Testing an Ecoegg from ASDA
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2024
- Not my usual style of video, but when I saw this on sale in ASDA (UK chain formerly owned by Walmart), I was wondering whether the bold claims had any substance. The only way to find out was to test it.
This is basically a plastic shell filled with various beads, that claims to be an alternative to normal detergents, with a life of 50 or 70 washes. (70-wash as supplied and then smaller 50-wash refills.)
The white pellets are supposedly a concentrated surfactant (molecule that bonds with both water and oil), and the dark tourmaline pellets are supposed to ionise the water and make it more alkaline.
If the ball does liberate surfactants then keep in mind that it will also do so during the rinse cycles that are normally used to wash residual dirt and detergent out of your clothing.
The laundry industry is full of theatre with optical whiteners (ultraviolet fluorescing dye) that gives the impression of white clothing being brighter, and really pungent aromas that have been marketed to the point that people think that "fresh linen" is actually what fabric is supposed to smell like. Then there are the "softeners" that basically coat your clothing (and laundry equipment) in fragranced wax to give it a softer feel in the same way that oil and grease soaked overalls feel "soft" too.
You can wash most clothing in just plain water with no detergent, and it will rise out the natural bodily salts and dust, but it can leave a slight stale aroma after a while as plain water will not remove natural oils well. That's where it's useful to use a SMALL amount of detergent to help wash the oils out. I tend to use standard dish washing liquid, but be aware that some machines will foam excessively with dish soap and that can result in water spraying out the detergent drawer when the machine fills for a rinse. A small quantity of fabric conditioner washed down into the drum will get rid of foam virtually instantly.
While the laundry detergent manufacturers want you to pour huge quantities of their detergent into your machine, it only takes a small amount to clean normal clothing. Try using half the amount you normally use. The same goes for conditioner. If you want to use it to mask aromas then try using much less than normal.
The Ecoegg did impart a faint and fairly pleasant aroma onto clothing. And for non manual workers it may be enough to get satisfactory results. But for those of us who have physically active jobs a more traditional detergent may be a better option.
This may actually work for you if you alternate between conventional detergent and the use of the laundry ball to help cut down on chemical use.
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You're supposed to activate the granules by overnight soaking in snake oil before the first use.
Damn, I forgot to oil my snakes.
And chant nubulu for two hours before._
@Chrisamic I usually oil my snake every night before bed. I find it relaxing 😂😂
All this talk of snake oil and dryer balls raises the question: If you oil your snake too much, will your balls get too dry? 🤪
Is it Organic Snake oil ? does it prevent Climate change ?
Isle of Man is a soft water area, as is Manchester where I live. Consequently I get excellent results with 1/3 the manufacturers recommended dose of washing powder, and the dishwasher performs well with half a W5 Classic (Lidl) tablet with no prewash.
No discussion about detergent dosing is complete without reference to water hardness!
Exactly, I live in a soft water area, and washing with a quarter of the "manufacturer recommended" dose works well, unless there is heavy soiling, in which case I toss in some granular whitener. Does mean I will go a year or more on a packet of washing powder, washing once or twice a week, and your clothes last longer, and the machine does not build up a thick crud layer in the drum. Incidentally washing machine cleaner is cheap, a 5l bottle of white vinegar, and a hot long wash cycle, with no other detergent added, and it will have dark cloudy and flake filled water for the first part of the cycle, and the final rinse will be clear water.
Also a literal Easter egg, nice.
It was good timing.
@@bigclivedotcom I'd go even as far as saying it was eggcelent timing.
Ingredients listed on their site: Calcium carbonate, {Oxirane,2-(chioromethyl)-homopolymer}, Saponin, Sodium C14-16 Olefin sulfonate, Sodium carbonate, {Dodecan-1-ol, ethoxylated}, Aluminium hydroxide, Perfume. So, basically the same ingredients as any cheap laundry powder. It just dissolves much slower, especially in cold water.
They give no ingredients for the "tourmaline pellets", leaving me to assume it's just pelletized non-soluble minerals (saying "made of tourmaline" is as broad a statement as saying "made with semiconductor technology").
Was looking for this comment. It's just dry detergent. Just as bad.
Tumbled marble chips then...
Looks nice around plants in pots.
I thought they kinda looked a bit like molecular sieves but couldn't figure out if they'd have any real utility in this case. That and I believe they're stupid expensive.
"Tourmaline pellets" is another way of saying "sodium-based water softener".
The entire thing is a slight-of-hand trick for the poorly educated.
Like magically producing bread from flour, water and heat or using natural baking powder instead of chemicals like sodium bicarbonate for your cakes.
looks like peppercorns, what if you put them in a pepper shaker and grind the pellets into the washing machine? (it will make your ham sandwich taste terrible).
The heat gun squiggle gives the bench a nice personality.
I missed the vid that gave rise to the squiggle…
@@Steelyglint1000 Must have happened off camera. It has the same shape as one of those staples from that plastic welding video but the scorch mark just sort of appeared.
