Another Use For Vintage Powder Laundry Detergent With Phosphates

[launderess]

Well here is me trying to work through that huge box of All with the Three B's when it hit me; instead of adding a small scoop of STPP to liquid laundry detergents, just use the All instead.

Now before anyone calls me a Danish, here is the method to my madness.

Laundry boosters sold in the past and today contain often alkaline substances (washing soda, borax, phosphates, etc...) to help performance. Indeed much of what is being sold today by P&G, Henkel and others in those "stain release" pods is oxygen bleach along with washing soda and enzymes.

Condensed All (the condensed by the way one found out refers to phosphates) already has STPP along with borax and IIRC some soda along with surfactants and bluing agents. So there you are then.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Make sure of what you are using. There were years in certain parts of the country where ALL with the three Bs was made without phosphate. It was miserable stuff that left clothes harsh from the cheap caustic builders used in place of phosphates.

 

[launderess]

Righty-O

Advice taken but this is the real deal, loaded with phosphates.

Give away is that the wash water is clear instead of cloudy. Also the packet recommends against using packaged water softeners but to add more product instead if you have hard water.

Did some research and while "condensed" can refer to a product being concentrated in this instance Lever Bros means phosphates. Condensed phosphates are These have a lower alkalinity than TSP and include STPP and SHTP.

If one uses this All detergent on washing with any detergent residue it will froth up a storm in the Miele or Lavamat. That is those wonderful phosphates leaching out remaining residue from previous washes. OTOH if here is nothing to remove water is clear and nearly nil suds.

 

[jamiel]

Believe that the "condensed" labeling (as opposed to "Fluffy All") meant that the powder was not spray-dried or agglomerated (as was Tide/Rinso/Ajax/...). I've got a lot of warm memories picking up either the 9 pound 13 ounce box or the 20 pound "Home Laundry Size" when I was 10-15 years old for my mom--she used All about 75% of the time and Oxydol the rest. Hoisted the box onto the belt at Kroger; and always wondered if it would make it under the "bridge" on the check stand which held the change-maker and the trading stamp dispenser. Old-fashioned cash register...I think it was a Swede (Kroger used a different register than the other local store which used NCR). Consumer math...was it cheaper to buy the smaller or the larger box...always had to figure that out to tell my mother which to buy. Nice memory...

 

[jetcone]

Fascinating

Tell us more L !!

 

 

[2011hoovermatic]

Another phosphate question

I am looking to learn about the different phosphates, which one does SHTP stand for?
Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[launderess]

Here ya go

http://www.chemistry.co.nz/deterg_inorganic.htm