Laundry detergent "pods"

Just get good powder...

 

Don't let dear husband do the shopping.................

 

My wife uses the pods.... Clothes seem to be clean and smell good. Then again, what do I know, I'm part caveman.

 

She makes homemade powder that does really good. Borax, oxyclean, fels naptha, washing soda, and scent crystals. The last ingredient is vital, dont let snyone tell you it isnt!

 

Still trying to find one. We just upgraded to a front loader and our local small businesses owner strongly recommended a quality powder. With our old crummy machine we tried everything and settled on the homemade stuff like Grizz. I'm morally opposed to the detergent pods. Just a big gimmick to me. Plus little kids have been known to eat the an wind up in the ER.

 

Well why in h-ll would a kid eat a pod....My kid never ate bar soap or drank liquid detergent or dish soap etc. etc....

 

Because if one stupid kid eats it it's all over the internet and everyone thinks they are all doing it. We didn't have that when we were kids.

 

My wife made detergent for years. It worked better than any commercial detergent that we have tried and cost pennies a gallon. We bought a top load HE washer that calls for HE detergent. It doesn't get my greasy jeans as clean as the old washer did. My wife thinks its the HE detergent. She says the homemade doesn't make a lot of suds (supposedly the problem in HE) and we are trying it soon.

 

Don't get my wife started on HE washing machines...No agitator, no suds = no clean clothes.

 

glad to hear this from someone else. My wife HATES that thing, moved it to the basement and got a good old fashioned one

 

We have a top loading HE machine. We make our own detergent and get cleaner clothes with it. The HE pods have not dissolved before and I had to wash a few loads over. I just use them when I'm in a motel or laundromat since pods travel good.

The recipe we use is on bar of Fels Naphtha and 2 cups borax, 2 cups washing soda. 2 tbsp per load. If it's real dirty clothes I add a tbsp of oxiclean or on the girls clothes we add Dreft in the same amount.

 

Homemade detergent is safe for HE machines.

 

We use whatever is on special sale in our front load HE machine. I have also used the homemade stuff. The washer does get our clothes cleaner and the lint from the dryer is way less. Interesting thing: our drain froze this winter. During a load of laundry I was swapping 5 gallon buckets from the washer discharge. I was amazed at how much water there was and how dirty.

 

You aren't supposed to put the pods in for the prewash cycle:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/...ods-speak-out-about-stained-laundry/index.htm

I bought some when we were on vacation and they seemed to do as well as liquid detergent. Some may say it's a gimmick, but I worked for P&G for about 5 years in the R&D department, and very rarely does P&G launch something that isn't perfect. They test, test, and retest everything. I don't buy the pods regularly because it's much more expensive. But the trend with a lot of people is convenience, and that's where the pods shine. People have been convinced that they just don't have the time anymore to measure out a cup of laundry detergent, and P&G jumped on that to cut 5 seconds out of someones day.

Now I work in the grocery industry and the trends are the same. A lot of people don't want to buy in bulk and separate out individual servings of things like snacks. They'd rather pay (much) more for snack packs to save those precious seconds in the day. Expect to see more of this. Things that you used to measure, like seasonings or even spices, could come one day in little single use packets.

All to save seconds out of wifes/moms days, and add hours to husbands days when they get the wrong thing and have to drive back to the store and get the right thing!!!

 

We buy the big tub of HE powder at Sam's and it works fine.