When I was in the Navy we used to just clean our clothes by putting them in a mesh bag, tying them to a railing, and throwing them over the side when we were under way. It takes about an hour and the clothes come out really clean. I think it's the salt.
It could also be the fish piss.
And if you're lucky, you'll catch your supper at the same time. 🐟
bullshit. putting on clothes with dried salt on them is the most uncomfortable thing ever. I don't believe you did this for a second.
@@thomasneal9291 Not being a naval person I cannot attest to it's recent use, but it was practiced historically:
ruclips.net/video/SgWh-5DsiQM/видео.htmlfeature=shared. About 2 minutes in.
@@thomasneal9291 I've never washed clothes in the ocean but have gone into the water wearing shorts and a t-shirt loads of times during summer, when it dries off it's always felt perfectly normal to me. Not uncomfortable at all.
i swear things like this only work because most people only wear clothes for 5 minutes before throwing in the wash. i wear the crap out of stuff and throw it in the wash when it needs washing. have tried similar things t these in the past and they did not seem to do anything, still had dirt and had an odd smell like they had just been rinsed and dried. i use half the amount of detergent than is recommended and that does the job perfectly.
try washing mechanics overalls with this thing if it can do that great if not I will keep using my soap the fact is if I wash it enough with just plan simple water any amount of oil and grease will come out now how much fabric is remaining after is another issue the soap option seems like the best option its been used for hundreds if not thousands of years in some form most often its rendered fat animal or plant rather its cooked or altered with lye or similar chemical its what we call soap the stuff that we take a bath with today sodium lauryl sulfate was first intended for cleaning industrial machinery not your hands nor bathing and now the solution is sudo soap
I've learned about "half amount detergent" tip just recently and it blew my mind. Cleans and rinses so much better and no more detergent/foam residue after the wash.
I would have thought that if you wore the crap out of stuff it wouldn't need washing at all - maybe just deodorising.
@@PaulG.x Crap dries, goes crispy and flakes off on it's own accord.
@@user-wp8ie1df7y sodium lauryl sulfate: not my choice at least skin grows back; fabric, not so mutch.
Persil changed their non-bio powder and I developed eczema after using the new powder. I bought an eco egg in desperation. My eczema began to slowly reduce in severity but my white clothes and white bed linen became grey started to develop an unpleasant odour. I gave up with the eco egg and began using fairy non bio. Clothes and bedding became clean and white again and eventually the eczema healed. Eco eggs are a total waste of money.
Ive heard using sodium percarbonate instead of detergent helps with allergies and works on whites as well.
My brother tried something like this for a while and it didn't work worth a darn either. Apparently most folks were not saying anything out of politeness, but since he was my brother my first reaction to him was, "Dude you smell like crap". Come to find out it wasn't him, but all of his clothes his bedding, etc. all smelled like old musty gym socks because of the accumulated oils/etc that were not being washed out of everything and then being compounded over time. He now uses detergents.
I like the variety. I also like the MRE vids - haven't seen those in a while 🙂
The ones with the Manx Beard Club trying food are good.
Do you mean ASMR?!
Clive should really give that a go if he hasn't already.
I'd suggest the one where the very classy blonde girl runs her fingers across the radiator grill of her Bentley & whispers _Bentley._ Then then Clive runs his fingers over the speaker grill of his Bush DAB radio & whispers _Bush._
That's a video that could really go places.
Water will remove sweat and dead skin cells but it won't do a thing for skin oil, other body fluids, or food stains; it can in fact permanently set oil-based stains in synthetic blends. You should always use detergent.
Incidentally, the exact same little pellets as the ones in those packets are being sold in Canada as laundry fragrance. They might not be as pointlessly malignant as dryer sheets but they're just as unnecessary.
Out of curiosity what's malignant about dryer sheets? Do they just do nothing or are they actually detrimental?
What are dryer sheets made of? What are they supposed to do, and who makes them?
An A'Merkin thing aren't they? I've never seen them here in Australia.
Most of us here use a backyard clothes line and only use dryers if we have days of rain. Otherwise why would you waste very expensive electricity and your time using a dryer?
The A'Merkins do weird stuff! 😂
@@ACME_Kinetics Dryer sheets are coated in fragranced wax. When the dryer runs this wax melts and coats your clothes and the dryer drum. Coating your clothes and towels in wax makes them less absorbent. It also builds up on the filter clogging that up over time
@@OddOzzy @OddOzzy Thank you. I'm OK with that, I'll keep using them in the winter - they really cut down on the static which can literally get painful when the air can't hold moisture.
Or if someone has a better solution to static electricity, by all means LMK.
Also just to give this a quick test, I ran my thumbnail on my ~5 year old dryer drum, and I did get a dark waxy substance. Eyeballing it, I'd say 10-20 milligrams. Keep in mind I only use dryer sheets for 2-3 months per year.
I had no idea I was interested in dryer sheets until today. Science, kinda.
@@ACME_Kinetics This was told to me aeons ago so I'm not entirely sure how accurate it is today; but the old lore was the rest of the world doesn't use dryer sheets because our electrical codes include a functional ground, apparently static just isn't a problem if you actually ground appliances correctly.
