I recieved a large bottle of 'Comfort Pure Concentrate' free in my Bounty pack.

I assumed it was clothes washing liquid to put in the washing machine. DP says it's softener that you put in as well as soap, and it makes the clothes softer.

It tells me how much I should put in the washing machine, but it doesn't actually say on the bottle what it's for. It just assumes that I know, which makes me wonder if this is a very silly question indeed.

Can anyone enlighten me?

It is softener yes (amazed that your dp knows that!)

You dilute it and put it in the final rinse.

And what is its purpose exactly? Clothes are already soft. It's one of the things I most like about them.

a bonkers product invented by Procter and Gamble or somesuch. Our Grannies never had it! Once you've sold people everyting they need, start inventing things they don't nedd and convince them to buy them!

It makes you spend more money and adds some extra fake smells like "black pearl and silk" or some such nonsense.

<<Indith goes to put her washing on with eco balls>>

Ahh. An expensive fake smell product that makes something inherently soft, err, soft.

How have I lived so long without it?

I find it very useful with DH's clothes as they stink from his running. Masks the smell nicely without having do boil wash!

I can't believe people DON'T use fabric softener in the wash. Clothes feel so much nicer with it.

It keeps things looking nice for longer too...also stops static and things feeling hard - like acrylic ' woollens'. I always use it. Don't ever dilute it down though!

PeaGreene, try putting OXI wash in wth DH's running stuff. It really does get shot of nasty niffs. I once got salmon oil down a top(don't ask!) and really thought I'd end up throwing it away as it not only left a stain, but it smelled awful. One wash with the said stuff and GONE!!!no stain or smell.

Oh! but use the multi colour one, NOT the whites only one or your coloureds will look very odd!

I believe you won't find it much use if your clothes are already soft without it.

I use it because I live in a VERY hard water area and my washing dries like cardboard.

of your soft water/clothes.

well, we have very soft water so maybe that explains my clothes being soft without the help of this stuff. But where I grew up we had very hard water and I really don't remember my Mum saying 'thank goodness for this new miracle product'
plus, why would you want your clothes to smell? surely you want them to not smell?

While we're talking about washing products, can I complain about the new Persil non-bio formula? It's supposed to give clothes a "just washed feel" ( - you have just washed them) but it now stinks of cheap scent, like 4711 cologne, which lingers on the clothes and overpowers everything else. I have spent weeks trying to find a different non-bio that doesn't reek of sweets or some other 'fragrance' that doesn't give me a headache . WHY do they all smell so strongly, I HATE washing powder smell on my clothes?!

I know, we have that at the moment because we ran out of ecover and the whole house smells of it. Ecover non bio has no smell.

mablemurple, we use asda own brand non bio liquid, I don't think it smells fragranced or anything.

also I keep seeing adverts for stuff that keeps releasing scent throughout the day

why would I want that to happen?

Our grannies didn't have fabric softner liquids, but they did have bicarb, which does much the same thing in hard water areas.