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Not to care that my fabrics have bacteria in them?

93 replies

perplexedpirate · 07/12/2011 10:31

Washing powder that disinfects everything seems to be the latest development in hygiene products. Can't see the point.
Are we expecting smallpox blankets from the pilgrims?
Or am I just a dirty mare?

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DeckTheHugeWithBoughsOfManatee · 07/12/2011 10:33

Really, it's a miracle that the human race has managed to stay alive for all these millennia without the marvellous essential of disinfectant washing powder Xmas Hmm

Seriously, it's just a way of flogging a more expensive detergent to PFB germ-neurotics.

Zippylovesgeorge · 07/12/2011 10:33

Just the latest 'DailyWail' type product to scare all - like my Mother. I won't be being suckered into that one.

WorraLiberty · 07/12/2011 10:33

YANBU

Just more shit for people to buy and panic about

God forbid anyone should be exposed to a germ

WorraLiberty · 07/12/2011 10:34

Zippy your mother was a Daily Wail type product? Shock Grin

cantspel · 07/12/2011 10:36

It will appeal to the daily towel washers who will now have something new to obsess about.

ViviPrudolf · 07/12/2011 10:37

I felt a frission of germy excitement when I plonked my baked spud on a new plate without washing it first yesterday. 12 hours on and I've not dropped dead from some Swedish bacterial infection. My sister would have an eppy if she knew.

Sod disinfectant washing powder. Never going to happen chez 'Pru.

spiderpig8 · 07/12/2011 10:37

would bacteria survive on something that's been washed in regular detergent, dried and ironed anyway?

zimm · 07/12/2011 10:38

Oh god...really?? This exists? Still if it will stop the "fresh towel everyday that has been washed at 90 degrees before it touches my pristine bottom' brigade from using quite so much fossil fuel it might just have a use.

zimm · 07/12/2011 10:38

cantspel cross posted and beat me to it! NOOOOOOOO!

Icelollycraving · 07/12/2011 10:39

Yabu. I will buy it. I am in fact Monica from friends in Carby Claire's body.

cantspel · 07/12/2011 10:43

I buy whatever washing liquid that is on offer. I cant understand people who always buy the same brand as it is the "best".

It is just washing liquid not a cure for cancer

WorraLiberty · 07/12/2011 10:45

It is just washing liquid not a cure for cancer

That has to be post of the week for me! Xmas Grin

MudAndGlitter · 07/12/2011 10:47

Meh, I dont even wash fruit half the time unless someone's looking no one has got ill here.
I'll stick with whatever's on offer

DeckTheHugeWithBoughsOfManatee · 07/12/2011 10:50

Slightly off-topic, but I was Shock when I learned as an adult that you're not supposed to reheat rice after a certain time as apparently it can be full of some toxic somethingorother. My mother regularly used to cook 18 tons of rice at a time and then dish it up at several meals in succession over several days. None of us ever got food poisoning from it, or from eating things that someone had just cut the mould off.

It may be no coincidence that nowadays I have an iron stomach Grin

MrsSleepy · 07/12/2011 10:52

What is the time frame on reheating rice??

ViviPrudolf · 07/12/2011 10:53

I buy the nicest smelling one. I don't really care about its cleansing properties, lavender and camomile Bold smells heavenly.

As my mum says, I'm all out there hooey hooey, underneath, fooey fooey. I think that means I'm all for show. Arf @ Mummy 'Pru.

Icelollycraving · 07/12/2011 10:53

Never reheat rice.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 07/12/2011 10:53

Actually, if there's an outbreak of noro in your house you become totally obsessed with eradicating all germs from your house.

..and if you're washing your clothes properly there won't be bacteria on them anyway.

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perplexedpirate · 07/12/2011 10:53

Good, I'm not alone in bacteria ridden hell. I have done the new-cup-before-washing thing too, and just for second thought "but someone might have touched it!" before getting a grip of myself.

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SquishyCinnamonSwirls · 07/12/2011 10:55

Rice - it depends how quickly it was cooled, how it's been stored and how well you reheat it.

As for the washing powder, really? It's like one of those useless automatic soap dispensers "so you don't get germs on your hands", when you're just about to wash them anyway! Build your immune systems up a bit.

MrsSleepy · 07/12/2011 10:58

Never knew that about rice. Whoops

OldGreyWassailTest · 07/12/2011 10:59

This would suit someone I know. They spent 15 mins steralising all worksurfaces before scrubbing bottles for 45 mins before putting in the steraliser. No food was to be touched from anyone's else's kitchen, and all food was sent to MIL in sterilised containers. The child was never put on the floor, and it's hands were never allowed in it's mouth (consequently was way behind crawling/walking and feeding itself). Now 4, the child gets every bug going and is always ill.

This washing powder would be a boon to her so no towel with germs would touch her child's bum!

FoofFighters · 07/12/2011 11:01

surely washing at 40 with detergent already kills everything off? And should I be washing my towels every day? Xmas Shock

piprobincomesbobbobbobbinalong · 07/12/2011 11:03

I agree with zimm - if it encourages people to wash their clothes at 30 instead of 60, then it might be useful. However I suspect that the sort of people who worry about this stuff will wash at 60 and use disinfectant powder just in case.

DeckTheHugeWithBoughsOfManatee · 07/12/2011 11:03

In my house, it wasn't unusual for the rice to be left on the sideboard and then reheated 2 days later.

I had no idea until I was an adult that anyone might think this was bad, and don't recall anyone ever being struck down by food poisoning.