My husband was a mechanic and I treated all his oil and grease stains with Dawn dish soap. Wet the area rub in the Dawn. Let it set for a few minutes. Washed in Hot water and worked great. I just figured if it could get tar and oil off birds should work on clothes.

@katherineaustin2477

2 ай бұрын

I love dawn detergent

I know this was a lot of work for you but it was very interesting and helpful for me. Thank you!

@conniegunn

2 ай бұрын

Ditto!

We use Tide, in the powdered form. I have been using the amounts you said , awhile back. I also use SHOUT for Stains, works great. The last big Box of Tide I bought, I wrote on it, when it was purchased. We still have some left, and I bought that on the 2nd of NOV. 2023!!!! My husband is always working with fixing vehicles, or with our livestock, so his clothes get Dirty!!! As Does our grown Grandson, that lives with us. Our clothes are just as clean, as they were with liquid laundry soap. I have saved a huge amount of money, by buying powered Tide laundry Soap. Wouldn't go back. BUT, not many stores sell powdered laundry soap anymore. Our Clothes are clean, do not smell, I'm really happy with Powdered Tide Laundry Soap. WE live in Alberta Canada, so clothes get dirty on our little farm.

Thank you for taking the time to do this!

I love these comparison videos! Maybe do one on the various stain removers?🤷‍♀️ I’ve been using the Foca powder for a few years and for us, it cleans as well as any of the more expensive powders or liquids! It’s disappointing to see how lousy they ALL are!🙄😡 Thanks for all your time and expense in doing these comparisons!😊👍🏼

Wow! The arm & hammer is what i use. My husband is an iron worker in a founder & he gets really dirty. Seems to get his clothes clean. 😮

Thank you for doing this! I'm interested in seeing sensitive detergent, the free & clear types. Always enjoy watching!

@karenhackney9920

2 ай бұрын

Me too! I’ve never used anything but All Free & Clear since the 80s!

When we stopped using Tide liquid we noticed that the clothes weren’t cleaning the best, especially the grandkids clothes.. so Tide works best for us, and I pre-treat stains with Shout. I’ve tried the new tide pre-stain liquid, but in my opinion, it doesn’t work as well as shout, and it is a little cheaper. I do not like bleach for stains on white clothes at all so it shout for all stains for us.

@megacap55

Ай бұрын

i have noticed the same tide liquid doesn't cleans as well as i expected and in fact switched to an powder detergent the gain and actually works great on an Bosch he washer

My husband and son work on my husband’s truck and get really dirty. Our local appliance guy that sold me our washer said we need a washer with an agitator to get the clothes clean.

I think you really took one for the team on this experiment, and for that I thank you. I have used many different detergents but I think the key is using that very small amount --1 to 2 tbsp per load-- that Pistol and you recommended. I used far too much liquid detergent, to the point of having to buy a jug of it every month. Since I use less no matter what brand I use my clothes get clean, they smell clean, and I know that I'm being gentle with my machine because the soap in excess can really break your washer. Less IS more.😊 Also, I'm saving money$$$

This was very interesting. Some of these I would have thought would have done better. And you even showed how some didn’t even get out odors. I use arm and hammer Unscented because I’m allergic to scents, good thing I only get an occasional stain. Very good video.

Interesting experiment. When I was in the Navy, the only way I could get my oily work uniforms clean enough to pass inspection was with the Pine Sol or Top Job type cleaners. Wouldn't suggest that for any but the sturdiest clothing, though.

Glad you did a fair and honest assessment of your homemade detergent.

I use Zote soap as a stain remover. Huge bar is $1.62 and lasts a long time. Thanks for the video. Very informative

Thank you for taking the time Tawra! This is very helpful!

I appreciate this video. It's helpful to me. I sometimes forget to pretreat a stain, so I want a detergent with stain removing power.

Tawra, thank you for giving us this information.

Excellent test video. Thank you!

Thank you for this insight.

I use Dawn on grease. One time my ex-husband sister just bought him a t-shirt for his birthday he wore the shirt and went help a person with a motor and came home all greased up I put it in a bag and seal it and let it soak then I washed it the next day and it came out clean as a whistle. He was lucky because his sister would have been so pissed

@JenniferH1724

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this story

Interesting. Thanks for the great video.

Excellent video!!

Very few things will take out motor oil. My hubby got really dirty at his job. I ended up buying special heavy duty detergent. (Discontinued) Ammonia helps cut the grease used with your regular detergent.

@sheilabeasley4911

2 ай бұрын

I used to rub my husband’s greasy clothes with Gino hand cleaner before washing

I would stick with spray wash and FOCA because the bottle cap is at least small enough to not waste so much. I think it smells pretty neutral. Even if you use twice as much as recommended, it's only 3 dollars per bottle.

