New Compact Tide - Now Usable

[whirlcool]

After sitting on the laundry room shelf for a couple of months, I decided to try our box of Compact Tide powder - Fresh Scent again. For those of you who remember, this stuff smelled like a HE chemical dump. It stunk the house up, it stunk the clothes up, etc.

When I opened the box I noticed the odor was greatly reduced. You know, this same thing happened to me with my box of Persil Bio Powder. It too make the whole house reek and even made our eyes burn. After a few months of sitting in the garage, it was safe to use.

I washed a few loads using the Tide powder and everything came out smelling nice and fresh, no HE odors. This is surprising as there is no HE logo anywhere on this box of Tide. The only other detergent that we have used that has had that kind of odor was Cheer HE liquid. It too smelled of HE type chemicals, but it was an HE detergent anyway.

Could it be that we have oversensitive noses? Or is "fresh" laundry detergent over fragranced over time looses its scent?

 

[frigilux]

Allen--This is the first I've heard of Compact Tide powder. Did you use Henkel Persil (German) or Unilever Persil (UK)? If you're sensitive to strong-scented detergents, I'd steer clear of Ariel (Mexican) in the blue bag. It will definitely scent your entire domicile!

 

[laundromat]

Is it just me? Or,has anyone else been noticing how now, even the non-HE detergents are making fewer suds???

 

[whirlcool]

We discussed Tide compact powder here when it first came out. This is the lower sudsing version. At least that's what they called it here, on the box it says it's "Ultra Tide - Clean Breeze". I wonder if these batches were overscented by mistake?

What is so strange about this detergent and the Persil (UK)Bio is that they were the strongest smelling detergents we have ever smelled when first opened. Normally we are not that sensitive to odors. FOCA doesn't bother us, Cheer doesn't bother us, Surf or Arm & Hammer doesn't bother us, etc.

I like the way they work, but it looks like when we buy it we'll have to let these "cool down" in the garage or laundry shelf for a month or so before we use them. These are the only two detergents that we have ever experienced these effects from.

It seems that American detergent mfg's are starting to move towards lower sudsing detergents, but IMHO they are not there yet compared to European detergents such as Persil.
[this post was last edited: 9/27/2011-12:03]

 

[whirlykenmore78]

American detergents

I have used one American detergent powder that works very well and does not oversuds. The product is called Laundri Brite made by Ecolab. It powers out Grease and dirt on cooks uniforms and aprons in one wash. The fragrence is a very light lemon scent. It is also very clean rinsing. I may start using this at home as well if Tide keeps going up in price.

 

[mysteryclock]

Laundri Brite sounds interesting but Ecoloab distributers won't sell their products to consumers will they?

 

[launderess]

Ecolab Would Rather Die Than Deal With Consumers *LOL*

Ecolab deals strictly with industrial/professional users, period. If by some chance you do get your hands on any of their products don't bother contacting Ecolab for assistance of any sort. First question will be "who is your local sales rep.."? If you don't have one and or cannot say customer service will take down your information (if you are a business user) and forward it to the proper person who will make the call (with a heavy sales pitch no doubt), but otherwise you will get nothing out of them.

Most if not all Ecolab laundry and other commercial products do not even have dosing/usage directions on containers. That is information supplied by whomever sells the stuff to you. Have heard in some cases not even then as the Ecolab sales person will come in and set up/program the dispensing systems but not tell the owners anything or give them the information to make adjustments themselves.

That being said one can often find Ecolab stuff floating around. Unless Ecolab takes the stuff back a business is perfectly free to sell off it's inventory and or is sold if the place closes up shop such as when a commercial laundry goes out of business.