ensueno Fabric Softener - I'm not sure about it

[mark_wpduet]

I don't use a LOT of fabric softener. It takes me a long time to go through a bottle. I finally finished my small bottle of Downy. I didn't like the smell. When I made a grocery list I put "generic fabric softener"... what do they do? They go to the dollar store and buy this stuff. I've never heard of it.

I don't like the bottle itself...so what I did was rinsed out the Downy bottle and poured this in that, but then the smell was so freaking strong that I added distilled water to dilute it down even more.

Here's the thing about this stuff: The smell is overpowering like someone spilled a bottle of cheap perfume... I just did a load of mixed colors yesterday and put a wee bit of this in the fabric softener dispenser. When the load was done, all I could smell was this stuff. Once the clothes were dried and put away, it leaves a lingering faint smell that's actually not bad at all. It surprised me because smelling this straight out of the bottle is nasty. I can't imagine using this full strength and the recommended amount.

Has anyone ever used this?

 

[wiskybill]

I looked at this

just yesterday and thought the same thing, overpowering.

There was also a version for baby clothes that smelled like baby powder.

This is my softener of choice. Light scent and made locally here in Ohio.[this post was last edited: 8/13/2020-18:31]

https://consumerproducts.malcopro.com/nuSoft__Fabric_Softener-list.aspx

 

[DADoES]

 
It's a Mexican product.  Package says "over 35 days of Fresh Fragrance" so there's no reason for surprise at the intense scent. 

Ensueño Fabric Softener

AlEn USA is the North American subsidiary of one of the most recognized companies in the household cleaning products category in Mexico ...

 

[mark_wpduet]

When at Kroger

to me, the best smelling fabric sofener is the store brand. It smells like Downy used to long ago.

I'm going to use this stuff because it's really not that bad when all is said and done. I think maybe because of the dilution. But when this bottle is gone, which may be 2 years or more, I'm not getting it again unless I end up liking it.

Where do you buy the nusoft? Online?

 

[launderess]

It does seem as if the Mexican laundry market does cater to those wanting highly scented products. IIRC this is one reason behind P&G among others putting out such strongly scented offerings for USA laundry market; the large and growing Latino-Hispanic population.

Only the French seem to love strongly scented laundry products more IMHO. Have been the length and breadth of many shops in France over the years, and have yet to find "unscented" laundry products. Even barely scented would be welcomed, over the often powerfully fragrant offerings.

 

[thomasortega]

Ensueño = Ennightmare LOL

I remember when I just moved here and I wanted to try all different brands and versions....

I'm so glad I bought a very small bottle, still in Dallas...

OMFG, that thing was AWFUL. LOL

 

[rp2813]

My FWB, who is a fabric softener aficionado, loves Enseuno -- the scent that comes in the purple bottle.  He was bummed when he couldn't find it at the pack-your-own supermarket, which carries a wide range of products that appeal to the Hispanic shopper, so he settled for the same Ensueno item pictured in the OP.  That stuff is strong.  Whenever he brings his laundry over here, the whole back yard smells like Ensueno while the dryer is running.  It vents onto the driveway but the scent can really travel.

 

Since he likes his towels laundered with softener,  I've started to use it when I wash my own towels.  I have a small Ensueno container that he filled from his large one, but oddly, I can use two of those small caps full of it in the Neptune and the scent in the damp towels is mild at best, and barely detectable after going through the dryer. 

 

[thomasortega]

If you select extra rinse in your neptune it rinses once more AFTER the fabric softener.

 

[rp2813]

I never use an extra rinse in the Neptune.  It already does three of them, and that's plenty for me.

 

My FWB does use the extra rinse, and as stated above, the scent is noticeable.  I was by the machine when it was filling for the extra rinse and heard it routing water through the FS dispenser.  Why would it do this a second time if it had already done it on the previous rinse?

 

I have the stacked Neptunes model MLG2000AWW.

 

[thomasortega]

I have the exact same neptune.

Yes, it's actually brilliant that it does that. It helps rinsing off the dispenser. It's already empty anyway so, why not flush it one more time only to make sure all the FS was flushed.

 

[mark_wpduet]

The best way

I can describe it is that you can't go by the strong sickening smell from the bottle. Even when I diluted it with distilled water, based on the smell, you couldn't tell it was diluted at all. And I diluted it with quite a bit of distilled water. Anyway, it's the faint smell that it leaves behind that's really not that bad at all. As long as you don't overdo it with this stuff, as I only used like 1/2 the amount in my duet FB dispenser..

Like when I pulled the clothes out of the washer to transfer them to dryer, I thought I'm going to have to throw this stuff away. UGH. I dried the clothes, folded them. Later, when I would walk out to my garage back through the laundry room, I thought, wow, the laundry room smells really good (this was hours later)...It was like this faint clean smell and not that smell that I smelled from the bottle. I went back to smell the clothes after they had been hanging in the closet a few hours later and to me it was just a faint clean scent and not that strong overpowering scent I smelled from the bottle.

 

[mrboilwash]

An extra rinse after the FS-rinse actually doesn`t do much.
The positively charged FS adheres to the negatively charged clothes and cannot be removed by rinsing alone. Well, at least most of it would survive a further rinse.

Mark, I would be very cautious about diluting a water based product with water.
The preservatives are calculated to protect the product from spoilage at it`s original strength only. Any responsible manufacturer wouldn`t put more of these poisonous biozides into their products than absolutely necessary, so if the preservatives get diluted they might fail to do their job within a couple of weeks only. Using distilled water is better than tab water because it contains less microbes but it still alters the perishable ingredients to preservatives ratio in an unfavorable way. Might be better to just use less FS instead.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Gotcha

Luckily, most of the undiluted product is still left in its original bottle. I just poured some in the downy bottle along with distilled. Once I use what's in the Downy bottle I'll just use it undiluted, but only a tbs or so.

 

[ozzie908]

OK So could the extra rinse

Also take in fabric softener because the machine may have skipped it the first time? So that if you selected ex rinse it left the FS till last like it should do????

I think I am over thinking it .....lol

Austin

 

[rp2813]

Austin, that was my assumption.  I've noticed FS residue in the bottom of the dispenser reservoir when emptying the washer, and this would seem to support the theory that the extra rinse option triggers a delay in routing the fill water through the FS dispenser until commencement of the extra rinse.  One would think that even with the thickest of softener solutions, a second flush of the dispenser would eliminate any trace of softener in the reservoir.

 

BUT -- the use and care guide states this about the extra rinse option: 

 

Provides an additional rinse near the end of the cycle to more completely remove laundry additives, perfumes, etc.

 

How flushing the softener dispenser in advance of the extra rinse would help to remove softener more completely as opposed to adding a small amount more of it, I don't know, but that statement seems to indicate that the FS is dispensed in advance of the third regular rinse and not during the extra rinse.

 

This is still odd, since as I stated above, my FWB always opts for extra rinse, and I generally never do, yet his laundry produces a much stronger scent.  He must be using a lot more FS and not diluting it.