8 Reasons Using Liquid Detergent Is Better

[combo52]

Aldi's liquid detergent

That we get here is made in Canada.

Hi Mark, I can't believe you haven't tried shopping at Aldi I can go to the local Aldi's buy about 70 items and be home in a half an hour. It's so easy to get through their storage because they're smaller And you can find what you want. You're also saving about 50% compared to the large chains. that's a huge savings.

I especially love the fact that you have to put a quarter in to use the shopping cart. It makes a very nice interaction with other shoppers as I often give the cart to somebody else or someone gives me one it also eliminates shopping carts all over the parking lot becausepeople put them away where they belong. If you don't wanna put it away there's usually somebody around that will come and put it away just to get the free quarter, it's a wonderful system that saves a lot of accidents and automobile damage every year.

John

 

[launderess]

"Launderess, is this the American Tandil?"

Can't really say I'm sure.

Did an internet search and up came results.

Having never been to an Aldi store in USA much less seen a packet of their detergent cannot say what is what.

 

[launderess]

Review of Tandil laundry products sold in USA.

https://www.aldireviewer.com/tandil-essentials-mountain-fresh-laundry-detergent/

https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-tandil-laundry/

Going by SDS Tandil liquid detergent seems rather common enough ingredient wise.

https://corporate.aldi.us/fileadmin...e_SDS_files/45185_SDS_Tandil_HDL_Original.pdf

Ingredient list courtesy of Skin Safe Products website:
https://www.skinsafeproducts.com/ta...rgent-original-scent-64-loads-100-fl-oz-2-95l

What stands out at one is for a brand name product Aldi didn't skimp on enzymes. OTOH in common with many liquid format laundry products stuff is heavy on preservatives.

Detergent also contains two known skin sensitizers, sodium borate and propylene glycol. One or both may cause those with sensitive skin or otherwise prone to allergic reactions to have issues.

As always it pays to wander about the archives:

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?65358_7

 

[launderess]

"So this detergent is sold in America but not made in America? "

What of it?

Persil (Europe), Ariel (Europe), Tidematic (India?), Miele (Europe) and countless other laundry products are being flogged in USA that are made outside of these shores.

 

[appnut]

I looked up my local Aldi and they have a variety of 3 different formulas of liquid Tandil

 

[launderess]

"That is so cool to me that they actually take local water conditions into consideration for their formulations... especially a store brand... that's crazy... I had no clue that was even a thing. I wonder if they do the same thing with dishwasher detergents?"

Nothing new, P&G, Henkel, Lever Bros and anyone else with pretensions to mass production of laundry soaps or detergents long has conducted testing of products in regard to local water conditions in target markets. This explains why on average persons in soft water areas of USA may use less of certain European detergents.

Other testing many major laundry detergent makers put their products through is coping with common soils and stains for local market. That is certain stain making things or soils are more common than elsewhere.

In UK any decent laundry detergent must be able to cope with curry, beetroot, grass and muck.

In France and some other parts of Europe it's red wine.

Italy? Various pasta and other sauces made from tomatoes....

 

[appnut]

And in some ways, those of us in the US, all 3 of those types need to be included due to diversity of population and dietary preferences???

 

[mrboilwash]

So US Tandil is made in Canada and has nothing to do with Dalli.
The link to the Dalli ingredients list seems to be for a German Tandil version from like 10 years ago when almost all liquid detergents here including the big name brands were much weaker performing just because consumers still expected them to be inferior to powders.

"What stands out at one is for a brand name product Aldi didn't skimp on enzymes"

Contract manufacturers like the one in Canada who manufactures for Aldi US or Dalli or McBride or whoever may be under contract in Europe will always produce to the price and quality a purchaser like Aldi demands.
A good contract manufacturer also will tailor products exactly to match products that local consumer organisations consider best.
And a good retail chain will demand no less! Since Aldi sells very little of the big national brands their own stuff better has to be good to be successful in the long run.
However there can be some minor trade offs sometimes. Good scent oils for example just like enzymes are expensive and since they can`t skimp on enzymes to get good ratings and scent is usually not rated in detergent tests it`s no surprise that scentaholics like me need to add Unstoppables or similar when using a top rated store brand like Tandil.

"Having never been to an Aldi store in USA much less seen a packet of their detergent cannot say what is what"

There should be several Aldi stores within New York`s subway grid.
Give it a try, I promise you you won`t regret your purchase there. Well, their chocolate flavoured pop tarts weren`t so great, but just like in their home market in Germany you can usually expect top quality at a fair price in their US stores too.

 

[launderess]

Actually there is an Aldi not far from us, but reviews both online and from people one knows who have been aren't entirely positive.

This particular store is located above Costco. When we do shopping at Costco it's generally outside of city where stores are larger, cleaner and of course can simply load things into car.

https://www.google.com/search?clien...d=0x89c2f5fce5c6972f:0x269869848cef0b94,1,,,,

 

[launderess]

Tandil Ultra Plus Washpulver ingredients from Codecheck.com

ZEOLITE SODIUM CARBONATE PEROXIDE SODIUM ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATE TAED CITRIC ACID SODIUM SULFATE ALCOHOLS C10-C18 ETHOXYLATED SODIUM CARBONATE SODIUM ACRYLIC ACID/MA COPOLYMER SODIUM C12-18 ALKYL SULFATE SODIUM CITRATE TETRASODIUM ETIDRONATE POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL POLYESTER CELLULOSE GUM C.I. FLUORESCENT BRIGHTENER 260 PARFUM SODIUM SILICATE DIMETHICONE SUBTILISIN LIPASE GLYCOSIDASE COLOURANT COLOURANT GLYCODIDASE PECTATE LYASE GLYCOSIDASE GLYCOSIDASE

https://www.codecheck.info/p/hausha...l-voll/tandil-ultra-plus-vollwaschmittel.html

 

[launderess]

"If you’re trying to save money and who isn’t, you’re much better off buying store brands such as Aldi premium laundry detergent or Costco’s Kirkland is excellent.

