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Least irritant washing powder/liquid

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  • Hi @coffeehound

    Do you use scented detergent?
    Those perfumes most likely irritates your skin.
    Extra rinsing does help but better to use perfume free detergent?

    I also try to evaluate how dirty the textiles are so that I could use as little as possible.
    This way there will be fewer residues even before those extra rinses.

    For soaps, olive oil soap that is un-scented is quite good
  • For ages I have used the M&S non-bio, sensitive washing liquid that came in a blue top bottle. Then for over a month I could not find it anywhere. So I bought some Surcare as this does not have a perfume and most of the other non-bio that I found had perfume added. Today M&S had the non-sensitive back in a new tall, bottle.So I bought it, as soon as I took the top off to do a wash, I could smell the difference and for some reason they have now added a perfume, why????
    Paddle No 21 :wave:
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