lordkenmore
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Historically, I've preferred powder detergents. I cracked here that if powder was good enough for my mother's Kenmore, it's good enough for the BOL WP DD I'm using. But I've shifted to liquids in recent history for the simple reason that there are more choices on the market, and a better shot of getting a good deal. But I decided I'd treat myself to a small box of powder a while back. And so I got a small box of Tide Original Powder. (Which is not "original" compared to the first Tide ever made...or even the Tide they made when I was young--but that's another story, I guess!)
It's been interesting using this Tide. Some observations:
1. I can't really tell if it cleans better than liquid, which some have argued here in the past. BUT my laundry needs are pretty simple--more freshening than dealing with nightmare stains.
2. I CAN say, however, the scent is more more bearable than any conventional liquid I've tried. I really don't like the scent particularly--for that matter, I prefer unscented these days--but this detergent's scent is very restrained after the dryer. There is scent, but it's more like "put your face against a clean shirt and smell scent" than "you can smell it from across the house." I'll be making sure I keep at least some of this detergent in reserve for summer to see what happens when laundry is dried on a line.
3. It seems like this Tide is easier to rinse than Tide or Persil liquid detergents I've used recently. I'm also thinking it may be better than some powders I've used in the past...although it's been so long since I used powder detergent I can't say for sure.
Nothing I say above is very newsworthy--a lot is what I'd have hypothesized. My only real question was whether I could live with the scent (even though I guessed it would likely be more restrained than, say, Persil liquid)--although this is a matter of having to come to prefer unscented detergent.
It's been interesting using this Tide. Some observations:
1. I can't really tell if it cleans better than liquid, which some have argued here in the past. BUT my laundry needs are pretty simple--more freshening than dealing with nightmare stains.
2. I CAN say, however, the scent is more more bearable than any conventional liquid I've tried. I really don't like the scent particularly--for that matter, I prefer unscented these days--but this detergent's scent is very restrained after the dryer. There is scent, but it's more like "put your face against a clean shirt and smell scent" than "you can smell it from across the house." I'll be making sure I keep at least some of this detergent in reserve for summer to see what happens when laundry is dried on a line.
3. It seems like this Tide is easier to rinse than Tide or Persil liquid detergents I've used recently. I'm also thinking it may be better than some powders I've used in the past...although it's been so long since I used powder detergent I can't say for sure.
Nothing I say above is very newsworthy--a lot is what I'd have hypothesized. My only real question was whether I could live with the scent (even though I guessed it would likely be more restrained than, say, Persil liquid)--although this is a matter of having to come to prefer unscented detergent.
