Look around the back of the bag, if it doesn't say containes no fosfato than you have the real deal...BUT if it does say contains no fosfato its still a great detergent....that's Mexican Ariel you have there.

Pinky, here is the ingredient list. I don't see the word phosphates, or no fosfato, used anywhere on the bag. What do you think? Just a nice detergent, but probably not better than Tide or Persil? I just bought a small bag, but they had huge bags and they seemed very cheap. Thanks for your advice.

Your bag has phosphates...congrats...P&G stopped listing phosphates in the ingredients. .if it doesn't say no fosfato than they are in there.

Yay! So I do not need to add any STPP, right? Should I go back and buy more? Is this the sort of thing they might have to stop selling?

Lizzie...they recently removed the phosphates. .the new bags say contains no fosfatos..so the new bags won't have phosphates. .check the bags before you buy

Lizzie let me explain..P$G tried to stop the importing of Ariel to Mexican stores in the US they couldn't so instead they took phosphates out of the ingredients list in hope that people would no longer know their there. Than they decided to remove all phosphates from their detergents in Latin America. And they did..so any bags that say contains no fosfatos wwon't have phosphates, I think its written on the back of the bags, if its not on the bag than it does have phosphates. I'm sure there'sstill some to be found. The new Mexican Ariel without phosphates is now at Walmart, the bag looks like yours..and even wwithout phosphates its good and you can always add stpp.

Do you like the scent? Its a bittersweet scent and leaves the cclothes smelling very fresh and clean, I love it, but I think its one of those scents you either love or hate. .let me know what you think.

It smells like sweettarts.

Cool! I think I will go back to the bodega and check the big bags and maybe load up. I have my first load in the dryer and will check the scent, but generally this SQ washes out all scent. The only thing that ever survives is just a whiff of Persil liquid on those occasions I use it.

LOL, pinky, I'm sliding down the slippery soap slope! I'm turning into a detergent junkie!

Lizzie, welcome aboard, being a detergent junkie will take over your life, every store you go in the first thing you will do is head to the detergent, you will also be on the hunt for mom and pops stores, knowing they might have some discontinued goodies...and you will have to find another coat closet because yours will be holding your stash. Lol

Lizzie, my Queen also rinses all scents away except Persil liquid and ProCaps, sometimes I get a whiff of Ariel or Gain original. However I have been told that I just may not be detecting the detergents scent since I am smelling it so often and the scent left on the washed clothes is so faint and that's for sure a possiablity. Now Surf powders...left a very strong scent on my finished laundry. I am not very sensitive to scents but Surf REEKS. I had donated all the Surf powders in my stash because the scent was everywhere but on hindsight I wish I'd kept one of the small boxes for my stash ..for the future. Lol.