Finish 'In Wash' Dishwasher Cleaner

[rolls_rapide]

Recently I saw an advert on television for this.

I was wondering how it worked... wouldn't it be flushed away on a programme with integral pre-rinse? How would an acidic component react with alkaline detergent?

It appears it is another of Reckitt Benckiser's 'pull the wool over folks' eyes' jobs. Not quite what you would presume it was.

Ingredients apparently on the pack: 5 - 15% polycarboxylates, <5% nonionic surfactants, enzymes (subtilisin), fragrances.

Ingredients from RB's German site:

SODIUM CARBONATE

SODIUM CITRATE

2- propenoic acid, homopolymer, sodium salt, sulfonated

CETEARETH-25

AQUA

POLYVINYLALCOHOL

SODIUM SULFATE

SODIUM CHLORIDE

DIMETHICONE

PROPYLENE GLYCOL

SUBTILISIN

TITANIUM DIOXIDE

Primary alcohol ethoxylate

SODIUM SILICATE

DENATONIUM BENZOATE

PARFUM

COLORANT

So... it's basically just an in-wash booster detergent. Not a replacement for the citric acid/sulphamic acid liquid dishwasher cleaners. Ho-hum.

 

[liamy1]

I "think" but not 100%

Fairy's dishwasher cleaner (which has always been tablet form, unlike Finishes which was the square bottle of liquid) has gone the same way - it is now a "in wash" dishwasher cleaner.

My first thought was - surely the chemicals in dishwasher cleaner are different so do I want it in the same load as my dishes? I wasnt as thorough as you and didn't check the ingredients, but your post now explains why it's an in-load thing.

Kudos to Finish doing away with single use plastic bottles, but is definitely a pull the wool over eyes gig; now selling detergent booster as a dishwasher cleaner -

Saw similar as I was pointing out to my Mum who was buying a box of washing machine cleaner that ingredient wise, I couldn't see much difference to a washing POWDER, and explaining that such a product should never be needed.

((Being one of frugality, she had previously always used powder detergents, but partner insists on pod/capsule detergent. Only saving grace is that she has always and still does use hot and boil washes when doing laundry, so her machine is surviving relatively unscathed)).

 

[rolls_rapide]

Hmm. I'm not convinced by those 'Dr Beckmann' style of washing machine cleaners either - they just seem to be powder detergents. I think they must be for those folks who continually use the liquid and pod laundry detergents, and never usually touch the powders.

I can't say that I am impressed by the idea of Finish In-Wash Cleaner. You'd probably get just as good a result, by placing two reasonably performing cheap supermarket tabs in the machine. Preferably tabs which don't over foam.

 

[liamy1]

I can't say that I am impressed by the idea of Finish In

Nope, Can't say I am either; for both the in wash dishwasher cleaner products and washing machine cleaner products - they strike me the same as stain remover products like Vanish etc, the same ingredients as the main product (albeit even if in higher concentrations), effectively just something extra to sell people.

What a shame.

I think I may have in the past used the tiniest squirt of bleach in the dishwasher to clean it before now, that's my main product I use when running an empty hot wash on the washer (I don't really need to, but still do for some reason,) and dishwasher detergents were chlorine based before enzymes became the main stay, so figured it couldn't hurt.

 

[vacerator]

Waste of money

unless you have a plastic DW tub that is stained with tomato sauce, or other food.
The Finish red powerball tabs do a great job, along with A gel in the pre-wash dispensor such as cascade lemon, or one with some chlorine bleach.

 

[logixx]

Our consumer magazine tested the Sonat version of these in-wash cleaners and said that it actually decreased the cleaning efficiency of the detergent.

 

[liamy1]

decreased the cleaning efficiency of the detergent.

No way, that's shocking

Although can't say I'm surprised.