My great-great-great grandmother used soap
And her laundry was perfectly clean.
Of course, she used boiling water. Boiling soft water.
Lots of borax, lots of chlorine bleach.
Lots of boiling hot rinses.
And a wringer washer coupled with a stand-alone spinner (about 2000rpm?).
As Laundress has taught us over the years, properly used, soap cleans really well.
Just - soft water, hot rinses (lots of them) and proper auxiliaries and it works great.
But - in cold water? Cold, hard water with no proper agitation, one half-hearted cold rinse and those dosage instructions?
Worthless. Worse than worthless.
This is why I say cold-water washing is of zero value.
And her laundry was perfectly clean.
Of course, she used boiling water. Boiling soft water.
Lots of borax, lots of chlorine bleach.
Lots of boiling hot rinses.
And a wringer washer coupled with a stand-alone spinner (about 2000rpm?).
As Laundress has taught us over the years, properly used, soap cleans really well.
Just - soft water, hot rinses (lots of them) and proper auxiliaries and it works great.
But - in cold water? Cold, hard water with no proper agitation, one half-hearted cold rinse and those dosage instructions?
Worthless. Worse than worthless.
This is why I say cold-water washing is of zero value.