Bounce - is there any real point?

[whirlykenmore78]

Bounce works fine.

I just use 1/2 sheet in full loads and 1/4 in smaller loads. No gummed up dryers here. I do use liquid softener for some items but again only use 1/2 the amount and there is no waterproofing or increased drying time.

Ecolab has come up with a non-residual softener called Clearly Soft to address the issuse of film in dryers and dingy waterproof film on towels for commercial laundries. I had some samples of the stuff at one point and towels and clothing came out the best ever. I don't know of any household softener with the same properties.
WK78

 

[chris74]

Isn't Ecolab...

...made by German Persil manufacturer Henkel, Düsseldorf?

 

[aegokocarat]

We have a heat pump dryer and mum uses dryer sheets and has had no problems, i have a vented candy dryer which is a sensor dryer, and i have had no problems either, even my zanussi condenser dryer has no problems with them, but on saying that, i havent used them in my dryers for a while but mum uses them in the heat pump dryer occasionally, so i cant really comment on gunked up sensors.

 

[chris74]

They sell...

...a special fabric softener over here, translated called dryer freshness. Seems to be more watery so that it doesn't get burned in the dryer...

 

[rolls_rapide]

I haven't seen Bounce for years. Didn't the likes of Hoover and Zanussi have a complimentary pack in every new dryer, like they did with washing machines with Ariel powder and the Fairy Non-Bio liquid 'bubble'?

My God, how times change! Now you get just about zilch with any machine!

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Rolls Rapide: I know in UK Bounce switched to the name of Lenor but does still exist, many on ebay.

Said this, my family always used dryer sheets, I'm 23 years old and since I can remember our dryers always ran great and absolutely no residues from them, we mostly used Bounce but never missed generic brands as well at times...
I continuosly using dryer sheets and sometimes even 2 or 3 sheets per load with certain brands... and here not, no residues at all, vent takes a  clean and check after 2 years or so and what we always find it's nothing than a normal very, very  thin dust/lint build up.....
Filter is always like new as well.......
I mostly use dryer sheets because IMO they softens best and  laundry get more scent, I never experienced partial softening also.... Just once a brand I can't recall used to leave stains and strips to dark clothes and didn't soften well, I discovered then it was a brand "made in china" who knows what they did put in! I got it on ebay! I can't recall the brand...
I also use liquid softeners at times but I prefer dryer sheets.....

Now, looks like some people gets a build up and residues others not...me absolutely not.....I can't really figure out why, some people also talks/warn and quit just because they heard of it  from others even if never experienced it themselves, anyway it's a rumour that goes along since they came out,  I've read  that many people/repair man etc. also give the fault to them for dryer fires and say they can cause dryer fires due to lint build up, you know what I think? Bullshits! I think primar cause of dryer fires is the negligence of owners not cleaning vent on a regualr basis!  Anyway with me never a problem......just get out of china shit ones, Lenor dryer sheets in UK are the exact thing of Bounce, they're made in Canada too like most (almost all) of P&G's dryer  sheets....
But they changed bounce and they're not like before, the ones I like and buy mostly are: Gain, Kirkland, Suavitel, Downy, Snuggle...