For the longest time in America 240v appliances have been 'grounded' using the neutral rather than a separate ground (the neutral being the centre tap of the transformer which makes two 120v phases from the 240v line voltage) and the appliance then powered using the two 120v phases (these have 120v of potential to the neutral centre tap or 240v with respect to each other).
Weighing the beads between uses might indicate how much of the product dissolves per use.You probably need to weigh them when fully hydrated.
This reminded me of the stainless steel "soaps" (in versions for both hands/body and washing machines, IIRC) that flooded our local eBay equivalent many moons ago. They came shortly after the magnetic fuel economizers...
Those stainless steel bars do one useful thing: they instantly remove garlic and onion odours from the hands. Or alternatively you can just rub your fingers briefly on a stainless steel sink or pot for the exact same effect.
Your comment about foam reminded me of an episode where an unnamed spouse ran out of electric dishwasher detergent and just filled the dispenser cup with dishwashing liquid. Responding to screams from unnamed spouse, I was greeted with a kitchen floor covered with foam and water. What a mess! It took my wet-or-dry shop vacuum a couple of runs to get all of the foam from the system. Gave my mop a good work-out also. Fortunately, the kitchen area floors are ceramic tile. I don't think the episode will be repeated any time soon.
I use sodium carbonate to wash laundry. I find it verry effective and it doesn't leave weird chemicals behind.
And finally!
Clean your washingmachine!
I put towels on a scald wash with an oxi action cleaner every couple months. Keeps the machine clean.
Oxi cleaners are what washing machine cleaners are made of.
Thats a BIG love egg. 😱🤣 mineral balls to wash clothes sounds different.
I stopped using fabric conditioner years ago, and use much less washing liquid. I dont really get that dirty often. so its more to freshen them up. 2x👍
We've been using this (along with the dryer eggs) for a couple of years or so and we've liked it. Things come out clean with a pleasant fragrance, and one portion of pellets lasts a long time.
I guess like with anything, everyone has different experiences with products.
I misread the thumbnail text as "LEGENDARY DETERGENT ALTERNATIVE" 🤣
ULTRA RARE EASTER EGG LOOT DROP **GONE WRONG**
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An awful lot of those "Tourmaline" negative ion gimmicks are actually thorium dioxide. Check your pellets with a geiger or cloud chamber.
No radiation.
We've had one for several years now. It does a little bit more than washing with just water, and is fine for general stuff, but sweaty workwear and household cleaning cloths need detergent.
We're mostly using fragrance free Smol at present, though the egg goes in from time to time if something just needs a light clean.
I want to thank you very much Mr Clive for what I have learned from your videos and for entertaining me thank you very much
a friend complained to a laundry powder maker about his collars not being clean after washing. they explained that laundry detergents were a compromise and advised him to rub dishwashing detergent on the collars when they weren't being cleaned properly by just using laundry detergent.
Regular-strength Dawn liquid dish detergent works wonders on ring-around-the-collar. Apply with a clean toothbrush as a pre-treat right before tossing into the washer. If they're white shirts, add powdered bleach or bleach in tablet form to the wash cycle. 😃
I switched from fabric softener to vinegar.
Supposedly it helps prevent scale and detergent-gunk buildups, but an interesting thing I found out after gradually switching to vinegar (from 0 to 1:1 to only vinegar in the softener compartment) is that I'm mildly allergic to fabric softener.
I also heard about running a program on an empty machine but for some vinegar to remove washing machine smell and scale etc, similar to what you've mentioned about a program with empty machine only fabric softener.
Vinegar tends to accelerate corrosion in washing machines though.
@@ericoppel5698 And it's not good for rubber seals, so I learnt recently. But how acidic is it going to be diluted at 1 cup to ~ 20 litres of water?
That's a very good question. But with the cost of a decent washing machine nowadays, I don't want to find out the hard way. Maybe time for a science experiment? Or at least a ph test! 😂
Well if you're adding vinegar 10-30 ml (usa 1-2 tablespoons) to at least 10 liters of water, last rinse cycle.. it is not going to be much. (here "vinegar" has 10% vinegar acid, not sure if translation is correct)
@@ericoppel5698 washing machines tend to fail nowadays from gunk and scale buildup, vinegar breaks down both of these,
My wife and I have used these for around 8 years with excellent results. Sometimes we do need a booster for stains or to help with whites, then we add a scoop of Sodium Percarbonate. I suffer from open wounds which bleed and so our bedding gets quite stained, but we always find the Sodium Percarbonate will erase these marks completely. Also for the tumble dryer, we use six woollen dryer balls fragranced with some essential oil. Lavender is really lovely on bedding and helps you fall asleep easily. Occasionally we may use ecoegg's stain removal spray; this too works like magic. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing beats an old top-loader, scalding-hot water, and detergent with trisodium phosphate for cleaning clothes.
You just described my usual washing method.
You absolutely NEED laundry detergent to disolve all the (skin) grease from your clothing. Water alone does nothing. Using only water will make your clothes reek horribly after very few weeks.
