Help No Washing powder left-No Money

zenobia

Woops Sorry Margaret54 just realised you already mentioned it.

jembie

I've used allsorts for washing clothes when I run out of washing powder. Shampoo, Washing up liquid and soap. I like shampoo best beause it always smells nice. I use it as a stand in wahing up liquid too.

I can't seem to get Stardrops anywhere near me these days though.
Have all you other MSEers been buying it all up? lol

parsonswife8

jembie wrote: »

I've used allsorts for washing clothes when I run out of washing powder. Shampoo, Washing up liquid and soap. I like shampoo best beause it always smells nice. I use it as a stand in wahing up liquid too.

I can't seem to get Stardrops anywhere near me these days though.
Have all you other MSEers been buying it all up? lol

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I got mine at the 3rd Sainsburys that I tried.

There was none at the first 2 and none at Tesco.

suzybloo

Many thanks for this link - never heard of them before but just ordered some ajax, household soap, dolly pegs and borax, along with ponds cream!:j

BrandNewDay

princesstippytoes wrote: »

When I ran out of washing tablets I put a wash in the machine without them and it came out as clean as if I'd used the tablets. It might have been excess residue in the machine or perhaps the detergent manufacturers are conning us all.

PTT

Washing in plain water is surprisingly effective. There were these products being touted a few years ago - some sort of ionizing balls you could put in your wash that would supposedly work as well as detergent. Someone (Snopes?) did a test of them and discovered that they worked exactly as well as plain water without detergent and remarked that most people who thought the laundry balls worked simply didn't realize that water alone does such a good job.

I only use half the detergent recommended since I read that. And, if I'm washing something like bed sheets, I just wash in very hot water to kill mites and germs, but sometimes no detergent at all. (I think to wash without detergent every time would eventually lead to dingy sheets.)

Mollymop5

Afternoon everyone.I'm just back from holiday and have loads of washing and no soap powder.It's lashing down outside, shops are a long walk and I don't drive.

Any suggestions on what I can use? I have stardrops which says it can be used on hand laundry, can it be put in my machine?

Pink.

Hi MollyMop,

There was a very recent thread on this that should help so I'll have a look for it and add your post to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

AudreyHepburn_2

Hello Mollymop

I would not risk it. Washing machine detergents are all "low foam". A handwash liquid will create too much foam which may pop the door seal on the machine :-(

Mollymop5

thanks for linking my post.I'm going to try a teaspoon of stardrops and tit from there.:)

tomterm8

I worked at a laundrette once upon a time, and the owner was adamant that you should use no more than half of the amount of washing powder recommended on the packet. I did experiments, and found that for most of my washing needs (i.e. I work in an office, my clothes are never really that dirty) water without any powder was perfectly ok.