How do you add your soap?

[MrX]

I use Persil Small and Mighty which now comes with a little detergent dispenser / measuring cap device. I use that and find it works very well.

It's a lot less messy than measuring liquid in the cap and then pouring it into the machine/drawer as the measuring device cleans itself out in the wash. So there's absolutely no mess at all or gooey dribbles down the bottle

 

[3beltwesty]

Here I wash in pure liquid soap since my new FL washer uses no water in the wash cycle.

 

[ronhic]

I've only owned front load machines with detergent drawers....so powdered detergent goes in the drawer....

 

....my aunt had an Australian made Hoover front loader without a dispenser so would load the clothes and then place her detergent in a mans hankerchief, twist the top and then place on top of the load - it keep the undisolved detergent off the washing and dispensed with the first tumble....It worked a treat.

 

[henry200]

exactly the way Mom did!

In the top loaders I've used I always added the detergent the way my mother did:  start the washer filling with HOT water, add the detergent and swish the agitator back and forth until the detergent is disolved then, unless it's going to be a hot wash, change to warm or cold water to finish filling as I add the clothes.   With my Neptune in the last house and a now a Duet here I use the dispenser and almost always wash in either warm or hot water.  

 

[lovestowash]

Doesn't it get lost in the holes?...

I never put detergent in an empty tub, for fear it is wasted...

For the Westy, I open the door during the fill and put it in...

For the Amana/SQ, I usually pour it under the water stream, either on the clothes, or in the tub with at least 2 inches of water...

Bleach is always added after a few minutes in the wash cycle for either machine...

I never use that dispenser on the Amana/SQ...

 

George

[this post was last edited: 5/6/2011-19:19]

 

[henry200]

I didn't pour in the detergent until there was a few inches of water in the tub and then pour it into the water stream.  Mom was convinced it would never fully disolve without her technique.

 

[laundromat]

I never use soap in any of my washers. I use detergent.

 

[strongenough78]

lovestowash......

I always thought that too! Although before I discovered this site, I didn't know there were 2 tubs in most washing machines, well, all of them now, but back then with the older models, I was always afraid that if the detergent went down the holes that it was gone for good. I guess now I don't have to fear that, but I still never put detergent into an empty tub. Force of habit I guess.

 

[tolivac]

For my WP-KN BD toploaders and the Hotpoint TL-just dump in the detergents-let the washer fill somewhat-then put in the clothes.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Despite my thinking that a Sears Kenmore 90-Series should be more was a "high-endy", my machine only has a Bleach Dispenser (not even anything in the center of the agitator for the Fabric Softener!)...!

So pouring it on the clothes while it's filling w/ the plastic scoop my detergent comes with (& trying not to get it wet as I put it back in the box, often finding the powder sticking to it) is usually the norm, unless I patiently wait for the machine to fill, then add it!

(Gotta get one of the new-fangled Automatic Dispensing jobs, that at least measure the Water Level for you...!)

-- Dave