Exactly. It's like showering without soap. You can do it a couple of times but then you need soap.
....I stopped using fabric conditioner and perfumed laundry detergents when my eczema started acting up many years ago. I find it 'interesting' that a machine that had earlier been used with these products leaves my cloths smelling perfumed. Pervasive stuff.
OMO Sensitive is a good product in Australia for those with eczema. I tend to use about a quarter of the recommended dosage and get excellent results....
...Front loader washing machines can certainly generate hilarious amounts of foam if the wrong detergent is used. Sadly the Earth leakage breaker trips and spoils things when the foam engulfs the machines innards....click
tip, add baking soda to an empty wash cycle on hot. Should take out most of the long-lasting waxes (which is what most fabric softeners are)
@@vaelophisnyx9873 - with most modern washers = self-clean program
Or the stuff someone else mentioned, sodium percarbonate. Breaks down to sodium carbonate (washing soda) and hydrogen peroxide. Also available as Vanish but comparatively expensive and with lots of filler.
White vinegar instead of fabric conditioner does a great job of softening and deodorising clothes.
Washing up liquid works great for grease and sweat stains. I was always told to use 1tsp of washing up liquid per 3kg of lights or 4kg of darks.
Nice, glad to see you're diversifying into covering laundry hacks!
his a man of many talents, am sure, many more to come? 🙂
"Oh no. They're everywhere." made me wake up my cat by laughing too loudly.
Clothes washer tip... If your washer smells funky, when you lift open the lid... This is due (in great part) to lint, human hair and pet hair accumulating between the plastic inner agitator/washing tub and the tank that it sits in. The best method of maintenance is to pull the plastic tub and remove the accumulations from the tank. This removes the smell and the friction (against the tub,) caused by the gunk. There are many YT videos on how to do this maintenance. Now, you can stop buying the washer freshening chemicals. HTH. Cheers.
bad smell is usually caused by microorganism- fungus or bacteria. lint, human or pet hair is usually odorless.
Washing without detergent not recommended for delicate items(ruined some expensive, unreplaceable curtains by forgetting the detergent). Detergent also has lubricating properties protecting delicates from machine's aggressive agitation action, even at 50% recommended amounts. Bleach good for getting out perilous things. Soaking for a day or even a week with a rub-on prewash with get out some stains you never thought possible.
Interesting review, thanks.
Perhaps weighing the thing before and then after a few uses would have demonstrated if the balls were dissolving and how long they might last.
I used to never use detergent. Clothes were just as clean as if I used it. Most of what you're cleaning is water-soluble. So if this product did absolutely nothing, it would still appear as though it worked.
The perfect product to test on Easter Sunday. 🐣 🐰
For the Hunters out there . Optical brighteners can make you shine like a flood light to certain animals and birds.
Good. Find a better hobby.
@@YesIAmSmarterThanYouPleaseCope be careful you don't step on a spider or an ant.
People who don't understand that (most) hunting provides a needed service to maintain animal populations disturbed by urbanization, and keep a niche open to preserve millions of species, are often the same people who think they are doing the environment a favor by demonizing it. But to change the subject, some people have little goggles that make anyone, say, at a protest, stand out if they use such chemicals on their clothing. It might be useful to know for social issues too depending on your perspective.
Although I am not a hunter, I have always had and still have several dogs, so I imagine that the best solution is to never wash your hunting clothing and if possible roll in the excrements and rotting corpses of various animals before going hunting 😓
I do know a few hunters who say that they literally wash their hunting clothing in female pig pee. I have never seen them in person when they went hunting so I have no idea what their camouflage scent might be like... and I'm not interested in -knowing- *smelling* it either 😬
@@nobodynoone2500 Just send lions.
If you're supposed to put in all four packets at once, why not just combine them into one packet to begin with?
You are only meant to put one pack of the white in with the black ones then top-up the white ones with another bag once they've dissolved more and there's less of them...
I've been through most of the comments so far. The one thing I will say is ''hard water" will completely change how much and even what you need to clean clothing! I live in a very hard water area and without enough strong detergents it's a waste of time washing them. They just don't get clean and get covered in white powder.
Thats been solved for generations. Its called Baking Soda for simple hard water and Washing Soda for really hard water.
detergents are synthetic (petrochemicals) product and are not affected by hard water (to a degree). Traditional soaps (made from fats and oils) do not work in hard water. Most washing powders contains lots of water softeners- usually phosphate based. Many countries have banned phosphate containing detergents and they have chelating agents for water softening. Today most washing powders (or solutions) do not have any soap.
I started doing himanitarion work and we get to eat MRE food, I was very glad I already saw some of your video's about it!
Mrs Chinny got one of these after her mate was going on about them. Total snake oil. I am convinced it only initially works because of residual powder in the machine because it seemed to do naff all after a while.
Yes!
The inly time i use fabric softener is in the event ive over used the Fairy.
I use fairy mixed with water and sprayed onto stains and rinced.
Laundry detergents can be quite simple mixes.
