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optima

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It's been i while since we had a Detergent thread so i thought i would share with you what i've being buying lately. Has anyone used Time liquid dishwasher Gel, what a great performing product it is.

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Corrected!

Uploaded from iphone and it showed up right way up, stupid phone!

I too would love to see a twin tub with a drawer!

Matt
 
I cleared out my detergent stash on Tuesday and gave it all to my sister. She got a box of Henkel Persil, Polish Woolite for whites, Couple of bottles of Ariel Gel, small box of Persil non bio, Aldis Bio liquid, Ariel liquitabs and a small box of Persil Bio capsules. All taking up far too much space!!

I'm just left with Ariel Antibacterial professional+ powder, Ariel 3in1 pods and two bottles of Ariel clean and compact liquid.
 
Detergent stash

I really have a problem. I will try and upload some pics of my stash later
 
Downy?! :)

Where did you get the Downy? I thought they stopped doing the Downy fabric enhancers a few years back.

Also the Persil caps? Weren't this the format like 10+ years ago.

According to Wiki, they were going to ditch the Lenor brand completely and rename it Downy.
 
Amazed

I went down the detergent aisle at the grocer this morning. I am still amazed by the sheer number of non-HE detergents still on the shelves. Sure seems like there is a strong demand for TL friendly detergents. Makes me wonder how many people might have switched back to a TL machine after failing with a front loader.

But that is off topic.

Malcolm
 
Front loaders vs Top Loaders

I'm interested in the issue in the Front Load vs Top Load.

I wonder why the problem?

In the UK Front loaders have been common place for some time (a lot longer than the US) From what I understand, we almost completely bypassed TL going straight from Twin Tub to FL.

We don't seem to have the problems with FL that US seem have lots of issues with.

What could be the cause you think?

Sorry for hijacking thread - had to reply.
 
Top or front loader

I've often thought about the same thing especially regarding Australia, why were the water hungry top loaders more common in Australia than the front loaders we have here. Logically it doesn't make sense.
 
Top or front loader

I could take a few guesses, but they shouldn't be taken as absolutes.

- the most affordable machines in the 1940's, 50's and 60's....actually, always...were wringer machines.

- Front load Bendix automatics were available here from the late 1930's, but war interrupted and they were always hideously expensive.

- The Hoover Keymatic was available here. They were very complex machines and not known for strong overall reliability. I know 4 people who had them from new. My aunt, her neighbour, family friends and a school friend. My aunts was the only machine that didn't get replaced under 10 years.

- Poor reliability, and limited availability of other brands, can lead consumers to associate this with function rather than brand - just as we may refer to plastic containers as the 'Tupperware'.

- The removal of the progressive timer on top load automatics made them significantly cheaper than an identical machine that was fully automatic. This created an almost uniquely Australian machine - the semi-automatic where everything happened in the same tub, but the user had to move between various aspects of the cycle - fill (manual - you need to turn taps on and off), wash, spin.

- top load machines are generally cheaper to produce.

- 'Suds return' was standard or available as an option on most Australian made top load machines until the late 1980's at least. This enabled a user to say, wash the generally lightly soiled 'whites' in HOT water and reuse this for the next load. The machines had 2 drain hoses and would pump out the wash water into a suitably sized and plugged sink and continue the cycle using the second hose to pump rinse water down the sink bypass. During this time, the heavier solids would settle in the tub. For the next cycle...say 'coloureds', you would either select the appropriate cycle and the machine would suck the majority of the previous wash water out of the tub, or select 'Suds return', then select the correct cycle when the suds had moved back into the machine. Top up with detergent and the machine would add more water if required to bring it up to the selected load size.

- Using 'suds savers' reduced overall consumption of hot water, water in general and detergent. They siphon back about 95% of the drained and spun water. Assuming this is itself 85% of the wash water, we'll say 80%. On my mothers old machine, that was about 10 gallons. Topped up to 13 on another full cycle. So, for 2 full cycles without, you'd use 52 gallons (234 litres) ...reusing the wash water once, this would reduce to 42 gallons (189 litres). That's 95 litres per cycle. Virtually as water efficient as most 4.5kg front load machines that were available here before 1990.

- detergent usage reduces by about 25% across 2 loads.

- However, times are changing. Front load purchases have been increasing over the last 20 years. Partly brought on by some significant droughts that we have had.

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At the moment we are currently using Sunlight auto powder. got just under 1kg left so when its done i want to try ariel, which has now been launched to the south african market (hand wash powder, auto powder, auto liquid and power capsules). my mom's aunt says the liquid is brilliat. the ariel tag line is that it removes stains better than the best selling detergent in SA (which is omo and any south african can tell you that omo removes any stain).
on stains we use GNLD super 10 and the GNLD oxygen bleach powder for very tough stains. I found Bright White whitening tablets at a china mall in march so i bought some and they seem to do a very good job in the whites even on a 30 degree cycle. i used to use skip perfet white powder for whites but they took it off the market so now i just use whatever i have. dont use fabric softener.
and we only use finish all in 1 power ball tablets in the dishwasher because my dad has a friend who gets them for a third of hat the super markets sell them for.
 
This is what I currently use:

I have Persil Color Megaperls in the AutoDose powder container and OMO Liquid with a touch of Comfort in the container for liquids.

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