I love Greased Lightening for stains and liquid Tide or Gain to wash, just a small amount. I use cold water

detergents are made for normal laundry not stains, you use other avenues of treatment to get stains out.

@stst77

2 ай бұрын

But two of the detergents did work on the stains. It depends on the stain. If we spend money on a detergent to clean our clothes, we expect it to clean better than using plain water. We pay for it to get the dirt out. We can get the dirt out with a washboard, rock or intensive rubbing, and plain water as people have done for thousands of years. But we pay for a washing machine and detergent to avoid that hard extra work. I would not expect a detergent to remove a paint or ink stain, but I would expect it to get out dirt, food spilled on me, regular odors (not a skunk necessarily but household and body smells), diaper stains, etc. If my detergent can’t get out regular laundry jobs, then it’s not doing its job and it’s not worth the money. Washing with plain water can do the same job. It’s the same with dish detergent. I don’t expect dish detergent to remove rust from an iron skillet or scorched food on stainless steel, but I do expect it to clean all the normal food stains on dishes. If a detergent can’t do that then it has no cleaning power. Whether it’s clothes, dishes, or a toilet cleaner, if it can’t do its basic job then it’s no different than washing with just water.

💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Thanks Tawra for all your hard work testing the different laundry detergents .Very interesting. Have a blessed day in Jesus Christ name!!!

We add color safe bleach for really bad stained or smelly clothes. I have been buying Persil from Sams club. We were using Tide with color safe Bleach or Tide sports but that was back in 2019.

This is really interesting. I was thinking you must have been using cold water, but then you said you used warm. Im glad i dont have to deal with mud and oil very often. I want to find a homemade recipe for my HE washer. Thanks for all the work Tawra!!

@Deauxneal

2 ай бұрын

Most home made detergents work with HE washers. As long as what you make it with doesn't make alot of suds.

@trustinJesus_only

2 ай бұрын

@@Deauxneal facts. For the bar you shred, I like that pink bar from zote

Gain is my ultimate favorite, works excellent and each variety of it does. The powder does not work well on stains I’ve found. Persil, another excellent choice and works just as good as Tide does. Love using tide clean breeze here and there.

I found pretreat, hot water wash, cold rinse and any soap works for me.

Can you please do a comparison of sardines next thanks loves these demos they are a lot of work

I have a small squirt bottle with Dawn and water that I use for stains then wash the load with the Sam’s club bulk powder laundry detergent. My laundry is always super clean

Thanks for doing this! I guess nothing takes out stains completely without pretreatment or a stain treatment? It would be interesting to compare stain treatments next 😊

I like what I use but it works for us on our farm. I know you couldn’t pre-treat to do an even test. I do pre-treat all my stains with the oxy spray. I wash with tide sport which has a wonderful lavender smell and I put it up to the 2 in the cap for all the loads. I use vinegar in rinse which I think does help not just the machine but it helps the clothes. And then it goes in the dryer with just some lavender dryer sheets. This is the formula that I think works best. I’ve tried every cheap one and it doesn’t take out the manly smells or the farm smells and this works best for us. Thank you for all your hard work doing the east house. I hope you can find a charity or other organization to donate the soap to.

When I lived in Singapore, Persil was the detergent I used, had never seen it in the states. It made small holes all over my clothes in no time. Hopefully it has improved.

I would like to see you test Biz and other pre-soak products and just use the same detergent with all of them.

I've watched ALL your videos so far, and I am EXTREMELY thankful; you took so much time doing this testing for us!!!! Thank you DEARLY!!!!!!! Now I know what to use - and to pre-treat A:: stains for sure! ALL we eat here is meat - we are Carnivores, and I make a LOT of bacon! Most ALL of my clothing is stained with bacon grease! Heck, even the Keto lifestyle of eating leaves a kitchen with animal fats that can stain clothing! Now I know never to expect any of it to come out with powder or liquid detergent unless I pre-treat it! But.....;vegetable oil, corn oil, soybean oil, those are machinery oils, are probably even worse to get out! We don't use or eat ANY seed oils, so phew, there!!! I really wonder WHAT uniform companies use to clean their uniforms that shops use? My partner worked with a ton of grease on a CNC machine - he REEKED of the oil after work, and some jobs were worse than others and had a super strong odor! NONE of his clean uniforms he brought home weekly to wear the next coming week ever had stains nor did they have any machine oil odors! Again, I really wonder what they used for a detergent? Probably something super strong that only commercial machines can handle instead of our household machines....just thinking out loud there, for what it's worth! Thank you, again, and dearly so!!!! This took a TON of your time to do this for us!!!!!

I'm interested in the results.

I heard that 2 tbsp is enough to clean your clothes. Too much detergent is suppose to be bad for the fabric....(not my findings, just listening to youtube)! LOL! I can't see those lines in the cap very well so I'm sure I overfill it!