The original "Persil' for instance:
"Henkel & Cie, founded in Düsseldorf in 1876, pursued the opportunity, and on 6 June 1907 launched the first of its kind product, Persil. The manufacturer had found a method to add sodium perborate-a bleaching agent-to its base washing agents (silicate)"
Sodium Percarbonate is all that is needed. When dissolved in water it forms hydrogen peroxide and sodium carbonate (washing soda) both are environmentally safe in the concentrations used for washing.
Or you can go for the commercial version of sodium percarbonate and pay a lot more for a small amount of product and lots of filler. It's called Vanish.
You don't want to use vanish, as it has zeolite in it..
Also reason why washing detergent has many ingredients is ECO machines, old ones took less than hour for full load. Now they skimp on temp and water and literally your clothes swim in sh1t for hours.
Now you need all kinds of chemicals to keep dirt not attaching back to clothes etc. If you're interested I recommend to read more! Remember that not all detergents are the same!!
@@Tsiikki Yes, I was being sarcastic. These fillers, even zeolite, are unlikely to do any harm unless someone has an allergy but it is so unnecessary to to add them AND pay extra for doing so. Sodium percarbonate is very cheap in comparison.
Vanish is expensive, but it also contains TAED (Tetraacetylethylenediamine), an oxi-bleach activator, which converts the Hydrogen Peroxide to Peracetic acid, which is more effective oxi-bleach that will also work well at lower temperatures. You can get both quite cheaply in washing powders for whites. There's a Warwick Chemicals benefits of TAED video on youtube.
@@chrishartley1210I buy straight sodium percarbonate from a local supplier.
The commercial "oxy" products seem to be 10 ~20% percarbonate
I learned many years ago that there are only a handful of companies that make all the major brands of laundry detergent, with the two dominant ones being Proctor & Gamble and Unilever. Almost all of the big brands you see on the shelves are made by these two with four or so smaller companies making up the rest. Pretty much all of the brand names are fairly identical in their performance with minor differences when it comes to fragrance, or some additives like bleaching agents. I find the cheaper ones, including supermarket own brands, perform just as well as the big names given they will also be made by one of these handful of companies.
We've used one of these for a year now, and as Clive and others suggest it's not a replacement for detergent for items which are heavily soiled, or have a lot of oil or grease on them. However for the 'dailies' - stuff like socks, pants, t-shirts which are mostly clean but smell sweaty etc - it works brilliantly.
Great review. You keep up the great work. Love your RUclips videos
This is what I love about working for a factory authorized appliance repair facility. I get all the free detergent and softener samples I want, same for dishwasher stuff 😁
The idea of Paying Clive to say nice things about it had me rolling..
Did anyone remark Clive has the same shirt on😂😂😅😅
I have the blue and the pink egg, I switch them out. I've always (3years) use them for sport clothing (which smells) in a 30minute less than 3kg wash, never had a problem. But if you leave your close a while in the machine after washing it will smell stale. Thanks for the video.
I also used to use a bit of plain dishwashing soap and it worked great, as well as costing a mere fraction of the cost of laundry detergent.
Uploading this on easter, nice touch
Thanks for sharing Big Clive. Interesting. I have been using these little laundry soap sheets. They're about 2.5 x 3.5 inches. I think they're fine.
Sheets? Like a kleenex tissue dispenser?
This is a good video for April
How long before we see an ebay listing for it calling it a ionic de-icer :)
Or these days, a quantum ionic anti-viral anti-odour laundry clothes sanitiser
You really need something with enzymes, especially for food or grease stains.
Thanks Clive! You saved me the experiment :-)
The pong from most laundry detergents makes me sneeze.......
I have wondered if these things actually work...thank you for doing this experiment!
One thing I noticed was the originally grey balls ended up being black after the two weeks you used them...not sure what that means :)
Hey Clive we were disappointed we thought you would do a white Y front with skid marks removal test.LOL
I wear black pants to avoid visible skids.
@@bigclivedotcom Pants or underwear ?? U go commando ??
@@bigclivedotcom You live on black coffee, licorice and Guinness? 🤔
In our house we call that perma-skid. It never comes out
Liquid detergent from a refill shop for me. Excellent point about the pellets being present during rinse cycle - kind of gives the game away, what with the cooler washes we do these days.
Consider that there are more reasons for using a washing detergent than only the clothes itself.
Normal washing powder also contains de-scaler, which will help to protect the heating element from getting damaged.
Also using a higher temperature for e.g. underwear will protect against mold and bad smells from the machine.
Best price and performance ratio has normal powder. Bleach is also a component than can only be in powder products.
Liquid ones must use optical whitners and conservative ingredients to be same effective as powder. Can be cheap and good also.
The pod ones are the stupidest. You pay like up to 50cts per washing pod, and the dose sais that it is only for 5kg. For more (usual case for families) you are recommended to use two. So you pay up to 1€ only for detergent and you dose 200%
Having a color powder and one for white is the best and cheapest solution, also for the environment. (28cts per wash)
I'm trying the Smol pods - great introductory offers and easy to cancel. They suggest two pods for a full load but one is more than enough. The price of those doesn't look too bad as you cut out the middle man. The benefit with pods (in our machine at least) is you can set a delay and use electricity overnoght when there is less demand and it's therefore cheaper on some tarrifs. Our machine cannot use liquid detergent on a delayed cycle and I just don't like powders... we already breath enough pollutants. I even switched to bamboo tissues as the paper ones create so much dust and when you think it's usually bleached that makes me cringe.
