Purex® Triple Action Bright•White•Clean™, or, "Holy frickin' moly!"

[joeekaitis]

Before-and-after photos might have been in order but to avoid grossing everyone out visually, let's just say a white cotton bath towel had accumulated a collection of blood splotches from a pimple that had chosen to pop right before bedtime.

On laundry day, I poured the entire dose of detergent (1.5 ounces per instructions) onto the affected area of the towel and waited for it to be absorbed before loading it along with 2 identical towels, 2 more towels and a week's worth of white cotton socks.

With a full dose of chlorine bleach in the bleach chamber, I dialed up the Heavy Duty cycle with a hot wash and cold rinse, Heavy soil level, Stain Clean soak, Extra Rinse, Maximum spin speed and Extended Spin on the Frigidaire Affinity. During the washer-to-dryer transfer, I couldn't tell which was which and after drying, I laid all three side-by-side under a bright light.

Couldn't tell one from the other. Usually, a few faint shadows of the old spot remain and eventually wash out.

$8.99 for the 150 load jug at Fresh & Easy (6 cents a load!). I'm sold.

http://www.purex.com/triple-action

 

[MrX]

To be honest, I am a little surprised that any good detergent would have any difficult shifting those stains.

Enzyme-laden forumlae will shift blood / organic matter in a matter of a few minutes.

I don't really find that either of the two dominant top of the range powders here, Ariel and Persil, have any issues shifting anything.

You just expect clothes to come out clean, unless you throw indellable ink stained clothes in or something.

 

[autowasherfreak]

I just bought a bottle at Family Dollar $8.00 Lavender scent. I also like the Purex with Zout.

 

[peterh770]

I tried the Zout formula... Smells nice from the bottle and did a great job cleaning, but man! were the clothes rank coming out of the dryer. It has the most cloying scent... And it lasts! I'm dubious that other formulations of Purex liquid are much better...

 

[foraloysius]

I guess the hot water is the problem here. Blood stains can better be washed in cold or lukewarm water. Hot water will set a blood stain immediately and makes it much more difficult to remove.

 

[launderess]

Blood Stain Removal

One really only needs one or two things:

Hydrogen peroxide (the stuff sold at chemists in brown bottles)

and or,

Enzyme pre-treatment product.

I've spritzed the odd blood stain on clothing and or bedding with pre-treatment product either before going into the wash or even just the hamper. Stains always come out, no problem. If one wants to push the boat out will splash some hydrogen peroxide on the stain before the item goes into the washing machine. Same results, stain is gone.

Warm water and alkaline pH will also remove blood stains for the most part. This is how commercial laundries who often have to process large amounts of stained hospital linens tackle the task. Ammonia is one of the common alkaline substances used to remove blood either in wash or as a pre-treat/spotter.

Water that is too cold will set blood stains just as too hot will. Either extreme causes blood to coagulate thus making the stain more difficult to remove.

 

[filterflo58]

no surprise its made by henkel.

 

[joeekaitis]

"I guess the hot water is the problem here."

Exactly. In the past, I would pre-wash in cold water on the shortest cycle followed by the full Heavy Duty cycle with hot water and bleach. This stuff got it all out on the first try with no cold pre-wash.

Two good things about Henkel acquiring Dial: No one was laid off (as near as I can determine) and Purex seems to be getting better.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Does Purex not make powder?

I went to Kroger the other day and in the detergent isle (I kid you not) the ONLY HE detergent they had in powder was Tide. There was row after row of liquid, but only ONE powder that was HE.

 

[joeekaitis]

Yes. And yes.

 

[roscoe62]

The only powder HE detergent here is Tide and I have never seen Purex in this powder form in our market, as you said mark_wpduet..................... the shelves are saturated with liquids.

 

[mrb627]

Glad to see this...

I have been a fan of the Purex FS for quite a while. A much better value than Downey, IMO.

I have used the Purex liquid, but only for colors and such. I still prefer a powder formula for whites.

Keep making it better, Henkel, and we can push Tide aside.

( Last time I looked at Tide, they wanted 18$ for a 66 load jug )

Malcolm