Laundry soaps

[Minstrel SE]

I use the colour kind liquid and its powerful stuff. I cant imagine its acceptable to the environment

Ive even had the stuff on my tongue cos it gets everywhere and its not nice tasting I can assure you

I dont know how they treat all this stuff going down the drains because in those quantities it would seem hard to break down safely...it cant be good for our water courses and I wouldnt want to go near the rivers and outlets.

[Len Co]

Nice to see so many red blooded males au fait with the old laundering technology - we've got a machine here in the house somewhere I'm sure.

[Barry]

Nice to see so many red blooded males au fait with the old laundering technology - we've got a machine here in the house somewhere I'm sure.

No doubt referred to as "the wife".

Same as the 'dishwasher'?

[goraman]

I was forced into doing laundry by nessecity .
Nosheen has been running the store nearly single handed as our employee had a high risk pragnecy.
My job is 9 to5 5 days a week giving me more time than she has right now. A real man jumps in for the sake of his family even if it means doing dishes or doing the wash.
The 2nd reason , I needed to find a better solution for removing all the stains from Conners cloths to keep from going broke, chlorine bleach just eats baseball pants.

Laundry is something we all have done or are doing now,
And the products available continue to change as dose the washing machines .
I have yet to find a high efficiency that can beat a Speed Qween top loader!
I just wondered how you guys in the UK get really ruff stains out.
I hear your Persil powder, Omo and Dash work very well.

[Macca]

My job is 9 to5 5 days a week giving me more time than she has right now. A real man jumps in for the sake of his family even if it means doing dishes or doing the wash.
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Of course you're right. I seen my father do the washing and the dishes on the odd occasion. Never saw him use a vacuum cleaner though except to clean inside the car.

[Macca]

No big deal for me this washing business. Cracked it years ago. Automatic machine, delivered and plumbed in, all for a ton. Chuck in one of those gel capsules - I use 'Fairy' myself (make up your own jokes) then chuck in your laundry. No need to do a separate wash for whites if you don't buy any whites! There's a tip for you!

Set all the buttons that say 'Extra...' to 'Extra', and press play. Then go and do something more interesting for an hour.

When it's done (and on max spin speed with 'extra cycle' of course) it's just damp not wet when you get it out. Stick work shirts on hangers - use none iron type so they dry crinkle free (yes they are worth the extra money) - rest of it out on the line or, if wet out as normal, the expandable dryer rack thing by the radiator. Give it 6 hours or so and it's toasty. Then take it upstairs and cram it all into the drawers (except the works shirts obvs).

I mean it's about 10 minutes at best of actually requiring you to do stuff. I don't know why anyone makes a big deal of it.

[Len Co]

I feel I must explain ere I get labelled a lazy, chauvinist bounder or worse. My aversion to laundering stems from my teen years when the washing was done in some kind of bucket or tub on a hot stove or even a coal fire; my dear father who saw things in a very simple terms stepped into the breach one time when my mother was ill and stuck everything he could find into the tub and gave it a good old boil up. Of course my red woolly rugby socks shrank and my white cotton shorts came out a delicate rosado shade. I spent the rest of my rugby career on the wing in full view of my schoolmates sporting red woolly ankle socks and pink bloomers. This traumatised me somewhat and I have been keen to avoid making such a mistake myself ever since.

[alphaGT]

As a young man, I started working full time at 15, I paid my mother rent, and she did my laundry. At 18 I got married, and moved into an apartment where my wife did the laundry. All the years I was married, I’d come home to see the wife pooped out, so worn thin, she had been doing laundry all day! “Oh you poor dear! Let me take you out to dinner”.

Zoom ahead to age 38, my wife pulls up and leaves me to fend for myself. I raise the lid on the machine, and read the instructions, I drop in my clothes, add soap, spin the dial, and that’s it! That’s it? It was next to doing nothing! You can literally do it in your sleep! Throw the whole ball of clothes into the dryer, then fold or place on hangers, all of 15 minutes of work. I took my work shirts to the cleaners! So no ironing for me.

I think I was had! 20 years of sympathy for that?

Russell

[goraman]

Still experimenting with different brands from India and all over.
There is really only 3 companies and Surf is made by Sun now owned by Henkel (who makes Persil and Omo, and Surf is made by Unilever for India and the UK as Surf Exel.
Proctor and Gamble makes about 50 different detergents.

Persil is the top liquid so far but is not available in powder and Omo is not available at all.

It dose seem our laundry powders are made up differently than the rest of the worlds though. Example Surf here only removes stains in very hot water.
Tide and Cheer work well in warm water 60f to 80f.
I think Persil and Omo must be like Cheer and Tide is here in the U.S. and everything else sucks. Tide is very expensive ,I use it with TSP for whites and very dirty washes in warm water 80f.
Cheer removes chlorine and protects colors from fading or bleeding color and works well even in cold water 50f.

Cheaper detergents only do well in very hot 130f water.

Any one here use Persil or Omo in warm water with good results?

[struth]

stopped using detergent powders. use liquid gel fairy non bio. P&G make it. any stains get sprayed first with an oxy solution. also add a little laundry disinfectant as i wash in cool water. overall pretty cheap due to not heating water so hot, and the disinfectant covers you due to lack of hot water. its about body temp. Never had any issue.