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Good point about polymeres. Some consider water soluble plastics as microplastics while others don`t. But whatever the definition may be polymeres are not so good for the environment either. The joke is I count 3 different polymeres in EC30, even polyvinyl alcohol is included. That`s the...

Haven`t owned or worked on a combo for at least 20 years so it`s very interesting to see a newer one with the "hood up" I think as long as it doesn`t impair performance or efficiency simplicity is a good thing. Condensation channels have always been prone to clog up with lint when the surface...

Thanks to Littlegreeny`s link the mystery is solved. So it`s going to be a detergent sheet and judging from the EC30 ingredients a very good one compared to other sheet detergents. Time will tell how it compares to other detergent brands and formats, but I find this statement in Tide Evo`s...

I think I read about a survey on how many washer cycles people actually use on a regular basis. Don`t remember where but might have been our consumer magazine. IIRC on average it`s only 3 cycles but each consumer, homemaker or whatever has their own choices and preferences of what is considered...

"All of our picks remove stains and odors in cold water well and leave no residue" Seriously? Just look at those stain strips from the best performing detergents, to me they look almost as dirty as the unwashed control strip. If those were cloth napkins would anyone want to use them? If...

Chetlaham It`s not a protector switch, it`s just a rating plate which indicates voltage, watts and continuous run time. The hole in the center just seems to hold a rubber part in place to lower vibration or noise from the motor.

Actually I`ve got countless of appliances that are not supposed to run continuously from vintage to brand new. Picture #1 my 50`s kitchen motor has "KB 10 min" on the rating plate which means "Kurz Betrieb 10 min" or "Short term operation" in English. #2 is a cheap modern file shredder wich...

I find liquid Ariel and Ariel pods have a very strong scent. To me liquid Persil is quite heavy in scent too but their pods for some reason aren`t. Among the budget brands I found Aldi`s liquid Tandil the most disappointing. While it is an excellent performer, maybe even better than Ariel the...

It`s pointless to recommend specific products because the perception of scents is a very individual thing. Means whatever smells heavenly to someone might stink to high heavens to another one, but if you can barely smell any fragrance on your clothes it might be a better idea to switch products...

Hi there and Merry Christmas! I have never had a chance to use eastern European detergents so cannot compare them to the German ones. I like my clothes to smell good too but unlike you I find most German detergents sufficiently scented, well at least the big brand names. But whenever I use the...

I also find it interesting how vintage detergent scents are often associated with "a light smell" or "clean and fresh" when basically they`re full of heavy musks and florals like roses and lily of the valley. I mean some musks by themselves just smell like a clean anus. Clean but still anus...

The vast majority of laundry detergents and FS have always smelled like "cheap lady`s perfume", right from the start when manufacturers decided to add scent to their products. The thing is that the perfume market is very "fashion driven", similar to the clothing market. Trends and preferences...

It may also be worth to note that the inseam of modern male jeans doesn`t go all the way up to the crotch anymore. This way there`s room for whatever you`ve got or not no matter how tight they are, which makes them kind of safe even for the North American market. LOL Personally I don`t like...

Are "shrink to fit" jeans still on the market today? Those were actually larger in size than the inch numbers indicated and this was the type some may have worn in the bathtub for a perfect fit. And those who didn`t want to bother with this would just buy them in their known size and let the...

Dave, you beat us all! Too bad there`s no comments section under the RD article where we could ask what we`re supposed to do if we have a hamper full of dirty jeans to wash at once. LOL

I think it doesn`t matter how stupid and pointless it is to wash jeans in the shower. It`s been over 20 years since Levi`s legendary 501s have been "in fashion" where literally everybody wore them. 501s and the Levi brand in general will have a huge come back again sometime, no doubt about it...

The most important difference will be the increase in profit for Reckitt and Benckiser. I could imagine as soon as they rolled out the Infinity Shine version the regular Ultimate`s package got a little update too including a new barcode number because they silently lowered the quality of those...

Ok, so I had to look it up in my favorite specialist book on laundry detergents just to make sure I wasn`t talking BS in reply #3. On a side note, I fully agree with Eddie on how stupid it is to use expensive booze for this purpose. And just because Blanche didn`t pick up a detergent related...

I don`t get the point of a fire hazard. Apart from dilution with plenty of wash and rinse water, is vodka even at full strength strong enough to ignite? So even if a whole bottle of 100% alcohol was used per wash cycle you`d never even come close to the alcohol content of beer when the cycle is...

Didn`t the first generations of liquid detergents in the 1980s contain large amounts of alcohols like ethanol? Nowadays stuff like glycerin or propylene glycol seems to be favored instead, these are some sort of alcohols too, aren`t they? Hopefully someone with more insight will chime in. I...