Found a new detergent! Boardwalk Huracan 40

[superocd]

My Sears Plus detergent was running low so I bought some new detergent. Since my local Sears never seems to have the Plus in stock and I can't seem to find a good, decent powder unless I go 30 miles to Costco for my other favorite (Kirkland powder) I figured that this time around I wanted to try something different.

On Amazon I found commercial-grade detergent. Boardwalk Huracan 40 for $32 shipped. 40 pounds of heavy-duty powder. It's low-sudsing too. Actually, I've done ten loads and haven't seen so much as a bubble (even after opening the door) so it's definitely OK to use in HE machines. It will leave the skeptics dumbfounded because they won't see any suds but everything will come out super clean.

All you need are two rounded-off tablespoons (three for heavy-duty loads). I don't have hard water but for those that do this is designed just for you. I believe that this contains phosphates (as most commercial detergents do) so this will aid in better soil removal. Phosphates are not banned (yet) from commercial detergents because their washing requirements are a lot more serious.

There is a very slight lemon-like scent but after the washload is finished the clothes and the washer just have a clean, fresh smell.

I highly recommend this. It's a steal at $30 and should last several months to a year or two, even a large family. It's just me and my better half so it looks like I won't be buying detergent any time soon.

 

[gansky1]

STPP isn't listed on the MSDS sheet.   I have a pail of this and have been using it for some laundry for a while now.  While it is a decent cleaning detergent, it's not great with oils and grease.  It performs a bit better if I add a tsp or two of STPP.

 

Almost never a bubble anywhere, clean rinsing, too.

 

 The <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alkylphenol Ethoxylate is a surfactant, usually found in cleaning products and laundry detergents that can have toxic effects in the environment.  IIRC, CR nixed Sears detergents from their tests and ratings a few years ago because of this ingredient.    The EU has effectively eliminated these chemical chains from their products.  If I lived on septic system, I would try to avoid their use.</span>

http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Nonylphenol+and+Nonylphenol+Ethoxylates

 

[joeypete]

Check out this screaming deal....

Walmart.com LMAO.

 

[launderess]

Good old fashioned industrial laundry powder detergent

Highly base (pH 10.0 -11.1) and with some nasty things (sodium metasilicate is actually a stronger base than washing soda),

This stuff works the way detergents did long before enzymes and other fancy additives. Surfactants provide the detergency (replacing soaps) and the high pH/alkalinity helps dissolve fats, oils and greasy soils by a process that basically turns them into a type of soap.

Alkylphenol Ethoxylate (NPE) is a type of non-ionic surfactant which by nature is low on suds (Fresh Start detergent was mostly non-inonic surfactants and phosphates though later versions did add proteinase), but is some pretty nasty stuff and banned in the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonylphenol

You see empty pails of this detergent outside with the rubbish in front of dry cleaners/laundries all over NYC. The stuff is relatively cheap (compared to say Tide) and gets the job done with the short cycles many laundries use.