How many products do you put in with a wash?

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On a Facebook group someone asked if her 5 products she put a photo of was too much. Now others are saying they also put 5 or more different products in the machine.

Am I missing something,? Does EVERYONE do this? I just do a laundry capsule. Unless it's maybe heavily stained/special type of wash etc.

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Cheapest own brand washing powder and a bit of comfort pure softener. Occasionally a bit of vanish spray on any stains before the wash. I don't like anything heavily scented, it makes me feel sick and gives me a headache.

I used to use colour catchers, until one blocked the washing machine filter mid wash! I couldn't get it to do anything because it wouldn't carry on the wash as the filter was blocked so I had to manually drain a washing machine, that sounds easier than it is, believe me every thing in the kitchen got wet! Then I was able to dig out the colour catcher from the filter. Never again!

I really hope the poster means fairy laundry liquid.

I accidentally put a towel in the washer after using it to mop up a broken bottle of washing up liquid that came with the shopping.

Bubbles for days

I think a pp means Fairy Laundry (liquid) Detergent. Not the washing up liquid!

I use some form of liquid tabs, fabric conditioner if needed. Occasionally if I remember I throw some soda crystals in (hard water area) for some reason my machines doesn’t dissolve the washing powder properly so you end up with white streaks on everything that’s why I use liquid tabs.

I may use some white stuff for whites and pre treat any stains bloody dc2 and hot dinners = ruined white polo shirts

Not much else.

1 scoop of washing powder. In a whites wash I add some white crystal things. But no fabric conditioner as Ds is allergic to everything.

Just washing liquid. I hate the texture of fabric conditioned clothes. I also have a really sensitive sense of smell and there are very few washing powder smells that I can tolerate. Our regular detergent (Persil Small & Mighty) recently got discontinued and I almost had a meltdown trying to find an alternative that I could bear!

I bulk buy ariel powder, the ‘pro’ stuff that has almost no smell. Lasts almost a year as you need very little.

I have stain remover for when needed, my son has white shirts for school and has a habit of choosing lunch that’s orange.

I’ll sometimes add a splash of fabric softener, but not to every wash. It’s usually just the powder.

Non bio pod, fabric softener, vanish and unstoppables. If I miss one out I really do notice.

Washing powder or liquid.
Nothing else.
If clothes are dirty eg cricket whites I soak over night first.

Ariel and comfort in a normal wash.

Ariel, a scoop of vanish pink powder and comfort in a white wash.

I stick a bit of zoflora in with the PE kits and blazers of they are a bit sweaty smelling.

Powder. Sometimes I add a scoop of oxyclean or soda crystals. That's all.

I use as little detergent as possible, less than recommended because all it does is clog up the washing machine with slime.

If there are stains I treat them first. For certain loads I use a colour catcher, very rarely because for some reason they have added scent and it is disgusting. Sometimes use white vinegar but not often.

No fabric conditioner, look online to see what nasties are in it, no Calgon or similar as it doesn't do anything.

Most of the time it is a minimal amount of unperfumed detergent and nothing else because it is not necessary either to get the clothes clean or for the planet, just think of all the toxins, and the plastic bottles and the reason that phosphates were removed from products. If you are worried that you smell without these things, then something is amiss.

Washing powder and fabric conditioner. Occasionally vanish-type
Rewatch if needed. No more.

Five items!

One Almat liquid capsule. No need for softener in our very soft water area, just chuck it in and go. Less time and fuss spent on laundry the better!

@weegiemum I agree...Maybe it's our water that's so brilliant we don't need all the other shit? (You know me, I've been in your house and have a long neck!)

@llangennith I hope so else that would be a very bubbly wash!

Unstoppables for extra scent
Non bio liquid
Fabric conditioner

Just washing powder.

What’s the Zoflora for in your washing machine? Does it not ruin your clothes/machine?

"because all it does is clog up the washing machine with slime."

Are you using laundry liquid or washing powder ToadOfSadness?

I think this thread has been a real eye opener. I hope those who use a myriad of products will reconsider whether they actually need them.

Just washing powder / capsule depending on what was on offer when it was purchased and a cap full of zoflora

The zoflora is necessary - both me and my partner have very physical outside jobs and work gear smells after the day is done, plus we get spattered with all sorts of crap

For the person asking why zoflora? It’s a concentrated disinfectant, so when added to a wash it kills the bacteria that causes bad smells (or that end up on the clothes through mud and animal mess). It doesn’t damage any clothing from what I have seen and as we tend to wash on 40 degrees max it is a bit of help on very soiled laundry, without doubling the dose of powder and ending up with sudsy clothes

Falls into an even deeper depression about the state of the oceans.

Does the Zoflora help with the smell you sometimes get in washing machines, I imagine from the accumulated slimy water not quite discharged at the end of a wash? My dh keeps pouring bleach down the outflow pipe from machine in the (mistaken) belief it will solve the problem.

Just washing powder out of a large cardboard box, and, with whites, often add basic soda crystals. Whilst washing at low temps is good for the environment it does not always get things clean. I still wash bedding/towels etc at 60 or even 90. I am cleaning not giving the bloody things a warm bath.