Ghostbusters wasn’t the only thing to feature famous green slime in the 1980s, Swarfega celebrated forty years during the Eighties with some classic adverts showing off the best the decade had to offer.
Demand was such for the green gel that they had their own fleet of lorries keeping the country supplied with Swarfega.
Deb, was expanding its ranges with lots of new products being launched, some with pretty special names and adverts.
Swarfega could of named the ‘Trific’ cleaner following an evening watching the nations favourite brothers, Rodney and Del Boy, in Only Fools and Horses.
Trific gave metal and enamel a serious shine without scratching it, lovely jubbly.
The Eighties was a rich period for the creative team in Swarfega, making its own comic book characters such as the Grime Gobblers who kept tar and grime at bay with Jizer.
The decade welcomed Super Duck, who, with his x-ray vision, could quickly spot a stiff steering problem and dose it with Duck Oil.
With Inspector Gadget ruling the airwaves, a crack squad of super sleuths were handpicked by Deb who set out to seek and destroy dirt and germs; Agent Swarfega promised death to dirt but no damage to skin.
Alongside Swarfega’s own advertising, some notable customers also hopped on to the Swarfega band-wagon with BMW, Walkers Crisps and Thornton’s chocolates all proud to say they chose Swarfega to keep their hands clean.
Walkers Crisps even had their own formulation to make sure their staff got the grease off.
Later on Swarfega took on the talking dirty taboo. Luckily it was only an honest conversation about the launch of a high-pressure car washer.
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