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Interesting - haven't seen this at the Fairfield County, CT Target stores, but then all that they have in my locals are Tide, Persil, Gain, All, Dreft and Arm & Hammer. What I have seen in WalMart and several Latino supermarket are Zote soap flakes. Haven't tried those yet.
 
It does seem as if not all Target stores carry everything supposedly available.

You look something up on Google, say a detergent, and it comes up as available at Target. Upon arrival and looking around cannot find and am told when inquiring from staff "we don't carry it at this store...".

Wanted to try P&G Tide's latest flavor "Zero" detergents. They are supposed to be at Target, but haven't seen at a single store in area. Ditto for Tide "Ultra Stain Release" free and gentle.
 
Now where were we in the first place?

If cannot find on locally Ingredients Matter seems to offer mail order.

https://www.ingredientsmatterclean.com

Marketing babble...

https://www.ingredientsmatterclean....MI15zgzK-P8AIVDvnICh3hyQAoEAAYASABEgLGLfD_BwE

Of course there's where the world shops, Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/Ingredients-Matter-Laundry-Soap-Powder/dp/B07W633DFT

EWG gives high marks across the line....

https://www.ewg.org/guides/brand/15193-IngredientsMatter/

Stuff contains five (6) enzymes, coconut soap, glycerin, water, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride (salt), and calcium chloride.

https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners/6879-IngredientsMatterLaundrySoapPowderFragranceFree/

Why coconut soap you say? Well there has been a hate in certain quarters going on about palm oil which has been used to make soaps and later detergents for ages.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/palm-oil

Coconut oil in whole or part has been used to make soaps for all purposes including laundry for ages. Coconut oil based soaps perform better in hard or even sea water than those made from wholly palm and some other oils. Ships often were supplied with coconut oil based soaps for washing up, laundry, personal hygiene, etc.. because it performed better with the sea water they would be using onboard.

Those that know Castile Bar Soap by Kirks, are familiar with coconut oil based soap.
 
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Target may be limiting sales of this product to areas with relatively soft tap water.

That would include a lot of Northern California, where the water generally comes from reservoirs filled by snow melt. With some exceptions. Socal, LA, SD, not so much. And Marin County has a problem, as does San Jose (I think).

Of course a few tbs of STPP would greatly assist a soap based laundry product like that in a hard water area.

YMMV
 
Target doesn’t sell this Laundry Soap at any of their stores in my area but it can be ordered for delivery.  I read the reviews and there were several 5 star reviews.  

 

Our water is hard as hell here in Cotati, but some of the reviewers stated they had hard water and were pleased with the results.  I just got a large bottle of Gain, but maybe when its getting close to empty I’ll order a box of this soap.  

 

The ingredients label states that it made with cocoanut oil so perhaps it will work well in hard water.  Almost 50 years ago when I lived in Petaluma, which also has very hard water I used Fels Naphtha Granulated Soap for the laundry and it was wonderful!  The clothes were always soft and sweet smelling.

 

Eddie
 
Our water is very soft and Target stores in area don't have this product. Then again haven't looked closely since have more than sufficient.

In addition to those two cases of NOS Persil there is a crate of P&G laundry soap, a smaller one of Kirkman Borax soap and Fels Naptha, few boxes of Ivory Snow, case Lux flakes, NOS box vintage Fels Naptha powder... Oh and number huge cubes of Savon de Marseille that one uses for bathing but could do for a laundry as well.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?38825

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Basically this product is another blend of soap and surfactant, sort of like syndet bar soaps such as Dove. https://www.chagrinvalleysoapandsalve.com/blog/posts/what-are-syndets/

Idea is to have benefits of soap without some or all of the drawbacks. For personal care it was how drying soap can be to skin. Here is another attempt to deal with fact soap is problematic to use in all but softest water, and usually only in warm to hot temperatures.

Addition of every enzyme known to current laundry care looks to address other worry, pure soaps aren't very good at removing many sorts of soils or stains.
 
This feels like something coming out of one of former P&G plants in Ivorydale---the St. Bernard Soap Company--which apparently makes a lot of the bar soaps for all the manufacturers including P&G...

I do wonder about whether there actually ARE enzymes in the formula, given that they say NOTHING about it on the proprietary site and it's only mentioned in that "analysis" site.

 
Speaking of Ivorydale

I usually pass by there on my way to work. I noticed today that Crisco is now a brand of B&G Foods, that also owns Durkee, Brer Rabbit, and many other brands. The complex also includes St. Bernard Soap Co., and Procter & Gamble Technical Center.
 
It may work..

If you want to go through the extra work and use your old wringer..
And fill your wringer tub with hot water, start agitation, add STPP and wait to Dissolve to condition the water.
Add soap and wait til it dissolves, then ad laundry. Then one hot rinse.
(maybe a small amount of STPP in first rinse) Followed by a third clear warm rinse?
But who’s going to do all that?
But y’all know..Some poor soul is just going to pour into the dispenser drawer of a FL Machine, and set temp cold water!
Bless their hearts
 
Well Stan, the market target of these "green products" is the poor soul with a front loader that uses cold cycles and quick cycles only, "to save the planet".
Of course oblivious to know better, or know that yes, natural soaps are good and everything but if they were surpassed by detergents there is a reason or that they take some more skills to launder with. Say for istance several deel rinses that their modern machine just probably would not have.
Sure not the quick cold cycle of choice.
 
Around here tree huggers goes crazy for potassium coconut oil jelly soap. Some companies decades ago came out with this product, it did not caught up much until recently.
Because of the "all natural" craze.
First as a pretreater and increasingly became popular as a laundry soap
Directions always mentioned you to cut up in chunks and put in the drum along with perborate (back then when it was still sold) and now percarbonate which acted as a builder and of course stain fighting-bleaching.
Indeed it is much more suitable for laundry in a machine than coconut oil soap, less build up as Launderess says.
The good thing is that keeps who uses it to chose a decently long cycle with a decent temperature to allow it to dissolve.
 

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