An Exploration of Laundry Myths

Hi everyone. I had a great time in New York City. The nausea from the plane ride is gone now.  Later this week, I’ll share some photos from NYC, but for now I want to tell you about some things I learned at the Bubbles & Bubbly Event.

Myth #1 – More suds mean cleaner clothes.

Fact – More suds do not mean cleaner clothes. In fact, using too much soap can cause keep your clothes from getting clean and it can leave an oily residue on them.

Myth #2 – It’s ok to use regular detergent in an HE (high efficiency) machine.

Fact – You should always use an HE detegent in an HE machine.   Oops. I thought you could just use less until I saw this.

At the Wisk Bubbles & Bubbly event, our scientist Kristin had us perform a little experiment. We put three drops of regular Wisk detergent in one cup of water and three drops of Wisk HE in another cup. We put the lids on a did some shaking. Each time, there were less suds with the HE detergent and the suds dissolved faster! There really is a difference in the two types of detergents. In case you’re wondering, you can use HE detergent in a regular washing machine.

Myth #3 – HE detegents don’t clean as well as other detergents.

Fact – HE detergents clean just as well.  The HE detergents are specially formulated to create less suds, but they have the same cleaning power.

Kristin gave us a grass stain and had us “paint” something on our grass stain using the regular Wisk and the Wisk HE detergents. Then we swished the detergent around in the bucket of water. Taa-daaa. Which is the regular Wisk and which is the Wisk HE? I can’t tell!

Those are the three laundry myths today. And I almost forgot . . . I’m in a Youtube video. Please don’t make fun of my hick sweet country accent.

Did you learn anything new from our laundry myth exploration?

images (c) Karen Weideman