@@thebrowns5337 Although the pods do come in plastic casings, so you might end up with plastic pollution instead all over your clothes.
The oxygen bleach found in some powders, on top of removing stains, kills bacteria and mould in both the washing and the machine. Bacteria, mould and grime build up (biofilm) in the machine is the main cause of aluminium spiders prematurely corroding, as well as making washing machines stink and causing grey and black marks on washing, often black dots matching the drum hole pattern. Leaving the door open between washes also helps to prevent mould.
I've only ever had a smelly machine when regularly using liquid detergents.
Some powders also contain an ingredient that acts as a corrosion inhibitor for the aluminium spider. I think sodium silicate might be one, although its main purpose is listed as a "builder".
full marks for cleanly cutting open the sachets - I'd have just ripped them open ( and most likely got them all over the floor)
I read the soap article in my 1984 World Book Encyclopedia as a young boy.
If I recall correctly, soap grabs oils, particles and bacteria and holds on to them, looking them in a microscopic bubble of surface tension, allowing it to be rinsed away. That's why we still use good 'ol soap despite all the antibacterial soaps and "all natural" blends.
Washing up liquid for dishes in the washing machine? Just imagining the suds! I remember my grandad put Fairy in his car windscreen washers. The results were hilarious!
Yes, but a tiny drop of washing up liquid on a wet cloth is absolutely superb for wiping the inside of the car windscreen. I prevents the glass steaming up on a cold morning, but whatever you do, DO NOT wipe a steamed up windscreen with your bare hand because the skin oil creates a real mess.
Good to meet someone who shuns laundry detergent and had discovered that water alone, assisted by a squirt of washing up liquid (dish soap) is usually sufficient for all but heavily soiled laundry. Washing soda (sodium carbonate) is a good traditional ingredient for shifting tough and greasy stains. Best of all, by avoiding fancy detergents and their overpowering stench of perfume, you can enjoy the subltle and evocative aroma of ozonic compounds. Nature’s own fragrance made when laundry is line dried in the sun.
Depends on how much you use... obviously.
My laundry detergent suggests 78g for an average wash. I use a little scoop from a well-known milkshake product and the washing powder it holds weights 23g. Works perfectly
It appears to be mostly coalesced powdered detergent which doesn’t dissolve enough to be effective. Tourmaline is crystalline, so hard to say what those gray pellets are. Tourmaline comprises metals complexed with borates and silicates. If those gray pellets dissolve, perhaps they give off grit which will have some mechanical effect at scouring off dirt. Might as well buy some cheap detergent.
I’m suspicious of new-agey gadgets which require substantial gratuitous user engagement with the product, presumably leading to a subliminal sensation of: this is complicated, so it must be good.
I bought one during my lockdown furlough, they don't work as well, and agree a stale smell was apparent. The addition of some washing up liquid is fine, and I'm using less soap now, which is better for the environment!
As an ex hospital medical equipment tech. there are actually stipulations to how you wash your uniform ie. 30°C!
It does also help, like the old tennis ball trick, to pummel clothes to a certain extent.
PS for years I've also done a cold water wash first; several things (famously blood) will set if in a hot wash. Some synthetic silicone oils, and greases, I used at work were problematic, I never did cure those, apart from a direct treatment... I don't know what they do as pollutants?
Some of the stuff I used in my other life as a Brass Musical Instrument Technician was nasty ie. Trich 1.1.1. and some pretty nasty Acids etc. the factory in London used to be monitored!
I joined Amway back in the early 80s. This lasted about 2 months until I realized that almost everyone I was trying to sell to had also joined Amway. So I quit but I was left with 10 large boxes of concentrated powder laundry detergent. Pretty good laundry detergent as it turned out. About 1 heaping tablespoon was enough for the average load. I met my future wife during this time and she wondered why I had so much laundry detergent. But she didn't complain :-)
So you use dishwashing liquid for your laundry and your dishes
I would be interested to know if you stuck those beads in water if they dissolve and if so how long to dissolve
Happy Easter!! I HOPe your laundry is clean and it makes you HOPpy. I have 2 children and my dad jokes have gotten worse the more kids I have. Someone please help me. Lol
Persil powder is the only product I use - all the other brands smell horrible - and fabric softener has become so pungent and nauseating 😳 I miss the old days when it was just lenor or comfort and you had two choices - it smelled a lot better back then . I’m almost tempted to try this
Totally agree. And then, there’s those “fragrance booster” little waxy pellet thingies that you’re supposed to use, in addition to the stinky fabric softener. Really, just how overly perfumed do people want their clothes? Personally it makes me feel sick and unable to breathe. Horrible.