@loveu8910

Ай бұрын

I feel like 2 tbsp only works for small loads and light soiling..no way will it work for larger heavy soiled loads

I use Awesome spray, dawn and Tide stain spray for stains. Works every time. I got tire tread marks (from the rubber playground stuff kids play on) out of my kid's very expensive uniform pants. It also helps to just use a bit of Dawn, and scrub the stain with a brush. However, that isn't for all fabrics. Scrubbing can damage sensitive fabrics. Otherwise, I really just use laundry detergent to make the smell of clothes better. (Just a light scent, nothing crazy). Also definitely no fabric softeners

I think it's common sense that you have to soak the stains prior to washing.

@LivingOnADime

2 ай бұрын

I explained that.

I use tide powder and use alot less than their recommended amount. I've also heard that the mexican brands....powdered, are good for removing stains.

Thank you for this labor intensive test. Not encouraging. I'm going to play around with LA's super whatever pretty soon because I have used everything, including Murphy's oil soap, oxy, and homemade detergent with varying degrees of success. But I am still waiting for the product that will keep my synthetic fabric bras from turning to a dirty grey-white, or turn them back to some semblance of bright white. Polyester is the two edged sword of clothing.

I would like to see you do test the sheets.

Oil/grease= spray nine or greased lightning. If it’s pretty heavily stained use simple green. And this is cooking and motor oil/grease.

I noticed with my husband’s work clothes that were white, I had to separate his shorts from his pants. He had painters pants and his shorts were polyester button down. If I washed them together the shirts got dingy looking, but if I washed separately, they came out white.

I'm so happy to see that the most economical brand worked about the same as the expensive top winner! Thank you for getting to the bottom of this, Tawra! P.S. If you ever continue this experiment, I would love to know how well the Aldi brand, "Tandil" works [Tide dupe]

Can you test stain removers? I use Kids N Pets or Dawn mostly and Fels-Naptha Stain Remover, Pre-Treat but I know there are so many other so called stain removers that don’t do anything. Kids N Pets is my go to. I used it on laundry, rug and artificial grass. Use Dawn for grease, fels naptha for long set-in stains. Also , I don’t know if you want more things to test but rug cleaning solutions…I use a little clorox 2 mix with Kids N Pets and pretreat stains with Kids N Pets.

Home made all the way!! That and vinegar. All you need. I did laundry professionally for 14 years. Hair spray on ink. Hydrogen peroxide for protein stains (body fluids etc).

@Jweeee1111

2 ай бұрын

Hi there what do you mean by "that " which product?

@jenniferrosenthal7731

2 ай бұрын

She’s referring to her homemade detergent

@Jweeee1111

2 ай бұрын

@@jenniferrosenthal7731 yes thanks I'm wondering what it consists of though

@sia3206

6 күн бұрын

How do you make the homemade one?

@pvgranny12

6 күн бұрын

@@sia3206 We melt a bar of grated Zote soap in about a gallon of very hot water then add aprox a cup of Borax and a cup of Washing Soda stir them together and add another two gallons of water. Use a quarter to half cup for each load of laundry. We also put a cup of regular white vinegar in each load which has disinfection qualities and acts to soften clothes. I hope you found this useful. There are other recipes online.

Persil liquid is a great stain pre treat, tho…

I use the sheets.They work great plus no plastic to get rid of when empty.

I like All free and Clear, but pretreat with Persil for nasty stains.

I never ever just wash with laundry detergent. ALWAYS pretreat, usually with Great Value's pre treatment spray, before I put the soiled item in the laundry hamper. The regular dosage usually works fine then.

What temperature on the washing machine did you use?

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

warm

wow, Mexican detergent beat Tide. how bout that?

Persil in Germany is like Tide is here.

I've heard and seen that pinesol takes out stains.

We really like Era. We use it in loads that have stains. Otherwise we use homemade. Side note: my homemade detergent recipe calls for FOCA powder.

Not trying to be difficult but I think cooking oil would have been a better oil than the motor oil. Cooking oil is more common. Just a thought. Great experiment otherwise 👍

@LivingOnADime

Ай бұрын

That's why I used bacon grease it's very similar to cooking oil.

I know it pained you to use that much detergent in a single load.

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Persil is still king

i want to know what washer you have that your having issues with mud lololol

My mom is one of those people that fill up the whole and I tell her why? you're using too much soap. that's why your clothes don't smell clean.

You know, labels on products are important! I will go out of my way to purchase products that not only include pertinent info on their labels, but ALSO make them readable!! Anyway, product use labels are overlooked but I think they’re important.

Thank you, I really appreciate all your effort doing this for us all. I am going to try that cheap one and see how I like it. Will be watching for the powdered detergents next 😊 🧼 thanks again

You said Foca correctly. It means seal, hence the seal on the label. 🦭😊

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