The notices in the Tide section of my grocery store's shelves announcing that "Tide Pods Are Coming!" worked, as I picked up a 14-pod bag of them Thursday. I chose the Spring Meadow scent.
1) A bag of 14 cost $4.99, which works out to....what, about $.35 per load? Not cheap, at a any rate.
2) They are certainly convenient. The package says to use one for most loads; two for heavily-soiled loads. You toss them directly into the drum of a front-loader.
3) I've washed four loads with them (one pod each) and the pods have dissolved quickly. They did not migrate to the front of the tub and hang themselves up on the door seal. All four loads were lightly-to-moderately soiled, and all items emerged clean in the Normal cycle using warm, very soft water.
4) I was hoping this might be Tide's clean-rinsing product. Wrong! The suds were just as tenacious as other liquid Tide products. On that subject: I recently switched over to powdered Tide HE with Bleach Alternative as my daily driver, and have found it rinses out a bit better than the liquid version.
5) I have a huge load of highly stained whites to wash this afternoon. That should really test its cleaning power. I'm only going to use one pod, as I use a similarly small dose of powdered UK Persil Bio for such loads with excellent results---and no suds in the final rinse!
6) Stench alert: These pods must be half perfume. Cheap, sticky-icky-god-awful perfume. And it doesn't dissipate in the dryer. My bed sheets smelled for two days. To make matters worse, the scent morphed a bit as it aged, which made my bedroom smell like there was a trash can full of warm, unrinsed beer cans in it.
7) I probably won't buy these again; but I wanted to give them a try.
1) A bag of 14 cost $4.99, which works out to....what, about $.35 per load? Not cheap, at a any rate.
2) They are certainly convenient. The package says to use one for most loads; two for heavily-soiled loads. You toss them directly into the drum of a front-loader.
3) I've washed four loads with them (one pod each) and the pods have dissolved quickly. They did not migrate to the front of the tub and hang themselves up on the door seal. All four loads were lightly-to-moderately soiled, and all items emerged clean in the Normal cycle using warm, very soft water.
4) I was hoping this might be Tide's clean-rinsing product. Wrong! The suds were just as tenacious as other liquid Tide products. On that subject: I recently switched over to powdered Tide HE with Bleach Alternative as my daily driver, and have found it rinses out a bit better than the liquid version.
5) I have a huge load of highly stained whites to wash this afternoon. That should really test its cleaning power. I'm only going to use one pod, as I use a similarly small dose of powdered UK Persil Bio for such loads with excellent results---and no suds in the final rinse!
6) Stench alert: These pods must be half perfume. Cheap, sticky-icky-god-awful perfume. And it doesn't dissipate in the dryer. My bed sheets smelled for two days. To make matters worse, the scent morphed a bit as it aged, which made my bedroom smell like there was a trash can full of warm, unrinsed beer cans in it.
7) I probably won't buy these again; but I wanted to give them a try.
