It doesn't work that way, making the water softer. How ever it may (Should) stabilze the Suds so you think it is working better. Suds don't wash clothes, too much suds actually interfer with soil removal. About once a week we would get a letter that our washing powder didn't produce enough suds so they would add another whole scoop and it didn't clean as well. after a couple of years of that we realized we were selling twice as much powder to dopes and just let it go with a suggestion to cut back on the powder. Americans tend to think that if a little is good twice as much is better. If you raise chickens and one cock is keeping the ladies happy is adding a second cock going to make them twice as happy? No Way!Farmfresh said:All of that stuff our old detergents and cleaners were full of that we did not know about is one reason I started using the homemade laundry soaps. That AND they were costing me a fortune.
gd it is really nice to have a chemist on board here.You could teach us a lot! I have heard that adding plain salt to the basic laundry recipe will aid the hard water situation. What is your take on that?
If I tell you that Sodium Salt of Alkyl Dodecyl Sulfonate Heptahydrate (required official name on the label) = Soap made from Coconut Oil would that make you feel better or get your clothes any cleaner? The government makes regulations that don't help anyone and the manufacturers have to go along with them. lol
