How did I not know this stuff?

[PestoHoliday]

Washing powder/liquid - if the label is green it's bio, if it's blue it's non-bio. This is true across every brand I've found.

When cooking with chilli peppers - 'wash' your hands with a bit of oil afterwards to remove all the burning chilli chemicals. Then wash with soap.
The number of times I've rubbed my eyes after handling chillies is ridiculous, I could have saved myself so much discomfort!

I don't even know what bio or non bio means, I just buy whatever's cheapest.

The oil tip is really useful. I wear contact lenses and taking them out after handling chillies, even after many hand washes, is painful,

Storing your chillies in the frezze and chopping them up while still frozen helps reduce the juice spreading onto your fingers .

Babies or people with sensitive skin tend to need non-bio, people with enormous great smelly exercising young adults can need bio washing powder - the enzymes are great at dealing with stinking sports kit.

I have been standing in the supermarket aisle peering at the small type on the back of the packet trying to see if it was bio or not. Now I just look for green labels.

Having accidentally got a dried chilli flakes on my actual eyeball, I was VERY pleased to learn the oil trick. Gets rid of it completely.

Well I accidentally brought bio in Lidl because it was blue! I totally didn't see the difference on the labels. Anyway, I now use bio for a few bits as previously I would have exclusively only used non-bio.

Watch they don't change it.

I'm sure that salt and vinegar crisps used to come in a blue packet and cheese and onion in green. To me it makes sense - the 'sea' one (salt) was blue and the veggie (onion) one green. Even though it changed long ago I still get caught out sometimes by grabbing the wrong colour packet.

My Ecover non bio sensitive liquid has blue and green on the label,

Walker's have always done the reverse!

Although non bio washing detergent doesn't contain enzymes, it's actually more likely that someone would have a reaction to the perfume in washing detergents than the enzymes. Non bio tends to have less perfume in order the boost the perception they are purer.

I'm lost, sorry: you mean "bio" as in "biological/organic"? If so, wouldn't it make more sense if babies and people with allergies used the bio ones? I'm sure I'm missing something 🙏😅

Bio/Biological = with added enzymes to help digest stains, especially oil or sweat.

Bio means organic in France but not in the UK

Bio washing powder has enzymes that digest stains, non-bio is gentler.

@amicisimma - it was KP Crisps that were the most popular until Walkers overtook them. KP and Walkers had opposite packaging, which is why people remember them as swapping

Thank you, that explains it!