Recent content by mrboilwash

You are aware that advertising is more about make believe and selling things than about facts? LOL I don`t think anyone actually believes or expects a 10x detergent to be 10 times stronger, better or whatever than their standard version.

According to my textbook on detergent chemistry OBAs can be a huge problem on pastels but they don`t have a visible impact on bright and dark colors. I also remember an older consumer test on color detergents where one of the products contained OBAs. IIRC color protection was no worse than the...

Darks are actually the least susceptible colors to OBAs. In normal daylight you wouldn`t even notice any difference. In blacklight like in a nightclub or under bad fluorescent lamps that emit a higher dose of UV rays as they are supposed to things might look different of course. The most...

The amount of water just determines the strength of a product, adding more wouldn`t help much to keep it from drying out. Alcohol and salts are added for the perfect texture or viscosity. Alcohol among other things can make detergent mixtures more liquid or "runny", salts make things thicker...

Usually I wear them 3-4 days all seasons unless they get visibly dirty then I change them immediately of course. For me the length of an acceptable "wear cycle" of clothes stands and falls with how clean they are to beginn with. When travelling with a small carry on bag only I might wear them...

Sorry for bringing an old thread back alive, but I think it`s not that old to justify starting a new one. So the German consumer magazine Test picked up the story about toxic flame retardants in black US cooking utensils, sent 26 different EU samples to a lab and all of them were deemed okay...

Batman, I live in Germany and use a Miele. The maximum temperature on the dial is 95°C (203°F) and the those cycles are still called "Kochwäsche" (boil wash) here but in fact no European washer for household use can go over 89°C (192°F) by design anymore, because the excessive steam would deform...

Isn`t electrolysis the process to manufacture the bleach an energy consuming process too? I wonder how much less energy is really used when using bleach compared to thermal sanitation in a modern efficient front loader. If you factor in the additional wear on fabrics and the environmental...

I couldn`t tell what is actually made by Henkel but the "Kirkland Ultra Clean Free & Clear" liquid`s ingredients share some eye catching similarities with "All Fresh and Clean Oxi Plus Odor Lifter" and to some extent also with Persil. Of course it doesn`t proof anything but it makes me...

According to this press release Henkel sells its North American store brand business, so it might be a good time to stock up on your favorite Kirkland, Aldi or whatever else that *could* be Henkel quality in cheap disguise before new owners get a chance to fiddle with formulas...

"One thing I never understood was where the moisture is supposed to go with heated dry and no fan or vent." I think the idea of heated dry has always been more about rising the temperature of the dishes even higher and more efficiently than a heated rinse alone would do. You are still supposed...

My mom`s first dishwasher (late 70s) did exactly the same thing on cups in the corners of the upper rack. Leaving gritty redeposits that were not there before. It was a Bauknecht which had the same spray arm and rack design as Whirlpool used to have in the US back then. Today I still can`t bring...

Here in the "Homeland" of locked shopping carts a lot of people also prefer tokens to coins and surprisingly everybody still seems to return their carts. You really never see a stray cart on the parking lot and if you do it`s a very rare sight. Might be because of a sentimental to the tokens...

Zinc ricinoleate and cyclodextrin work by trapping and binding odors, but most so called odor fighting detergents simply work by masking odors with a strong perfume. Non of it is a great solution in the long run. Depending on what is causing the odors you might have better results by fighting...

I still found it fun to watch just for the pictures alone