Wash powder or gel or tablets?

[Dualipa]

Which do you use and which do you think is best?

I've always used powder but the liquid is on offer so wondering if it's worth trying.

Powder with the occasional liquid sportswear wash. Powder keeps the drum cleaner due to the bleaches it contains

Always powder, in tablet form. It's better for the machine and stops it getting gunky.

Powder. I sprinkle it on top of the load. Don't want to clog up the machine...a plumber told me to do this and it seems like good advice so far.

I use liquid and it does the job. I don’t like the gel capsules because I wash clothes on a low heat and the plastic coating doesn’t melt, resulting in a snotty-looking blob sticking to the clothes 🤢

Powder

I find liquids leave the clothes slightly tacky

I use liquid because I buy them in large containers from Costco and also use tablets as well. I don’t like powder.

Powder

I use gel, I find the little pods would leave bits of gunky residue. Does powder clean better? I do find I have to pre treat things quite often.

Powder. You can use as much as is needed (a lot less than you think - I use a vanish scoop for a large load).
A decent size box lasts well.

Powder. After many years I realised that liquid used consistently at low temperatures can cause your clothes to smell.

Smol, love it!

Powder. Massive cardboard box. I used to use tabs but felt horrible about the environmental impact of the plastics, not to mention the bloody tub they come in. And the powder is so much better in terms of how clean the clothes get. They smell and feel much nicer too.

Powder, placed straight into the drum, not in the dispenser drawer.

I use whatever is cheapest. Never noticed too much of a difference.

I've saved a lot by using a box box of powder...lasts ages. I prefer it in the drawer rather than the drum. I found it sometimes left marks on the clothes if I put in in the drum

Powder. I ran out once and had some gel capsules so used those on DH's sweaty t-shirts and they came out still stinking (sorry, TMI). But I do only wash on low temperatures.

Powder seems to clean more thoroughly .

Powder for whites.
Liquid for everything else.

I use liquid pods. Since putting the pod in the drum before the washing I haven't had the snotty stuff left over once, even on a cooler wash.

Powder, mostly, because it doesn’t make the machine gunk up (technical term). But I use colour liquid on DP’s work clothes and anything of mine I care about.

We use Smol gel capsules.

Powder because it shifts sweat stains/smells properly (I have teenagers)

Liquid simply doesn't cut it.

Always powder. Works out much cheaper. And i wash everything on 60 wash. None of this cold water farce.

I prefer the liquid gel but I find I use more than if I just need to pop a pod in the wash. Powder always leaves white residue on dark clothes 😕

Liquid. Or pods if they are on offer.
Don’t go in for cold short washes either.

Powder straight into the drum