Tandil Beats Persil Color Gel

[launderess]

"I personally would never wash a dirty white load with a liquid detergent."

As one has repeatedly stated, what do people think all those in wash "boosters" are in aid of then?

Having removed what really makes whites clean and mark free (bleaches, alkaline substances, etc...) in liquid detergents, product makers came up with "boosters". These products contain oxygen bleach, maybe a bleach activator, enzymes, washing soda, etc... Same sort of things one finds in a top shelf powder detergent.....

It's all a con; but people fall for it time and time again.

 

[nickuk]

washing whites with liquids.....

I think it's OK to do this if whites are washed separately on an appropriate cycle / temperature and if the liquid is good quality and ideally contains OBA. Furthermore, I maintain that liquid is acceptable if either

(a) one adds oxy bleach to the wash or
(b) one dries outside in the sun (actually offers stronger bleaching than oxy bleach)

I get that it is kind of counter intuitive to wash whites with liquids, but I feel that the addition of either of the two variables above gives at least a comparable performance to powder. There's only about 2% less cleaning power (according to Which?)if one uses Persil bio liquid vs Ariel bio powder as stand alone products. Surely adding TAED and oxy bleach to top performing Persil liquid must give a similar performance to Ariel powder? Infact in my experience it is actually better.

On a grubby load I will add a double or triple dose of pure oxy bleach which boosts cleaning powder massively without oversudsing whereas simply increasing detergent might do. In fact in this case I may only dose about 20ml liquid vs 35, and I also enjoy this flexibility.

Never in my experience has any stain which has not been removed using this combo then subsequently been removed by bio powder on a test / rewash though I would be very interested to hear of actual examples which counteract this claim. I am fastidious about testing detergents for stain removal and I don't make these claims lightly.

Partly I do it this way because I like to use the same base product for all laundry (except wool / silk) for consistency. Furthermore I can add a half or a quarter measure of oxy bleach to colour fast loads as I see fit - if there are stains which require it or if I want some deoderising properties added. I like the flexibility. When the kids were babies certain stains required LCB which I happily added to liquid once the enzymes had worked some magic - of course one could not add LCB to a detergent containing oxy bleach.

Furthermore with liquid if I want to prewash I can do this with the enzymatic liquid before adding oxy bleach in to the mix. I can also pretreat and easily handwash with it. Use of a dosing ball reassures me that none of the product will stick in the dispenser or pipes and end up in a rinse cycle.

What I do object to (as I imagine most good folk on aw.org would) is liquid constantly being used on overloaded machines whose dials seem to be stuck on tepid `quick wash' (is this just an awful British habit?)causing filthy stinky machines. But if you know what you're doing I genuinely believe liquid is a fine laundry staple.

 

[liberatordeluxe]

I wash whites with Bio Tesco liquid at 60C and they come out sparkling white and then line dry in the sun. I don't really notice the difference in cleaning between the brands so i generally stick to McBride products and i prefer the fragrances. I use Tesco colour for coloured clothes and again they get everything clean too.