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Green washing that does NOT wash
This is NOT cosmetics-related, but I thought maybe some people here would find it amusing, I hope.
I am very skeptical/cynical of most of the “green” cleaning products, ESPECIALLY laundry strips, that are all the rage.
A laundry strip is about 1.5 grams, according to my precious scale. Of that, probably 1 gram is the corn starch, polyvinyl alcohol & glycerin that create the strip itself (I’m assuming). These are the 1st 3 ingredients in their ingredient list.
This is what I did:
I dirtied up a large piece of an OLD, wrecked, bed sheet with coffee grounds, soil, ketchup, melted milk chocolate bar. I let it dry for a few weeks. I was going to also sacrifice some red wine for this trial, but we drank it instead.
I cut the filthy bed sheet piece into equal-sized pieces for the detergents I was testing.
Each sample was washed separately in COLD WATER (except for the hot water sample) with whatever detergent I was testing according to the SMALL LOAD directions.
I let each sample hang to dry.
I laughed heartily at the results. Next day, I laughed some more, looking at the results.
I am very happy that the laundry powder I use, GRANNY’S, seems to work as well as Tide. Woopee!
I hope the very top of the photo is visible, because I wrote the samples on the top of each fabric strip with a marker.
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5 Replies
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Your life is so wild 😆
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Man, you don’t know the HALF of it! 🤪
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Great test! Thanks for sharing!
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I love the artistry and creativity. If you want to make it more challenging, add some ink to the combo, and of course, some red wine (either a cheap one, or perhaps a bottle that a bad boyfriend gave you long time ago).
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I WAS going to sacrifice some red wine, but we drank it instead 🍷 😃. It was sad enough to sacrifice the 4 little milk chocolate bars I had (from a coffee shop) for the trial.
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