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Well, I found my 28 lb bucket of Costco "Institutional Laundry Detergent" in the workshop. It looks like I maybe used it once. However the label says it's good for sopping up oil stains so that's where I'll be using it next.

There are NO ingredients listed on rectangular product bucket type container. I was able to find a PDF of the ingredients online, though. The product number is 119903. Click on link below for the ingredient listing. I was not able to find proportions on that PDF. However, the Material Safety Data Sheet does list the Sodium Carbonate at between 30% and 70%.

Other ingredients listed in the link below include:

Kirkland Signature Heavy Duty Laundry Detergent, #119903

CAS Number Ingredient (Chemical Name) Role (Function)
497-19-8 Sodium Carbonate pH regulating agent
7647-14-5 Sodium Chloride Viscosity modifier
149458-07-1 Fatty acids, C12-18, Me esters, sulfonated, sodium salts Surfactant
7732-18-5 Water Solvent
1344-09-8 Sodium Silicate Chelating agent
68989-22-0 Zeolites, NaA Chelating agent
68479-09-4 2-Propenoic acid, telomer with sodiumsulfite (1:1), sodium salt Opacifier
68131-39-5 Alcohols, C12-15, Ethoxylated Surfactant
9004-32-4 Cellulose Gum Antiredeposition agent, Viscosity modifier
16090-02-1 CI Fluorescent Brightner 71, 244, 250, or260 Brightener
5989-27-5 Limonene Fragrance

Sorry about the formatting. It would take forever to format it here; you can see the formatted table of ingredients in the following link.

https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9178#1
 
Kirkland detergent,,,

The first and last time i tried it I ended up at the Doctors office getting a Kenalog shot for the worst contact dermatitis, That stuff broke me out from head to toe,
 
I cannot comment on Hans' bad experience, but if you look at the ingredient listing linked above, you'll see that the Kirkland institutional laundry detergent has far fewer chemical additives than many of the other products listed. Its only fragrance chemical is Limonene, which has been in use for ages and found to have low toxicity. The other ingredients are also relatively common.

In particular the scented products have a long list of fragrance additives. The high sodium carbonate component (30-70%) of the Kirkland institutional product would be enough to put me off it. Not for health reasons, but to prevent hard water precipitates in the washer.
[this post was last edited: 7/10/2021-23:50]
 
I did find a use for the Kirkland Institutional Laundry Detergent the other day. I have a shredding machine that I use to process ivy trimmings about every year or so. The trimmings then go into the compost bins; it makes for great compost.

Anyway, I noticed the collection bag had sprung a hole, maybe an inch or two diameter. Too many shredings were getting through that hole. And the bad itself was filthy. I wanted to bring it in to sew up the hole on the Singer, but not in that condition.

So I got a three gallon bucket, filled it with about 1.5 gallons water, added a scoop of the Kirkland, tossed in the collection bag, swirled it around with a stick, and let it sit a bit.

The water turned jet black. I had to change the water for three or more rinses to get rid of the black (it's a white synthetic bag). Hung it on the line overnight, and sewed it up the next day.

The black wash water and rinses went down the drain.

Oh, and the collection bag still has stains... not gonna worry about that. It may have only a few years life left, at which point I'll need to replace it.
 
I like Kirkland. It cleans well, rinses out easy and is good value. However, I also add either Clorox or Borax. Kirkland isn’t heavily perfumed. My clothes smell clean and fresh and they are not hard and scratchy.
 
I like Kirkland. It cleans well, rinses out easy and is good value. However, I also add either Clorox or Borax. Kirkland isn’t heavily perfumed. My clothes smell clean and fresh and they are not hard and scratchy. However, I also use Cold Power, Softly and Lovables.
 
I have never used the el cheapo or most of the other popular detergents. They are too heavily perfumed for my liking. Cold Power has a nice scent that tends to rinse out so it isn't overpowering. The strongest scented detergent I use is 'Lovables.' It is specifically designed for black and dark clothes. However, it is also more tolerable than the Radiant version of the same type of detergent. I find Radiant particularly offensive on my olfactory senses and can smell that detergent on other people from miles away. Softly for woolies and delicates is another product I use, which I find works really well. I've tried Tide liquid from Costco, but wasn't that fussed with it. Occasionally I get Woolite shipped from the USA Foods store.

Aldi detergent is supposed to be quite effective and good value for money. A few years back I tried the Trimat something or other from Aldi and it wasn't too bad. The dollar shops used to have some US and Canadian detergents on their shelves and I remember buying detergent sheets from Canada, which smelt quite nice and seemed to do a good job. However, once gone from the shelves, they never materialised again.

I machine dry most of my clothes and only line-dry items that aren't suitable for that. Beach and pool towels go on the line, but all my bath towels go in the dryer. I find that towels feel softer when they are machine dried and most of my other clothes come out softer and with fewer wrinkles when they go through the dryer. At home I process a lot of laundry for between six and more people; and line drying just isn't an option with that much laundry.
 
I always seem to pick up at least one bottle of

LAs totally awesome laundry detergent, and stay remover whenever I see a bottle I know that the reject shop has had let me see Vietnamese detergent, Czechoslovakian detergent Russian detergent and I think even possibly Chinese detergent
 
I know this thread is a couple of years old

But Rapunzel, I wanted to add the one detergent I honestly can’t really stand is the extra large box of ALDI Trimat detergent, It’s probably the only detergent I currently know of that actually makes me cough simply because of how goddamn strong the fragrance is
 
I did my monthly (approx) Costco trip this morning. In addition to chicken pot pies, picked up a bucket of Kirkland laundry powder. It will probably wind up sitting next to the still almost full bucket in the workshop. However I do have some concrete flooring back there that needs to be cleaned....

Starting to realize I got way too many toys. Might be time to start planning a downsize...
 

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