The unit-dose detergents are coming....

[launderess]

Unit Dose Detergents Have Arrived Already

Least at one's home anyway.

Have used Wisk tabs when they were around, still have a final packet or two lying about spare.

Recenty laid in a stock of French lessive bulles.

 

[jerrod6]

No go

These are a NO GO for me.  Not using them.

 

[peterh770]

Tide Pods delayed to the second half of the year...

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/01/11/procter-gamble-delays-tide-pods-a.html

 

[logixx]

Persil in Germany

just launched this (again...)

 

[jerrod6]

How is this any different than Persil Liquid Gel except that you cannot control the amount you use by load size?

Perhaps it costs more per unit than the gel or Megaperals.  

 

Not having it.

 

[jt1985]

All Mighty Pacs

Here's Sun Products' take on the liquitablet

 

[jt1985]

Purex Ultra Packs

These are coming in February

 

[jt1985]

Arm & Hammer Crystal Burst

Here's one of the two Arm & Hammer packets

 

[launderess]

Unit Dosage

After an initial wash with one of the St. Croix bulles have determined the dosage is too much for our soft water conditions. Not to worry as one simply went for the digital baking scale and weighed one of the pouches. Next time will snip off a corner and squeeze an amount equal to about half out and go from there. The remaining pouch can go into the next wash period.

Have to say in general after using the French Ariel Excel "Alpine Frachie" gel that the stuff is highly concentrated, so one uses very small amounts. One assumes most "lessive Francais" in gel formats are the same and will now proceed accordingly.

 

[launderess]

Gel Pouches vs Liquids

One assumes as the natural progression has been to remove as much excess water from liquid laundry detergents to cut processing, distribution and other costs a problem occurs. Gel detergents being thick and rather viscous do not always dispense easily from washer's detergent drawers.

There are a few ways round this; one can go with the various dispenser caps that also serve as measuring cups and bung the lot into the washer, or simply pre-package the gel in unit-dosage format and proceed the same way.

 

[peterh770]

How much do you want to bet that the liquid in the All Mighty Pacs equals a properly measured dose of All 3X?

 

[dixieland]

Tide Pods

I picked these up tonight:

 

[dixieland]

The Pod itself has a three liquid/gel sections. This particular scent has a shampoo-like scent (very generic description I know). I actually like the smell.

 

[jerrod6]

NOT HAVING IT

I don't want any of these from ANY manufacturer

 

[dirtybuck]

Dixie:

I too found the Tide Pods trial pack at one of the Walmarts I frequent here in Springfield.

Was the price on them in your area also 0.99?

Laundry day will be on Sunday, so I might splurge and pick up a pack, and use at least one of them on my whites. I'll get back to you guys and let you know what the verdict is.

 

[jt1985]

Tide Pods

I bought a trial pack at work. They're 97 cents at my store. I noticed that these liquitabs are smaller than P&G's European liquitabs.

 

[norgeway]

I Will!

Stick to my Sears powder!!

 

[dixieland]

The package sold for 97 cents. I picked up a few. What I have noticed so far is that they're best-suited for lightly-soiled loads. I washed my gym clothes with them but once I wore the clothes to the gym and worked up a sweat there was a musty scent to the clothes. I don't think they are powerful enough.

 

[jt1985]

They're low sudsing

I did three loads with them: towels, darks and whites. Overall, it dissolved fast and cleaned well with little suds. I didn't have a problem with freshness, as I used the bottle of Lenor Breath of Fresh Air that I brought back from London last week.

I'll buy them again, seeing it as no one in my apartment complex knows how to clean the dispensers.

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Tide Pods

Well, Tide pods so far in my family seem to be a hands down "No thank you".

I gave my Mom a 3-pod trial pak on Saturday, which I also found at Wal-Mart. She used one on Sunday, and so did I. We both came to the conclusion that they suck. Plain and simple.

I had dropped a bit of Chinese food on a pair of slacks, and Mom didn't notice that one of her shirts had a cooking spill on it, or she would have pre-treated. Mom felt her laundry came out stiff, lacking a clean scent, and the shirt was still stained. A re-wash with a treater in a load with Gain powder corrected the problem.

My Dockers still had Sa-Cha sauce marks on them, but I didn't pre-treat on purpose, just to see what would happen. I will probably use the rest of the pods on towels only.

Mom wrote P&G to share her results. They replied back with a nice letter, and very quickly, but one that she felt lectured her on how to do laundry. Her comment was that she'd being doing it for over 50 years and doesn't need to be taught how, either the product works or it doesn't as she doesn't have the same poor results with others.

I am wondering if P&G put these single packed pods in a 3-pack box and sold them to Wal-Mart to get rid of them? I don't expect to buy any more.

Gordon