FOCA

[pierreandreply4]

you could always use it in your fl washer but only use 1 tea spoon of it that should not cause lots of suds

 

[abcomatic]

Kevin

Kevin, I have soft water but add borax to the Easy as well as the Foca. It is blue and the whites turned out super! Hung it all on the clothesline and everything looks wonderful.
I am glad you recommended it. Happy washing. Gary

 

[lordkenmore]

I got some Foca yesterday. It's the non-phosphate version--I think phosphates in detergent is illegal in WA. So far, I haven't been able to fully test. Plus it's hard for me to test with a torture load--most of my laundry is light dirt/freshening up which, to be fair, can be handled by almost anything. But I was impressed by the way it does seem to rinse easily. Deep rinse looked amazingly clear compared to some detergents. We'll see how I like it in a week or two.

 

At least, I gave the clerk who rang me up a new experience. Apparently I am the first person ever to buy Foca in her line. She was even asking me about it. She's seen it in the laundry aisle, and wondered about it. Unfortunately I couldn't really tell her anything except I'd heard good things about the brand.

 

[DADoES]

 
I've used it several times recently in my IWL12.  My water tends toward the hard side.  Takes a full measured cup or even 1-1/8 cups to get an acceptable "slippery" feel to the water for a FULL load.  Smaller loads take accordingly less, down to 1/4 or 3/8 cup at the lowest level.  Dosing can be tricky with oversudsing and cavitating the pump during EcoActive, so I dose less at first and add more for the agitated wash.

 

[whirlcool]

We have pretty hard water, and all we use to get a full head of suds going is 125ml, which is less than 1/4 cup. The water is slippery and the clothes come out clean. This is in our WP TL Super Capacity machine.

 

[DADoES]

Volume measurement

 
1 ml (milliliter) = 1 cc (cubic centimeter)
29.6 cc = 1 oz. = 1/8 cup
So, 125 ml = 125 cc = 4.22 oz, which is slightly more than 1/2 cup.

Most recent full load a couple days ago (mine: 13 shirts, 1 boxers, 1 underwear + granny: 4 shirts, 2 capri slacks) I got no suds with 1 cup (8 oz or 236 ml), water just on the edge of feeling slippery.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Every time I see the name of this detergent, I think of the wonderful film "Shirley Valentine" about a British woman who goes to Greece and meets a boat owner who makes himself available, in every sense of the word, to single women. His hilarious line, delivered with heavy Greek accent is, "Boat is boat. Fuck is fuck." except the "U' sounds like an "O."

The movie (1989) had many funny lines:

Jane divorced her husband. I never knew him, it was before I met her. Apparently she came home from work unexpectedly one morning and found him in bed with the milkman. Honest to God, the milkman ! But from that day forward I've noticed she never takes milk in her tea.

Aw God, oh, Jane, I look like the back end of a tram smash.

 

[whirlcool]

I use one of those little Persil balls that came on the top of liquid Persil bottle with measuring marks on them. That ball is small so I didn't think that 125ML would make even 1/4 cup. So I filled the Persil ball up to 125Ml and then transferred it to a regular measuring cup. Guess what? It DID come to just over 1/2 cup of detergent! I was shocked, I didn't think it was that much, but I guess it is.

Thanks Glenn for doing that conversion for me.

 

[foraloysius]

I'm using Foca right now in my LG toploader. I bought a small bag in Portland. I'm using scalding hot water and about 150 ml of Foca on an XL load, but I guess that would be half full of a regular toploader. It's not foaming very much, but I think that is the different wash action of this wash plate machine.

 

[foraloysius]

Yesterday's pictures

The LG and the little bag of Foca

 

[foraloysius]

Foca on top of the laundry

 

[foraloysius]

A thin layer of suds

 

[vintagekitchen]

Wash Plate Machine...

This is what I have as well. You get better results, and a good suds cake, if you let the machine run with just water and detergent, no clothes, for 3 or 4 minutes before adding the clothes...

 

[foraloysius]

I wasn't very happy with the results, but I blame the washer for that. I'm not impressed by the wash action of the LG. A regular toploader with an agitator is way more effective in cleaning laundry IMHO. I used a regular cycle with soak pauses. A rag didn't come totally clean. In my Miele it gets cleaner. And when I did laundry in Eddy's toploaders I also got better results. With another detergent than Foca I might even had worse results.

 

[vintagekitchen]

Never had any experience with the LG, but I've always been happy with the wash plate action in twin tub washers..