maytaga806
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I’m sure everyone has had to see the new commercials for Cascade. I’m talking about the Brand Power commercial, where the blonde lady says “did you know there’s a detergent that gets your dishes up to 100% clean? Even in an older dishwasher”. I felt that they’re trying to insinuate that older dishwashers don’t work well and I just can’t fathom where they get that from, they used more water, bigger motors, and were much quicker than todays machines. Why wouldn’t it work well in an older dishwasher? It’s just a pretty stupid statement to make for an advertisement.
The fact I’ve found in my case is that the Platinum Plus does not work well in older dishwashers in SOFT water conditions. It completely oversudsed my Powerclean to the point it started dripping out the front and the motor was really struggling, I had to cancel and drain immediately. I recently moved into a home where I have pretty soft water, and before I moved I was somewhere that had really gross city water that was very hard and the platinum plus worked just fine there with the specific water I had and never got this sudsy. It even gets way too sudsy in our new built in crappy GE dishwasher. Don’t they understand how to get this corrected? This has been ongoing for years and years and years. Anytime I use Finish or the store brand pacs they never produce even a small layer of suds, nothing. I’ve always wondered is it the ratio of Dawn they put in these actionpacs. I can’t imagine how many dishwashers are getting too sudsy with unsuspecting consumers using this product in soft water conditions and it goes undetected. This is my favorite kind I was using, the Mountian scent. As a side note, P&G nailed that scent. It’s so earthy and reminds me of the scent in the air outside before a storm. But I can’t use them anymore so I switched back to powder Cascade which doesn’t produce any sudsing.
One last thing. With the new ge dishwasher it came with two platinum plus actionpacs in the fresh scent and these were pretty stale, they had to of been atleast a year old the powder was yellow and they smelled kind of gross but I decided to use them anyway and there were little to no suds! Bizarre.
Anyways, just some interesting thoughts I decided to share and I’m sure some can relate!

The fact I’ve found in my case is that the Platinum Plus does not work well in older dishwashers in SOFT water conditions. It completely oversudsed my Powerclean to the point it started dripping out the front and the motor was really struggling, I had to cancel and drain immediately. I recently moved into a home where I have pretty soft water, and before I moved I was somewhere that had really gross city water that was very hard and the platinum plus worked just fine there with the specific water I had and never got this sudsy. It even gets way too sudsy in our new built in crappy GE dishwasher. Don’t they understand how to get this corrected? This has been ongoing for years and years and years. Anytime I use Finish or the store brand pacs they never produce even a small layer of suds, nothing. I’ve always wondered is it the ratio of Dawn they put in these actionpacs. I can’t imagine how many dishwashers are getting too sudsy with unsuspecting consumers using this product in soft water conditions and it goes undetected. This is my favorite kind I was using, the Mountian scent. As a side note, P&G nailed that scent. It’s so earthy and reminds me of the scent in the air outside before a storm. But I can’t use them anymore so I switched back to powder Cascade which doesn’t produce any sudsing.
One last thing. With the new ge dishwasher it came with two platinum plus actionpacs in the fresh scent and these were pretty stale, they had to of been atleast a year old the powder was yellow and they smelled kind of gross but I decided to use them anyway and there were little to no suds! Bizarre.
Anyways, just some interesting thoughts I decided to share and I’m sure some can relate!