By the way, back when borax was allowed, before the perborates were replaced with percarbonates, we didn’t even need fabric softener - the borax did an excellent job all by itself. Before the 1980s, almost nobody used fabric softeners. Nowadays, it’s essential otherwise your towels absorb water about as well as concrete does. Oh progress…
The granules do reduce over time as I've had to refill mine. I don't know whether it is better than tap water, but it does the job.
Isopropanol is also very good at reducing foam from washing up liquid. I make my own foaming hand soap by diluting liquid soap with some water and a shot of isopropanol. Without the isopropanol, the foaming pump will only produce bubbly goo.
That's exactly how I felt when I used "washing balls" they had the same sort of stones inside a green plastic ball with. I tried them for a few weeks and went back to laundry detergent. Given that just water does get clothes reasonably clean perhaps just reducing the amount of detergent and condition used would provide a better value for money saving. The blurb on mine said "will save you up £100 over the life time of the laundry balls", the laundry balls were not that cheap either. Quackery!
So what you're saying is Walmart sells quack products ofer there as well as here, i'm not surprised. PS I think a little vinegar knocks down sudsing
No longer owned by Walmart - it's now "owned" by TDR and the Issa brothers (of eg filling stations fame) who effectively got Asda to take a loan out against itself whilst they only put in a small fraction of the value... not in the least bit shady practice...
suds are nothing but detergent encrusted grease and grime particles that have fallen from the solution. Commercial detergents are alkali-loving and acids (vinegar) will fix them (make them permanently insoluble)
Would be hard to design a worst system for dispensing laundry detergent, which is basically what the "mineral" beads actually are. You want the detergent to dissolve as quickly as possible so it starts doing its job right from the start of the wash, but this will slowly dispense a small amount of detergent through the course of the wash and even during the rinsing cycles, although you are supposed to remove the egg before it starts rinsing. You want to be able to adjust the amount to use more if stuff is really dirty, this won't dispense a controlled amount, because how much dissolves will vary by the length of the wash, how hot the water is, how much remains in the egg, how long it has had to dry since last use, etc, although you are supposed to only use the quick wash and low temperature with it. This will also dispense very little, unlikely to be enough to clean heavily soiled washing or protect the washing machine from grime and bacterial build up resulting in spider corrosion and premature failure.
Bachelor tip:don't go putting fairy in your washing machine 😂
Unintended foam party? 😂
@@xplosivpoison which would be great, if you didn't have to be the one to clean it up afterwards 😂
Where were you when I fist moved out of my dad's?
Pellet tip: do not put scented crap in your laundry.
@@mehere8299 for sure. I'm allergic to most perfumes so I use just plain detergent whenever possible.
I have the original version of these bought from the original manufacturer via QVC or Ideal World.
There area two... One you put brown balls plus white balls with optical brightener and another with brown balls and white balls without an optical brightener.
You do not see significant reduction in the white balls with one wash, indeed I am still on the first or second pack refill after many years - too long to remember
For general washes where clothes and bedding have no stains they work well enough.
For stains or heavy soiling I find I need an additional in wash stain remover and sometimes spot stain treatment with something a little stronger.
I'm not convinced they do much but an going to start adding non bio stain remover - my skin doesn't tolerate bio ones - as I have inherited loads and might as well use it, but even for heavy straining I need spot treatment or in wash stain remover even with the non bio.
Whatever is in the white balls does not cause any skin reaction so in that way they are ok for light washes
Been using one for months for 'normal' loads. Works fine.
I once saw in a local Aldi a medium sized bottle of their brand of fabric conditioner. The shelf label included the price 'per 100ml' as well as the bottle price of £1.69, amusingly the potion must have been very scarce and the contents heavily diluted. The price per 100ml was quoted as £169.00. "UK's cheapest supermarket 2023"
I bet someone accidentally told their system it was a 1ml bottle they were selling. Data entry on product info is tedious and it's easy to miss something like that when the only thing it affects is the sticker.
@@wolfgangmcqYou are most likely correct, I could not resist the temptation to acquire photographic evidence ...
It appears to be just right as grape shot for a potato cannon. Nothing beats a good surficant and deterring agent mix. I make my own, to save costs. Thank you, keep working.
One parallel problem I experienced when trying one of those was the unbalanced distribution of the weight of the load which caused unpleasant vibrations while centrifuging. I guess not good for the washing machine either.
I started using the pre-wash feature for every wash. It only adds 10 minutes to the overall time and I split the powder half and half. The reasoning is that the pre-wash takes out most of the oils and dirt which get rinsed away. Then the main wash does its normal thing but "starts again" with fresh water and detergent.
You also gotta pay attention to what kind of materials you wash, if using sometimes like dishsoap or even regular enzyme based detergents. A lot of these modern "technical" fabrics can take rough wear but not enzyme wash/soak - they need an enzyme free detergent (like wool and silk detergent). Same with wool and wool blends. If you give those a go with regular detergent or dish soap it immediately strips all the lanolin from the wool fibers.
