Powder HE detergents

[mrsalvo]

Sam's Club brand Wind Fresh is very good. Sold in a pail, 214 loads. Bought it last spring and it has lasted us nearly a year, often use less than what it called for. Think it does as well as Tide, couldn't tell that much difference.
I used Cheer powder for a long time, it cleaned pretty good but I got tired of running so many rinses, as it is high studding. Towels were a lost cause. Neither detergent has optical fabric brighteners.

Bought a box of Tide With Bleach last week, thought I would try it again after several years. Once I opened it up I realized it had Optical Brighteners in it. Will give it away to a friend of ours, very allergic
to the brighteners, can't be around that. I did run a test load with it to compare to the Wind Fresh and couldn't tell that much difference. Swore off P&G products years ago and I should have stuck to it.

I recommend Wind Fresh.

 

[retro-man]

Ok back to what the original poster asked. I use Arm and Hammer in the hair salon for doing white towels. Hot water with bleach and A/H. Does a good job at cleaning but like Launderess stated it does leave them a little rough, but that also makes them very absorbent and without a scent, which is what I am looking for. Very low suds and rinses clean.

Jon

 

[richimaor]

Thank you all for you comments, I really appreciate all of them
I’ll go ahead and buy a small box of Arm & Hammer and give it a try, also gonna hunt down my local Sam’s Club in search of Wind Fresh

 

[launderess]

Wind Fresh Lanundry Detergent

Is a pretty basic commercial laundry detergent Sun based on a formula that has been used for ages. To their credit Sun does offer versions with oxygen bleach and or "bleach alternative". The latter is trade speak for higher levels of OBAs IIRC.

Sodium carbonate
Sodium silicate
Sodium chloride
Alcohols Ethoxylated

Made up a bulk of the "cleaning power" if you will.

https://webcache.googleusercontent....Powder)_8-16-11.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

In another generation it would have been simply soap, sodium metasilicate and maybe phosphates....

Sun

 

[richimaor]

With all this talk I started to think about the big mystery laundry is, laundry techniques that work for some don’t work for another person, things like water hardness and pH can influence in results like a total dark or total good force (I know it’s just chemistry), but here we are willing to discover the perfect laundry technique that works for everyone around the world and we may not be able to achieve it, not for now; let’s hope in a not too far future we will