Anybody tried Vaska laundry detergent?

[sudsmaster]

It's an herbal based liquid detergent ("Herbatergent") that's been making the rounds. I saw a big jug of it for sale at Sam's Club today. Also have read some news article about it.

The jug claims that it softens as it cleans. But no detailed ingredient list that I could find, other than that it's got a "light lavender" scent. It's also supposed to be low-sudsing and hence ok for front loaders.

It's a local (Berkeley) based company so I'm a bit intrigued.

http://www.vaskahome.com/products/herbatergent

 

[launderess]

Contents Are Listed On Bottle

Knock yourself out:

Ingredients: Plant based surfactants, vegtable conditioner, water-soluble degreasing agent, lavender, extract, lavender scent, and filtered water.

Does Not Contain: Nonylphenol ethoxylates, chlorine, phosphates, alcohol, optical brightners, animal products, EPA priority pollutants, or dyes.

Cleans "ok" but without enzymes does not shift stains well. Also tends to be highly sudsing and difficult to rinse out when used in the Miele. Suppose careful dosing would solve this problem

The lavender scent is faint after laundry come out of washer, almost gone when laundry is dry.

Only purchased the stuff because one had a coupon for $5 and it was on sale for half off ($7), otherwise wouldn't have bothered. Won't purchase again once this bottle is gone.

Rather ordinary and same as the other lot of "designer" green laundry products. Other reviews are over on THS's laundry section.

 

[jetcone]

See the green propogande here??

Lets analyse the labelling , it stated "Does Not Contain: Nonylphenol ethoxylates, chlorine, phosphates, alcohol, optical brightners, animal products, EPA priority pollutants, or dyes."

A) "Nonylphenol ethoxylates" (sounds deadly,huh?) are non ionic surfactants ,are totally biodegradable and have never had adverse affects on water quality, aquatic life, and embrionic rats.
B) I have never seen "EPA priority pollutants" in any detergent since the 1940's when they were using a Benzene based surfactant that was safe in house but degraded to Benzene in the environment.
C) "Animal products" I would guess means no animal parts or beef tallow, pork tallow?? If you've eaten an Almond Cookie in Chinatown you have eaten pork lard!

Talk about HYPE with a capital "H"