Which type of clothes washing powder do you recommend? Usually I buy TOTAL powder from Migros. Seems OK. But then I bought OMO last week from COOP. The big value box with 100 washes. I used it yesterday and the after smell in the clothes was really bad. I threw the whole box in the garbage.
I tend to use either Persil or Ariel because they smell more âsoapyâ than âperfumyâ. I find if thereâs too much fragrance it clashes with any perfumes or body lotions I might be wearing. Some brands of detergent smell overpowering.
I never use the full recommended dose of detergent anyway.
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Persil or Ariel liquid.
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Powder? I beat the clothes over a stone and then string them up. Powder is for poofs.
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I always use Ariel powder as I know hubby doesnât react to that. He seems to react to Persil for some reason.
I always use about half the recommended amount too.
You likely were using too much soap. I use half of the recommended amount and it works well.
No. My wife used it and she uses really little powder. She washed the shower screen and now it smells like in a chemi factory. Which it never did using the Migros TOTAL powder.
Donât use powder, I use liquid - Aldiâs Tandil and also their softner.
Liquid, bought in bulk in Germany (5x5l things) aimed at professional cleanersâŚ
Each laundry load uses 30ml, I have a pump-doser, and it cleans well⌠last forever too
I use liquid but a lot of the neighbors use Persil powder. Why throw away the OMO? Give it away or use it for something else.
I once bought a bottle of laundry detergent that turned out to have far too strong of a smell. Instead of tossing it, I use it for washing cleaning rags. It works fine, it just smells too strong for clothes.
Such washing powder shit as OMO belongs in the rubbish.
I worked in formulation for Heavy duty liquid & powders for P&G when I was young and unexperienced 
⌠only to have my mom (& grandma) telling me "all of them are the same!
No, they are not⌠but oh wellâŚ
There are tier I / tier II / tier III products (for P&G, Unilever, etc)
Tier I contain higher concentration of active ingredients, and the most modern technology â and they are more expensive
Tier II contain lower concentration of active ingredients
Tier III areâŚsoap.
Then it is your choice âŚbased on price. as important as the brand, the type of productâ
Powder: Use it only for your whites, or childrenâs clothes. 60C - 90C. They are aggressive formulations, made for heavy duty clothes, or those that are not meant to live for too long (=childrenâs, teenagers wear-and-tear) -or are âold styleâ (heavy duty) cottons for table clothes or white linen.
Liquid: Colours and âadultâ clothing (where you donât need the abrasive power of solid particle grating for removal of dirt, grass, etc, and / or bleach-sourced whiteners) , and have medium to light soiling - particularly sebum (collars & cuffs)
For silks / wools - use special products, or soon, very soon, youâll have a nice piece of cloth to be sold at the 2nd hand market as it has little holes, has lost its shape, or both (the proteases cut through these natural fibers like a knife with butter)
And, if you have some time of atopic dermatitis / contact dermatitis / other skin conditions⌠I would go for real savon de marseille 
A lot of the perfume ingredients, as well as some of the enzymes (lipases / proteases âŚ) can trigger allergic reactions.
And, finally: 50% of the washing powder is due to the wasching machine (or
as KiwiSteve says⌠mechanical action. So, shy away from American top load (horizontal stirring) washing machines⌠they clean about 20% what an European one would do, under the same washing conditions!
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that seems to have already happened on my cotton t-shirts. 0.5cm holes everywhere.
I dont yet have a washing machine in my new digs, so its either a 80km trip to Augsburg for rhe nearest laundry-mat or put them on the shower and to that grape mashing dance.
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With or without grapes?
Asking for a friend
Somehow reminds me a neighbour had a huge harvest of small plums (Mirabelle) which he could not give away, I did my plum eating duty last year.
He fermented them, took them to the local distillery and now he has five litres of strangely coloured rocket fuel.
So far I have successfully avoided sampling.
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migh I recommend Mostarda for a next occasion? Slammer will surely have a better recipe than mine for it.
BTW, forget about removing the stains of coloured fruits (or tomato, or blood, or curry) with any liquid detergent 
unless you pretreat with some heavy reducer liquid -oxalic acid, hydrogen peroxide or dithionitesâŚgo directly for a powder detergent!.. (this is just to stay in-theme )
I use liquid wash pods, the own brand ones from Denner in a cardboard box which are super cheap compared to the brands. When Iâm in Scotland I used Fairy wash pods as theyâre dirt cheap from on of the bargain shops back there and they smell nice like babies 
Its been 3 days since I washed with this OMO shit and still the clothes stink of it!!!
Thatâs not a bug, thatâs a feature.
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You probably ought to change your underpants after three days.
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