Not everyone lives near an Aldi store.

Costco's products are only available at their stores or online but one must have a membership. Costco has been clamping down of late on non-members having access to their stores/online. So if one has to add cost of yearly membership Kirkland products like rest of shopping at Costco may not be good deal money wise.

Yes, one can find Kirkland or Aldi products online at say auction houses or discount closeout places. Such offerings are usually shelf pulls (old stock) or perhaps damaged. This and or from various legitimate or not third party sellers which include everyone from pawn shops to thieves selling stolen goods. In such cases one can never be entirely sure what one is getting. Oh and you'll have to pay shipping costs and liquid products don't always come through that process well.

All this and more compared to persons who simply can go local shop or supermarket and find Purex, A&H and other such offerings, three guesses which one wins...

Even if one goes with Amazon, Walmart, Target or other reputable online shop if there are issues with order or product they can and usually are addressed. Purchase a jug of Kirkland laundry detergent off HBid and it either arrives damaged or doesn't work as should, tant pis, you're out of luck.

 

[mark_wpduet]

we have a really nice Costco here.. And 2 Sam's Clubs...One of the Sam's is nice, the other one is really OLD and not as nice as the newer one. There are 3 Aldi's close to me, 2 in Lexington, one in Georgetown... Actually the Georgetown one is probably easiest to get to from my location..

Question: What are the expiration dates typically on, say the Costo Kirkland gynormous jug of laundry detergtent? Is it at least a year or more usually? I hope so. Also, on the Aldi website, they have several detergents. Blue, red and green...and on the blue bottle it stays something about Purex...I'm guessing that's Aldi's version of purex... the red is Aldi's version of Tide and the Green is Aldi's version of Gain? Am I correct with that? If that's true, then the blue bottle wouldn't have enymes? Since Purex itself doesn't

Scent Beeds... That's one thing I never got into. I just want laundry to smell clean... I'm not exactly thrilled with the way Purex smells but at least by the time everything is said and done... the smell is so faint and clothes just smell like clean laundry mostly... same with any other detergents I've used.

 

[launderess]

"...and on the blue bottle it stays something about Purex...I'm guessing that's Aldi's version of purex... the red is Aldi's version of Tide and the Green is Aldi's version of Gain? Am I correct with that? If that's true, then the blue bottle wouldn't have enymes? Since Purex itself doesn't"

IIRC and one can see on linked articles posted above "Purex" when used by Aldi only stating for comparison purposes and or otherwise Aldi's products have nothing to do with anything manufactured by Dial Corporation (now owned by Henkel).

This is standard copyright legal speak to avoid being sued by owner of said brand. Tandil does *NOT* want to give anyone impression their laundry products are made by or otherwise same as Purex.

 

[appnut]

Mark you guessed correct correlating jug colors to possible name brand imitation.

 

[mark_wpduet]

From that article above...

Reading the ingredients on the blue, green and red bottles of Tandil... It looks like the green and red bottles (which cost slightly more) are LOADED with enzymes... but the blue (Purex knockoff) doesn't have a huge ingredient list on the back and mentions nothing about enzymes... so my guess would be to avoid the blue bottle of you want better detergent... and go with green or red Tandil. I'm totally going to try both the green and the red.

 

[launderess]

"Compare to "X".."

With some blurb elsewhere such as what Aldi uses "This item is not manufactured or distributed by Procter and Gamble, the distributor and owner of the registered trademark Tide", is CYA legal speak that allows someone (in this case Aldi) to use Tide for comparison or illustration purposes only.

Aldi is in no way saying their product is related to P&G's Tide and so on for other products with registered trademarks.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Right...they are not saying it's related in any way to those manufacturers...but the ingredients list looks like they may have at least tried to get as close as possible.

 

[mark_wpduet]

I got a bottle of Green (Gain) Tandil today! It smells so good. I can't believe how it has a freaking list of enzymes in it...(Subtilisin, Alpha Amylase, Mannanase, Pectate Lyase, Cellulase) Hopefully I'll be OK with it.. measuring cap isn't the best but much MUCH better than the Purex invisible cap.

since I started using liquid...not long ago... the bottle of Purex I noticed didn't even have a safety seal...you just can open it in the store.. same with the Tandil... I guess since it's not a food item? It still bugs me..

 

[seedub]

Reply #41

I had never thought to ever go anywhere close to H-E-B laundry detergent although I lovelovelove their dish soap. Now that I have learned that H-E-B has thoughtfully formulated their detergent to work in Texas's hard water, I might give it a try.

 

[DADoES]

 
H-E-B Bravo detergent has always been touted (although perhaps not strongly advertised) as formulated for water conditions in the areas H-E-B serves.