing—this means that it won’t release chemical contaminants into the soil and into our groundwater.

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Buy Pinoy is Back in Black!

I acknowledge that I’ve neglected the Buy Pinoy blog over the last four or five weeks. I have no excuses! I could tell you about all the things that have kept me busy over the last month, but I still wouldn’t have a real excuse for not posting new content sooner. I just let other things come first before blogging, treated this blog like a chore, and generally forgot what originally spurred me to begin this blog in the first place—which is really my desire to share how great Pinoy products are, especially to my fellow Pinoys.

I was confronted by this when I received a text message from Boyet, one of the individuals behind OneTama.com, and it hit me then just how much I had forgotten my original intentions for starting this blog. Has this ever happened to you: you experience something so striking that you just have to share it with everyone? Well, that’s exactly how I felt when I started this blog—I had a very ordinary, but striking insight that I wanted to put into reality and share with others.

That insight? It’s really simple: that we don’t have to look far or break our banks to find high-quality, locally-made products; and by doing so, we contribute to our country as a whole.

After all, if we believe in something strongly enough, shouldn’t it be seen in our everyday actions?

Just this Friday, I was giving a talk to a student publication that I used to write for when I was an undergraduate, and I remember telling them how much the social climate had changed since I was an undergraduate. During those years, having t-shirts that had cleverly-designed, nationalistic slogans were unheard (and un-thought) of; the kind of national pride present in pop culture at the moment was then nonexistent.

Should we just let the sense of national pride stay at the level of TV ads and t-shirts and clever slogans and snazzy ad campaigns? If we’re really proud of who we are and what we do shouldn’t that translate into our everyday actions, not just the heroic or exceptional ones? Even actions as mundane as buying things?

So, do watch out for more entries and updates from me in the next months! I promise a new post every week, but I’ll also try for two entries a week, if I can. Watch out too for guest posts from other bloggers!