We are Unilever’s biggest collection of detergent brands. Known as Omo, Persil, Surf Excel, Skip across the world, we are tough on stains and on a mission to be kinder to the planet.
Dirt Is Good (Persil, OMO, Ala, Skip), the world’s No.1 laundry brand, is renewing its global partnership with Arsenal Football Club.
Since 2023, the partnership has reached hundreds of millions of people with award-winning campaigns, helping deliver growth in priority markets alongside working with both Arsenal’s men’s and women’s first teams to inspire young people globally.
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Every stain has a story. Green elbows, scraped knees. Muddy shirts, bloody shorts. Sometimes it starts in a moment no one sees.
However it begins, whenever it begins – greatness isn’t built in comfort zones. It’s built in the mud, under the lights, in the moments that test you the most.
It’s fought for, dreamed of, and carried forward by every drop of sweat. The first step, the next step, the step no one else can take for you.
But we’ll be here. Because we’re extending our partnership with Arsenal F.C.
To inspire and create more stories of greatness.
You in?
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Based on a brand survey, we found that 72% of Saudi women never discuss their periods because of cultural taboos, leaving 90% to battle period stains alone.
Dirt Is Good is launching campaigns around the world to challenge the silence around period care. And although, globally, the issues of secrecy and shame are the same, our approach in Saudi Arabia had to change.
We wanted to put the power of our three-step period stain removal process into their hands; to connect with as many Saudi women as possible, on their terms. But in a country where periods aren’t spoken about, our approach needed to be discreet.
So we worked with MullenLowe MENA to create a campaign: the Art of Stains. Using the ancient tradition of henna, we crafted a subtle way of sharing the knowledge.
Together with talented henna artists, we turned the three steps into intricate symbols. As they painted the delicate designs on their customers’ hands, it seemed like the spell of silence was broken. They talked. About their first periods. Their panic. About their struggles with stains that wouldn’t come out. About their mothers, their daughters, their friends.
The Art of Stains campaign had an impressive impact. It garnered press attention, but more importantly, many women came forward to tell us how much it meant to them. One even chose to include the symbols in her bridal henna. And we visited schools, to educate girls about period care – and most importantly, to break the cycle of silence.
Watch the full campaign film below, and find out more on our Instagram at @wearedirtisgood.
#ArtOfStains#DirtIsGoodTati Lindenberg | Daniela Olivero | Sarah Qazi | Ritika Jalota | Aisha Kandil | Sophie Van Dieren | Prerna Mehra | Cameo Klarin Smiljanic | Ross Marshall | Rachael Stets