I was looking for the old thread to see if there were any thoughts on clothes washing products.
Quite a mundane query I know, but we’ve been using Fairy non-bio products for quite some time, and in recent years a large bottle formulation labelled as ‘professional’.
I’m convinced they’ve added an extremely strong new scent which makes me queasy and is possibly irritating my throat - hard to say as old bottles with a previous formulation to compare would have been recycled.
If it isn’t a new formulation then our washing machine can’t be rinsing properly.
So which are your favourites which don’t stink to high heaven of chemical scents?
Talking of items with added scents, it’s often been mentioned that an Astonish glass cleaner works well to spruce up Naim casework - I don’t to it often but my bottle is running low and in all the local supermarkets etc they now only seem to stock ones with added fragrances.
I’m also not fond of chemical/synthetic scents and for the past five years or so, I’ve transitioned to using Ecover (for tough stains I add a little Vanish OxiAction). Wishing you a lovely evening
Astonish sell all their products by mail order. Have a look online: the product used for Naim casework is the Tile and Glass Cleaner, which comes in a 500ml aerosol spray bottle. I suppose that it must have a scent, but I’ve never really noticed.
(I have three or four bottles, ready to go, in a kitchen cupboard.)
PS I have looked online. Astonish are in Yorkshire. Their telephone no is 01377 337150.
I didn’t expect to be joining a discussion on cleaning products, but here goes! I like the Fairy non-bio liqui-tabs or pods that you put in amongst the laundry. They are scented, but I don’t mind it.
To be honest I thought the new ‘professional’ non-bio in a bottle now smells closer to those. It’s strange how scents can trigger physical ailments, but they can also trigger memories which can be good or bad.
The old thread mostly had fairly high-end luxury items but from memory it did include more simple things such as Worcestershire sauce.
Thanks, I was considering Ecover the other day and it’s on offer at Waitrose (probably cheaper elsewhere) and have grabbed a bottle of the fragrance free stuff. I think I tried the ‘sandalwood’ scented one years ago but didn’t like it - assume they don’t use proper sandalwood.
Yes, I just found a 2019 thread suggesting it was no longer available - they may just have changed the name leaving out tile, who knows. Previously the Window and Glass wasn’t advertised as scented though perhaps again it’s just a marketing thing when it was all along.
I’ve used Assos Active wash; designed for cycling kit. Works well (especially for waterproofed and synthetic fibres) and you don’t need much. Use sparingly… not cheap!
That’s an interesting one - looks to be around £28/litre so probably a bit too expensive for regular daily work/school clothing washes but possibly a nice one to try for sports clothing which in my case often simply needs a freshen up, though I’d imagine cycling clothing could get pretty muddy very easily.
That looks like something to try out - so you only replace the beads every 50-70 washes not every wash? That would be reduced faff in itself especially if doing consecutive washes.
I suspect it works very well, and if you have expensive delicate clothes it might well pay for itself quickly in terms of keeping them in pristine condition after washing, or maybe just freshening up.
My only reservation would be the capacity so you might need several runs for more than one person’s outfit - I suspect though it’s a step before hanging clothing not something you’d always do immediately before wearing clothes.
Alas, I’m not an example of sartorial elegance either in terms of clothing or the underlying frame to carry them!
It probably costs more than all my clothes combined!