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A friend of mine once mentioned he`d always make a larger batch of bolognese and just put some of it boiling hot into super clean twist off glasses the same way as you`d do when making jam. No canning involved. It`s supposed to keep up to a couple of weeks in the fridge then. Not sure if I`d...

Don`t mix quat based sanitizer with detergent. Most detergents contain anionic surfactants (negatively charged) and quats are just like fabric softener cationic surfactants (positively charged). When mixed the two will cancel each other out which means either poor cleaning and or poor...

Pink whites It could be rust from older zink coated steel water pipes or iron or manganese naturally occurring in the water. You could try to restore the items by soaking in white vinegar water, but don`t expect a huge success. If the acid is strong enough to work well it might also damage...

Are those people getting payed by environmental authorities for spreading BS like this? That would be the only logical explanation I could think of. LOL

Alexander`s right! Grains per gallon (gpg) is nearly the same as German Degrees (°dH) not just according to Wikipedia (wich is always to be taken with a "grain" of salt) but according to many hardness converters found on the net too. Soft water in Europe can be just as soft as soft water in...

As to the color of the box I`d check their website before buying to make sure you won`t get old stock.

Hi jbrady3324, yes you`re right the Color Megaperls have more than 30% zeolites vs less than 5% in the Color Powder and according to German consumer tests they also have way more cleaning power. Nor sure what a little oxi would do to neutralize chlorine or how much of it would make sense at all...

I don`t get where this "cold gives better results than warm as long as dedicated cold water detergents are used" believing comes from. Suppose if a lie is repeated in aggressive advertising for long enough and again and again people will just believe it no matter what. For decades I`ve been...

It`s interesting to see Original Gain as the worst liquid detergent, after all the stuff is not that cheap. Not a new insight that bargain brands of the big multinationals are their money makers which means you may save a few cents but you get a much worse value for your money compared to a...

Yuccadew- So it`s definitely the zeolites to blame. Had it been a too little detergent problem then you might have had dark streaks on dark clothes which would be most pronounced when clothes are still wet. I was just a little bit skeptical because the zeolite content of Persil Color Powder is...

If there is a chalky residue of zeolites to cause white streaks on darks then they should be removed by the dryer. As others already suggested good rinsing and not overdosing the detergent will limit the residue in the first place, the dryer or brushing with a clothes brush after line drying...

Hi Donprohel, right now I`m happy with my stove top hand washing routine but will consider to try out ammonia sometime. The fact that it goes for five to ten times the price you`d pay for in Spain (I checked my Mercadona app) and having not much space for even more cleaning products still...

Ammonia or "Salmiakgeist" sounds like an interesting chemical to me. Unfortunately just like chlorine bleach which is at least still widely available it seems to be considered an obsolete cheap third world cleaning chemical here and is only carried in home improvement stores. And since it`s such...

Is anyone else here working out on a regular basis? I do so and wearing weight lifting gloves during a work out is absolutely essential for me to have a secure grip and no blisters. The problem is even if I let them dry immediately after each use they can get really nasty from the sweat after...

As much as I love to cook and bake occasionally from scratch not everyone has the time or is willing to live the life of a trad wife. That`s when unhealthy convenience products like cans or frozen food come in handy. I enjoy them but I also try not to have too much of it. Some home made...

Depending on the DW and what cycle is used turbidity sensors can misread suds as heavy soil which would explain superior cleaning of Cascade pods in particular if the load has only a few challenging items in a rather lightly soiled load. Kind of defeats the point an automatic cycle but hey...

Why would they? All Persil detergents are heavy duty Perwoll and Fewa are their light duty brands

On our last trip to the States we`ve had a BOL GE dishwasher, one of those builder`s grade water hogs with a pop up tower and a mechanical timer and in the second location a super annoying Frigidaire (annoying because of the the high pitched noise and the pauses before alternating spray arms)...

The German consumer magazine Warentest BTW evaluates the efficiency of dish soap by sudsing. Not to be confused with cleaning ability which is evaluated by a wipe test after a soak and of course dish soap is not laundry detergent, but still. If the absence of suds is a clear indicator for the...

This could just as well be seen as an example why suds level isn`t an indication of proper rinsing. If there`s not a trace of residual oils in clothes or like in this case no clothes at all, even a tiny amount of detergent or detergent residue might beat up plenty of suds in a FL or any other...