I tried these to reduce using the softener as much as it molds the machine up over time. My quick wash worked the same with these but I did use a wash pod with liquid soap and softener every 3rd wash to ensure proper cleaning. May work just as well with plain water not 100% sure. I'm now back to using detergent all the time, just because the clothes smell better after!
I use dryer balls in the tumble dryer and they help to dry the clothes and bit quicker. They are about the size of a tennis ball and made of some sort of plastic and you place then in the tumble dryer with the clothes and the clothes come out?? I'm not sure if the dryer balls riley work or not. Any way I brought then in Maidstone Market some years ago and didn't pay much for then so I will carry on using then until the plastic falls apart due to the heat
I have used this exact ecoegg (blue one but now using these blossom pellet refills as they're nicer) for somewhere between 8-10 years, and they do indeed work! The white pellets do get smaller over a long time. The smell you mention, it usually happens if you mix some heavier fabrics (like jeans) with lighter weave fabrics. So some are a bit more saturated than others, and the natural scent can seem a tad musty. Other than that the only smell you will have from them is the material itself, which you get used to over time (eg the lack of heavily scented artificial smells). They do indeed work, and VERY well; its the only thing I've ever used for laundry over those years, the only exceptions being muddied or heavily soiled stuff, where I add dettol cleanser for the rinsing \ "fabric conditioner" bit of the cycle (so after the main wash with the ecoegg, to ensure no bugs or strong smells remain) and a couple of occasions where motor type oil and\or sealants that are greasy, a booster is normally needed. Other than that your normal daily wear and stains, this thing works, and VERY well. Much, much cheaper than any liquid, powder, or tablet detergent. 🎉 Far better for the environment too!
You seem over the top about these things, compared to almost everyone else who's found them to be crap.
Sodium Bicarb (Baking Soda) pH 8-9
Sodium Carb (Washing Soda) pH 11
Both are very cheap, have a history of absolutely working.
Baking Soda is fine for most general laundry, Washing soda for those really dirty/greasy situations only as it is hard on textures.
BTW, most people _won't_ tell you to your face that you stink or have an odor.
@@boots7859 just sharing my experience, which yes, is wildly different from many others. You have to regularly top them up, and washing in a warmer wash temp works better too. I actually am always complemented on my scent, thanks very much 😂
@@boots7859 Baking Soda + heat = Washing Soda + CO2 -
the CO2 is why the stuff You're baking rises
As soon as foam builds up, you have used too much detergent. Simple as that. Now here is the trick: detergent manufacturers add silicon oil to suppress foaming. Only to trick you into using more of their stuff. Use little of their "magic power", use high temperatures, don't use the fast program of your washing machine, don't use fresheners/softeners, dry in the sun if possible (UV-radiation does a great job). Don't forget, the manufacturers want to earn money by selling you as much as possible.
This inspired me to try machine cleaner. That detergent to clean lathes, mills and so. It really does a great job in removing all that oily stuff. I learned that at work. And it is cheap.
Tried using washing up liquid in the wash when I was a student. Ten minutes after putting my knickers on my fanny felt like I'd used a bidet full of piri piri.
Hmmmm. Carolina reaper in the dryer drum would be an exciting stunt.
😂
@@bigclivedotcom Exciting stunt or burning c .
They're not just bits of pelletized industrial waste with some temporary stink added?
They could be anything.
A growing number of these "Tourmaline negative ion" products are thorianite or just straight thorium dioxide.
Did you see the new AirWick mist diffuser out Clive (has 4 settings, and a new light on top) the v.3
Ah, that is a new one. I'll try and find one - a bit harder here.
Try a half cup to a cup of vinegar with the detergent and it will increase the power of it ( by softening the water) and removes most odors. It works very well and is simple enough to do it every time.
They cost me a fortune long-term. Whilst smacking my smalls against a rock, their egg shape means the vibration makes them roll into the river, get washed away and require constant replacement ...
I've been using these for six months or so. They work just about for your basic washes if you put on a longer wash but not for deep stains at a low temp. At hotter temperatures you get better results but then that's not really eco. For really dirty clothes I still use my old brand.
I've been using these for years. I was interested because they sell a perfume-less version. I hate the stink that the detergent manufacturers call perfume or outdoor fragrance or whatever. It is stink that people have been brainwashed into thinking that that is how laundry should smell.
My clothes come out clean and odourless. I don't tumble dry so the gentle, natural dry perhaps helps. If something is stained (mud, ketchup or the like) I might be tempted to use oxyaction stain remover, which works but can leave its own stink. I also do add the limescale preventer tablet as the water here is very hard indeed. My friend was not happy because white clothes for work were grey (no fluorescent chemicals to hide the grey with emitted blue-white light) so she switched back to detergent.
The beads do wear down or dissolve or whatever. Because you are not using detergent the rinse is just a second wash.
It looks like a corn puff cereal (KIX). Now I want some KIX. Thank's Big Clive.
No mains water: we rely on captured rain... no issues with water softness. However, if your water is laced with minerals, your surfactants might need a bit of a boost.
A defunct shopping channel used to sell something very similar to this.
Use white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. It keeps the machine fresh too, no rank smells when it's empty either.