Well, we all buy washing powder, tablets or liquid for the washing machine but what I didn't realise is these products are not designed to get the washing clean. My experience also tells me that today's washing products don't work as well as those of thirty to forty years ago because they don't remove any stains or marks regardless of how light or heavy they are.
No! You now have to buy a separate product as well to remove stains! The advert says 'trust pink, forget stains', but I have tried it and it doesn't work. If you want your whites to stay white, then you need another additional product for that too.
So there you are with the washing powder ( heaven knows what it's purpose is), the stain remover powder to get off the tomato ketchup that you spilled down your best shirt last night, and the stuff that keeps your whites white. You put it all in the washing machine together with the fabric softener, oh! and the stuff to stop your washing machine scaling up and leaking all over the floor, then start the machine. By the time you've put in all the products that are supposed to help you get the whitest, cleanest wash ever, you can't get anything else in the machine so washing becomes a slow, expensive process!
What many people don't realise is all these products are manufactured by the same company, so it's money in their shareholder's pockets and out of ours. I think we should all complain to Trading Standards about products that do not perform the way we are led to believe on all the advertising. If every women went down this road, the manufacturers would soon come up with something that works.
Now I'm of to the local river to bash my spaghetti covered shirt on a stone....much cheaper!
Oh! If you have a dishwasher, you can now buy special tablets to clean the dishwasher.....WHAT?!
Hi Grandma!
ReplyDeleteLOL! That was a funny post and oh so true.
I use a liquid called Purex for my washing machine and a Bounce dryer sheet with a fabric softener in the drying cycle.
As far as removing a ketchup stain try this:
Run cold water over the tomato stain to get it wet.
Rub the stain with a bar of plain soap, such as Ivory soap, or a liquid hand soap (foaming or otherwise). Use your fingers to gently rub the soap into the stained area to create a lather. Gently rub the material on itself.
Rinse the soap out, and check to see if the stain is gone. If it isn't completely gone, repeat the process again.
If the stain is still not gone, use a little chlorine bleach if the fabric is white. If the fabric is not white, use a litle color-safe bleach. Wash the fabric in the washer in cold water following label directions.
As alternative to bleaching in the washer is laying the clothing outside in the sunlight. The sun will bleach the clothing and the stain should disappear.
The trick is to use cold water to remove the stain. As you already know, hot water sets them in.
Hi Robin!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips. Yes I have tried them but I get so cross when you have to do all that rubbing and fiddling around to remove stains BEFORE putting them into the washing machine. Tomato puree is one of the worst because of the oil.
Some recent research has shown that washing powder is more efficient than tablets or liquid so I have gone back to that but they still don't have the stain removing power of those of yesteryear. The washing machines are not as efficient as the old twin tub either!