Branded products......arghhhhhh!

cristin

I have just been reading the towels/fabric conditioner thread. I really didn't have any idea that you shouldn't use it on towels as it stops them absorbing water! As someone on the towels thread said, the adverts have obviously been telling us a few lies about this. Is anybody else as sick of branded products as I am? (I don't want to mention any particular name) - you know the ones I mean, the washing powders that now wash so much whiter than before, the cleaners that clean so much more now!. How white can white be, how clean can clean get, how stupid do they think we are :mad: ? It makes me really mad. Whenever I see these products being advertised now, I am more deteremined than ever to become Old style and not use them. Does anybody else agree?

Loadsabob

Absolutely! For washing I use Ecover, and their fabric softener (though not for towels! ) and they don't advertise. No big claims, just get your clothes clean and don't destroy the waterways and wildlife...that's enough for me!! If I want my whites any whiter, I'll spray them with lemon juice and hang them in the sun!

I just get so sick of adverts anyway, the ones that annoy me make me determined NOT to buy the products...we can't be the only ones!

Debt_Free_Chick

cristin wrote:

I have just been reading the towels/fabric conditioner thread. I really didn't have any idea that you shouldn't use it on towels as it stops them absorbing water! As someone on the towels thread said, the adverts have obviously been telling us a few lies about this.

Some suggest you don't use it at all. In particular, it rots certain clothes. I'm convinced FC was responsible for a cotton shirt that literally fell apart in front of my eyes as I ironed it. Don't use the stuff anymore, haven't done so for more than five years and can't say I miss it at all.

Is anybody else as sick of branded products as I am? (I don't want to mention any particular name) - you know the ones I mean, the washing powders that now wash so much whiter than before, the cleaners that clean so much more now!. How white can white be, how clean can clean get, how stupid do they think we are :mad: ? It makes me really mad. Whenever I see these products being advertised now, I am more deteremined than ever to become Old style and not use them. Does anybody else agree?

I feel the same way, for the same reasons, about the supermarkets. I grudgingly go to Lidl every three months but don't buy meat, fish or vegetables there. Get these locally at butcher & farm shop.

I feel well & truly ripped off by the greedy supermarkets :mad:

Lillibet_2

I had to laugh recently when, on looking at a certain very well known brand of baby wipes which were on BOGOF, I noticed that they had the slogan "Cleans as well as cotton wool & water" across the front of the packaging & idiots were snapping them up :rotfl:

Vermilion

Loadsabob wrote:

Absolutely! For washing I use Ecover, and their fabric softener (though not for towels! ) and they don't advertise. No big claims, just get your clothes clean and don't destroy the waterways and wildlife...that's enough for me!! If I want my whites any whiter, I'll spray them with lemon juice and hang them in the sun!

I just get so sick of adverts anyway, the ones that annoy me make me determined NOT to buy the products...we can't be the only ones!

I agree so much with this.

I find that most of the Ecover products are so effective and comfortable to use and am hoping that knowledge gained here will help me in my quest to "green" my home and way of life.

The claims made in adverts and the budgets spent on making them are becoming offensive, it implies that the products advertised are not able to sell on the strength of their effectiveness. Instead of responding to this by investing in improving the product and giving customers what they want, companies try to brainwash us into thinking that a (possibly?) inferior product is exactly what we want via advertising.

Loadsabob

Vermilion wrote:

I agree so much with this.

I find that most of the Ecover products are so effective and comfortable to use and am hoping that knowledge gained here will help me in my quest to "green" my home and way of life.

It's great once you get started, isn't it? I have started using bicarb in my cleaning, and essential oils. I didn't use much in the way of chemical cleaners anyway, and have had Ecover for a long time (like you, I find them really effective) but these days I find it almost impossible to walk down the cleaning aisles in supermarkets. I have to go through them very quickly, or the chemical haze gets in my lungs and makes me cough or sneeze - it really is SO toxic!!

Ticklemouse

The one that used to make me laugh was that loo cleaner that "killed 99% of all known germs, dead" What other way is there to kill them? And it's the 1% I'm worried about

Thus, I clean with vinegar, bicarb, lemons and bleach when I need to although I do have the odd bottle of cream cleanser in my cupboard. Sometimes, it's just what I need and at Netto it's only 29p a bottle, which is way off Cif prices. (Not used it yet, so can't compare) Any cleaners/sprays etc I have got are old ones that I'm slowly using up and not replacing. My friend was waxing lyrical the other day about her £2 bottle of branded kitchen cleaner that she said was brill for getting rid of the grease on her hob etc. She only used 1/2 the bottle !! I did try to tell her vinegar would have worked, at only a few pence, but "softly softly, catchee monkee" and all that.

MATH

Once for an experiment (don't ask me why - must have been aslow day) I ordered my usual shop online and then went back and re-shopped but bought only brand name variaties. That basket was £ 20 more expensive. Needless to say I didn't confirm that order.

I'm such an inverted snob that I don't buy the brand leader even when it is the same price as the store brand

Chipps

A little while ago, Finish was advertising some super duper dishwasher tablets with a little ball in that was supposed to be the be all & end all of dishwasher perfection.
Now they are advertising the even superer duperer dishwasher tablets (also with little ball) that apparently put all other brands in the shade.... including, presumably, the previous version of finish.
So, if their previous claims to perfection are now shown to be totally false, what about their current claims!

ps lidls dishwasher powder does as good a job as the free sample of you-know-what we got with the dishwasher, & I can choose how much I use, too.

elona

I buy anything on offer and cut tablet in half and use white vinegar as a rinse aid - my glassers gleam - even managed to impress my darling daughters - and that is not easy :j

elona

I use anything on offer - then use half the amount or break tablet in half - use white vinegar for rinse aid - my glasses gleam - even impressed darling daughters:j