Hey guys, trying to decide between laundry detergent liquid or powder. Which one do you guys prefer? I have used both and I do not have an opinion at this stage.
Laundry Liquid or Powder?
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What about for stubborn cake stains?
Why are you washing your cakes?
I used powder a couple of times when I was overseas and it smelled better afterwards but dried really weirdly.
Now I just add more liquid!!
I've found unless powder is washed on quite a hot cycle it struggles to dissolve and find it in the clothes. Liquid dissolves much easier and smells nicer too in my opinion
As some have said, the powder detergents sometimes fails to dissolve. Though I sometimes use a small amount of Napisan Oxi Action powder with my normal liquid detergent. I make sure that no residue is left in the dispenser tray after each wash to avoid mold growth n such and air out the front loader drum.
I use Cold Power powder and wash almost all my clothes (lots of sweaty workout gear) on cold washes and have never found non dissolved powder.
I second cold power for use with cold water.
Powder tends to last longer before it degrades. Choice tests tend to rank powders above liquids for what it's worth.
I've never had issues with powder not dissolving.
Which powder do you use?
I've been using Omo Ultimate for a while now and have found it to be generally good at getting stains out. If your clothes don't get too dirty and you like to do cold washes I've found Cold Power to be pretty good too and it's a bit cheaper.
Powder. Specifically Euca, aussie, safe, just works. Buy a big tub once every year or so.
If your powder is not disolving good chance its either crap or your machine is too full.
I use cheap Aldi powder and their napisan equivalent. No problems with stains, smelly clothes or the powders dissolving…if you're having issues, maybe you need a better washing machine?
But it's probably not too dissimilar to the top loader/front loader debate.
I use Cold Power powder for white and light coloured laundry and Radiant black wash liquid for black and dark coloured clothes. Reason being that cold power powder seems superior for getting out stains on light stuff but I think would fade dark stuff. The radiant black wash is expensive but works well, we bought a bunch in the old bottle format from catch.com but it also goes 1/2 price every now and then. There’s heaps of negative reviews of radiant black wash online, but it’s because they upped the price significantly a while back and devotees were angry. Recently tried Coles liquid whilst travelling, it was nowhere near as good.
Liquid and powder is probably the same stuff, but with liquid you are paying for them to deliver it with water already added.
Why do you think they sell ‘super concentrates’ because they don’t have to pay as much for shipping water around and they’ll figure you’ll use more than you normally would.
Don't drink drive, it's a washing powder :p
usually powder. minimum 40 celcius
currently using the washing sheets that were on OzB for $2 delivered
Powder 'cause it's cheaper.
That's the OZB way!
Liquid.
Use what you actually need, not just a capful or whatever they say on the bottle for all loads. Most loads don't really require that much detergent. It'll go a long way.
I've got a Bosch machine that automatically dispenses the liquid, I barely use a 1L a month and I'm washing every other day.
Liquid. Who has time for the powder. Are you meant to dissolve it in hot water or what, is there a risk of finding grains of powder in my clothes? I don't know and I don't want to find out. Liquid with softener built in is where it's at. I buy the bio-zet attack when it is half price, I heard it neutralizes pee molecules or something which regular detergent doesn't.