Okay, here tis, and to save some of my more casual readers (the one’s looking for Emma Watson’s phone number, among other things) I’ve put lots of notes with the Flickr pictures.
Here’s the deal: I was put in touch with the good folks at Charlie’s Soap. They offered to send me a sample if I would give them some feedback (they didn’t know I was going to write a blog post or whateva). So I guess this is my disclaimer: I didn’t actually pay for the laundry soap I used.
But I will be super clear: I’m ordering more of this stuff. I love it.
You can read at their web site about all the great properties of their soap (they drew me in with the news that it cleans poop. This is always an issue at our place). I’ll just tell you what I think.
Laundry soap is awesome. 1st, you don’t use much (you aren’t just washing a ton down the drain). Second, the clothes really do get cleaner than they get with Tide (I haven’t used anything but Tide in nearly 20 years so I can’t compare to other soaps, sorry). Cost is actually a little less; the big jug of Tide is $17.00 here locally and does nearly 100 loads; the little bag of Charlie’s Soap is $12.00 and does 80 loads. That’s right, you don’t need much of this stuff.
(I’m thinking about when we go on vacation, with three kids under eight there is always laundry to do, even on a short trip, it’s easier to pack a few teaspoons of powder than take a bottle of liquid, for me at least)
Charlie makes a liquid version, too, but I haven’t tried that. But the powder dissolves completely, I haven’t found any on our clothes, after nearly 30 loads of all types of laundry - bedding, clothes, underwear, towels, stuffed animals.
The first load or two, the towels seems a touch ’scratchy.’ Still very usable, but it wasn’t a good sign. I added a rinse cycle (our washer has a cycle to help with fabric softener, I guess) and everything was great. Towels, shirts, and underwear, especially, are cleaner and softer then they have been before. My work pants (think dockers, but cheaper) are super soft. Grass stains, spagettio’s, milk - it all comes out.
Short version - I like the stuff, and I’ll be buying more. In another entry I’ll talk about the liquid soap they also sent me (you can see it in one of the pictures) but I have to get off the computer for now, so it’ll have to wait.
If you’ve tried this soap and like it or not, lemme know. If you have any questions, well, that’s why I’m here.
This ends today’s laundroblogging.
