Tide Total Care HE

[mrb627]

Does anyone here prefer the TTC liquid over the other Tide offerings? I am a little leery of using Tide with Bleach offerings with good clothing because of the potential for fabric fading. Do you think TTC cleans as well as TWB?

Malcolm

 

[magic_clean]

A big fan

of Tide Total Care HE here. Cleans & rinses well, preserves colors & minimizes fading. No need to purchase other detergents for darks and works fine on whites. The Total Care is good all around product in my experience.

L.P.

 

[golittlesport]

I like Tide Total Care HE also. I keep a bottle to use on clothing items, especially delicates and knits, and use a regular HE detregent for linens and towels.

 

[mrb627]

2 Flavors

I am trying to limit my supply to just 2 detergents rather than having people tell me it looks like a meth lab of chemicals. Thinking Tide is the winning detergent here.

Malcolm

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Malcolm,

If your water in GA is anything like the municipal water here in Charlotte, there are times when you can smell the chlorine. Here it goes in spells as the city flushes lines, etc.

I have flipped back and forth between Cheer Dark to deal with fading issues, and Total Care Tide. Cheer has chlorine scavengers in it that P&G has told me TC-Tide doesn't.

I am like you that I don't want a shelf full of different detergents. Not long ago I had about four or five packages open at once. I dealt with this about 6 months ago and decided to get some TC-Tide, however I had to give the first bottle to my Mom because I can't stand the Renewing Rain scent. The Cool Cotton scent is much better, in fact I like it, but at the time P&G said they were discontinuing it. The scent left the website after that, but now it's back.

In the interim, I went back to the Cheer for my darks and colors that can fade, and I use a detergent with bleach for much of the rest. If you can tolerate the scent of Renewing Rain, it's a great detergent, as this is the only HE scent. I don't know why it has to be different than the other Tide scents, but that's marketing.

It is interesting using a detergent that is orange...

Gordon

 

[frigilux]

Just checked Consumer Reports' ratings; they haven't tested the HE version yet, but the standard version rates pretty high. Tide with Bleach Alternative scores a 59 (second only to Wisk's 61) and
TTC scores a 55. The HE versions of Tide products tend to score higher than their standard counterparts.

I wear a lot of black clothes, and have switched to Perwoll for Blacks. Cheer for Darks and Woolite for Darks both have optical brighteners which make blacks appear faded or dusty. Perwoll is no more expensive than Woolite and it cleans better. I get it online at Amazon.

How are you liking the German Persil?

 

[aldspinboy]

Malcolm , Gordon...Guy's ..
I have to say that I am a chemist I like trying and using different products
and it keeps doing laundry fun because I do get bored.
So trying new detergents and new ways of washing is something to learn always for me.
 
But I do just have the standerd four detergents from dark to light to white laundry.
And I can see just being simple without all the clutter.
My other half just use three detergents for the 17 yrs I have known him
Tide
Downy
Clorox..thats it lol never changes.
 
I like Tide Total care for my shirts and some sweaters and other fine fabrics.
But I am not crazy about the scent it is to sweet smelling it seems to aim for women.
I wished they change to a non-scented or very mild formula.
Not a fan of scented fine laundry or shirts because it clashes with my cologn.
So I let them hang on a hanger out the closet.. in a day it seems to fade a little
but still smells a little strong in sweaters.
Like Tide products it will be more sudsy in front loaders.
But it cleans and rinses well .
Fading I see more in the water with TTC compared to Woolite Dark , less bleeding in the water to me.
I also use Cheer with color guard for regular dark clothes.
Here I'm dosing and loading with TTC in the Lady K
going into the Wash & Wear cycle.
The Orange color is cool looking.

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[aldspinboy]

Here is my Best mates stash he has not changed
Since Iv'e known him since 1993.
But his laundry room and eqipment has.
Im no influence on him...aah maybe a little.
He added Downy to his stash before
It was just Tide and Clorox lol.
So here is simple at its best.
Darren k[this post was last edited: 5/21/2012-01:23]

 

[frigilux]

Love that beautiful Lady Kenmore, Darren!  It brings back all the Kenmore-related memories of my childhood (we had a 1960 Model 80).

 

[mrb627]

Funny

My local grocer has eliminated TTC in its offering. Apparently, it wasn't selling and was replaced on the shelf by PODS.

Malcolm

 

[kenmoreguy64]

Mine did the same

They had only put TC Tide on the shelves last fall - later than most. I know they sold one bottle because I saw a guy grab one and check out with it.

Just a week or so before the pods showed up earlier this spring, and all those pre-messured paks by All, Fab, Arm&Hammer, Purex, too, the same store had a whole rolling cart up by the registers of 50% off "disco" detergents, including the TC Tide. It was cheap -- 100 oz. bottles were $7.50. I usually can't pass up a bargain, but that one I did.

There was All Free and Clear as well, 100 oz All (it's already back on the shelves!), and several 50 oz. varieties of Gain.

All this I'm thinking for a shelf re-set to make room for the pods.

Gordon

 

[jerrod6]

All Tide products have optical brighteners in them.   I am concerned that the brighteners will degrade the look of colored fabrics.  Has anyone noticed this on colors?

 

 

 

[logixx]

CR's opinion:

 

[kenmoreguy64]

If Tide's brighteners were consistently degrading the appearance of colors, I think P&G would not only be aware of it in today's quick feedback market where consumers are invited to write comments on a product's website, and market research studies are constantly monitoring consumer acceptance of products. P&G is too careful to risk Tide's #1 spot to sell a product that could risk it's market share OR give the competition an edge to market a competing brand.

As to the Consumer Reports video, I think this answers the question about fading and color degrading, but I question the premise of the entire CR report. Total Care Tide is NOT any more expensive than anything else in the Tide line, package for package, so this could confuse people who watch the video, but each bottle contains fewer loads per than the other Tides. They probably should have pointed that out.

Finally, I saw some Tide Total Care on clearance at a local Lowe's store this weekend - a 75 ounce bottle was $6.75. A great deal if anyone is on the fence --- this is cheaper than the regular price of a 50 oz bottle. I saw both HE and regular formulations.

Gordon

 

[jerrod6]

Logixx

 

Thanks for the link to the video. So do you think Tide Total care is better to use than Persil Megaperls for colors and Universal Megaperls for Whites?

 

[logixx]

Hi Jerrod!

Well, I didn't buy the Total Care last summer when I was in LA so I can't compare. I was torn between this and ColdWater and went for the CW mainly due to this video. I can't say that ColdWater fades my colors when washing them at 85F and it cleans well.

I wouldn't use any liquid (by itself) on whites as they all lack oxy bleach.

Alex

 

[chris74]

As Alex wrote...

...german liquids, even for bright whites, no matter which brand, don't contain any bleach, neither oxygene based nor chlorine. As someone told me, this won't work with the pH value and would destroy the enzymes...

Optical brighteners are included to give a shine even to coloured clothing.

 

[jerrod6]

I don't think German persil for colors contains optical brighteners but in some countries where Henkle sells it I think the formulation does.  So how come?