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andic29

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This is interesting... the bottle measures and dispenses the detergent for you and then automatically refills with the "appropriate" amount of detergent for the next load. 1 shot = 1 load. According to the website, they base 1 load on 6lbs of dry laundry. They also recommend using water that is 70 F or cooler. I couldn't find anything stating that the formula contained enzymes.


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They've also added a new liine of Purex Crystals called Aromatherapy....

"Purex Crystals Aromatherapy is more than an in-wash scent booster – it’s a way to express yourself and discover new joys in life. Floral and citrus scents have been blended with aromatherapy essential oils to infuse your clothing with indulgent and refreshing aromas that revitalize your spirit."

The website says the crystals will permeate your clothing for weeks, not days. Yay?

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And just like for pods YAY for a full dose of detergent even when your load might use half of it for the soil and or size that it is (unless you figure how to do that anyway  but this way vanify the sense of it), ...no line measuring? No doubts? No half ways!   No clue what is for what except 1 cap ! Uh la la!  
So guess what the average person will do? A full cap whatever your load is...isn't it magnificent???  Uh... isn't??? Ehhm no...
At least they didn't push  the  eco-green button to sell these....for now...
Oh poor world!

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Half load was an example.......
Detergents are typically measured on soil level, load quantity and in some places like europe even on water hardness.
US detergents  already miss the water hardness indication with a " use more if water is hard" granted that the average amount indicated  is  for medium water...sometimes they state so even for "heay soil"... so you already have to "guess" enough...
Some others just go by load quantity...
Now....to me it's simply silly to take away even a parameter such as  a line or  even better an actual dose based on ml to make simple mathematics with,  now is even less easy to have a clue of what the right amount is for the soil  you're going to apply said dose on,..which parameters are you going to get with this bottle than the 6lb? 
As said the half load was an example, but loads can have infinite soil levels as well as being a little more than half, almost  full, less than half etc...

Would have been better if the cap had lines anyway...even better ml like many detergents here do.

I say that in the era where peope are so crazy about  blind enviroinmentalism almost like a fashion,  and I add,  just because someone tells that you gotta be so , more than  the concentration which is anyway important, would be much more important to make sure you use the very exact amount, a thing that I really don't see happening with this detergent, even less with the pods even though very good in giving folks the illusion of it, claiming 1 shot is what you need  is not right, because that 6 lb load could have infinite soil levels, and as we know...people out there  don't usually tend to care much of these things themselves, not  like someone here will do anyway...that 1 shot may well be over the average and standards needs, yet they're told this is what they need.
I know of members who actually broke the pouches and scale dosed them to make sure the correct amount was used, but this is "us" .. out there..I am sure 1 shot will be 1 shot always  for the joy of manufacturers who very likely  will also be able to give you the illusion of being even enviroinmentalist by doing so...is a win win for them...not for the folks who always more often rather needs to be taught, not teased.

 

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Enzymes

If you click on one of the scents at the bottom of the Purex web site you`ll be rewarded with an ingredients list.

Sadly it seems that Purex With Oxy is the only one of the Purex line that contains enzymes.
Also find it a bit dissappoining to see dimeticone (silicone oil) listed in a Henkel detergent, because this stuff is certainly not eco friendly and there`s plenty of other options to control suds.

Kudos to Malcom
"For best results: Use one dose for regular loads, and two doses for large or heavily soiled loads"
 
I actually like PODS, but don't care for Purex detergents, so wouldn't use it.
I have a variety of detergents for different things, I have liquid, powder and pods. So I don't worry about overdosing, or too little I can still taylor to the load.

As far as the one-shot, Wouldn't even buy it if Tide was selling.
 
"For best results: Use one dose for regular loads, and t

But what soil level the full cap is based on?

6lb okay..but what soil level? Medium soil?  Normal? what about Hard soil? Normal in many detergents doesn't typically means another more than medium....nor is heavily soiled another more of normal dose or  a medium dose added...
Do you have these parameters? Otherwise how could you be sure?

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You can't be sure if it's Purex

Hmmm. They beg more questions than they give answers to.

The FAQ does give some answers to the basics; large loads use two shots, hard water use Borax, works in any temp - lower temps to prevent fading.

The bottle animation reminds me of those toy coffee pots that "poured" coffee making it disappear into the top of the plastic pot when tipped over.

It's not altogether a bad idea, though the average user probably has no clue as to how much a "load" of laundry weighs. Hasn't CR stated that the average washload is 11-14 pounds?

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I tend not to do "potions".... so if I am using one I usually don't add another,  if it's too less what I have left I usually keep it for small load or lightly soiled and I start a new one for the other.

I tried pods.. even though I said I'd not...both from P&G and Henkel, even the RB ones,  they're sure somewhat  easier, not  good  or meant for me anyway and I don't even like much the liquids,  anyway that's another matter,  they're of course constrictive as I said... I hear the  people buys them because they say they don't have to measure anymore...which is a respectable decision itself, but  many when they come to me  also  say that they love them as they save a lot, better say they don't waste detergent, and there I want them..
I really can't help to ask if their washing is really so standardized/divided to really make of a pod  or 2, 3 whatever... the most "efficient" if we can use this word, detergent...and how is it saving detergent...
 I end up realizing it sure isn't for me...and  they do too at the end....they will likely end up using pods or premeasured again, at least not with a false illusion of not wasting,  but actually with  the  consciousness they may  be doing the very opposite of it, and if you look the reviews of the pods, this phanthom saving  is all what many people talks about....so are not isolated cases.

Backing up with other detergents is of course possible, not the opposite though, but again, in both cases they're mainly bought to avoid that 4 seconds measuring job, so it's so even for a support dash of your powder or liquid...

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I would have a lot of trouble using this as-is. There are no "standard" loads in this house.
I have some Purex liquid but I only use it when I pre-shrink fabrics before they're used. It doesn't really do much on anything else.
 
So..okay here we have some datas to do some homewoìrk...hopefully.

1 dose cleans a normal size of laundry = that is the half of what an EU machine handles (which says alot), not in my house, that's not a normal load anyway...but okay..all I wanna know is the dose.
Two doses needed to clean a larger loads of laundry...what will this larger mean??? The double possibly? In which way has it to be meant? Mistery of faith.

The same apply for heavily soiled... still don't say if the "not doubled" is for normal or medium.
I  have 18 pounds of luckily filthy  towels to wash in my beautiful hypothetical jet action Frigidaire.
18/6 makes 3 shots, load is heavily soiled, so they become 6 shots, it's a large load yes it is, here  I have  to assume I don't need to double the 6 shots another time to make 12, as I get it this is for both large and heavily, but if for larger they  meant larger than 6lbs then what the hell? Still have no clue of what larger meant anyway since you have the 1 shot 6lb data.....I refuse to believe it's 12 "shots" otherwise I better "shot" myself if someone thinks it's easier  and faster than grabbing a cap and measure the regular thing in it.

 

I said luckily filthy becase I have no idea if the not doubled dose is for normal soils, except for the size, what if they were normal or  medium soiled? A quart, a third? Now I have 18 pound in the middle from being medium and normal soiled..what do i do?
Still don't get the large use double thing also.....this load is large...
What your average homemaker will do at this point is easily imaginable,  in doubt of course the more is better than less,  all of it will be  garnished with the fact that many will also have no clue of how much their load weighs also and sure  the most will not go grab the scale and step with the laundry basket on top of their head to see how much it is..wasn't it made to make it quicker and easier?

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Philosophically, I love it when companies release outside-the-box products; and god bless 'em, if Purex put as much money into improving their low-to-middling performing detergents as they do snazzy packaging and formatting they'd having something of substance to hang their hat on.

The Purex Plus Oxi pod is actually their best-performing detergent and it's ranked only "Good" by Consumer Reports. Remember the Purex sheet embedded with detergent and fabric softener? How about their Color-Catcher that was supposed to prevent dye transfer from one garment to another? Unfortunately, neither worked particularly well. Still, I really do enjoy watching them cough up one potentially game-changing idea after another.

Back to the self-dosing bottle: It's still a jug of liquid, then, isn't it? The pod format is far more convenient to use and easier to transport if you have to schlep the wash to a coin-op or the laundry room of your apartment building. Just don't eat them, k?

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Well FWIW

You have been taken over. No doubt. Ya didn't listen to Dr Bunnell did ya?

What would you do if you woke up one day and found out all your pods were removed and replaced with powder?
 
Purex Has Always Been A Bargian Brand

Detergent, thus wouldn't expect to see a fabulous powerful enzyme cocktail a la Tide or really anything of the sort for that matter. If any Purex detergent contained the most basic enzyme for laundry purposes, protease should count it very fortunate.

IIRC most other such such detergents such as All, Trend, etc... do not contain enzymes and or they are limited.
 

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