Wash balls - Laundry balls - Eco balls (merged)

Miss_Behaving

A while ago I purchased "Eco balls" and have to say that they were an absolute waste of money! I have two children and work in a children's nursery so I have all sorts of dodgy stains to remove! I found that I was having to rewash most of the items so it was definitely not cost effective. I have now reverted back to good old Persil.

ET03

these wash balls are rubbish
better off using a good quality powder but only 1/4 of the rec amount

Badgergal

Well, seeing as I have mine now I will be keeping it, and perhaps cos I don't have young kids or play sports etc my clothes do come clean and smells like sweat etc are removed.

It is different to the ecoballs though, it is a different make and looks different...

Thanks to all who replied!

eyeopener

Miss_Behaving wrote:

A while ago I purchased "Eco balls" and have to say that they were an absolute waste of money! I have two children and work in a children's nursery so I have all sorts of dodgy stains to remove! I found that I was having to rewash most of the items so it was definitely not cost effective. I have now reverted back to good old Persil.

I've found they work well on colours but not so well on whites. All we did was add a little Ecover liquid to the wash and everything was fine.

I'm willing to trade of Persils advertising mantra of White than White (whatever that is) to have my child know that I am not pollutong the worlds watercourses with Unilevers products.
Not only are these chemicals harmful to our children and ourselves but the effect is taking its toll on the environment.

"For example, Phosphates, a common ingredient used in laundry and dishwasher detergents are being flushed away into our waterways at a conservatively estimated rate of 600 thousand tonnes per year, causing rapid algae growth and contaminating our fish."


Depends where your priorities lie I suppose.

meadowcat

Don't know if thisis the right place to post this. I just wondered if anyone has any experience of using Eco balls for laundry. I have read lots of reviews that rave about them, but have also read a rather technical one that basically said they were not much better than using water alone.

They cost about £35 and claim to last for 1000 washes. Great if they really work, but a lot of money if they are just a load of eco balls. (sorry - couldn't resist that)

scuzz

My friends use these and as far as I know haven't had any problems with them

Tightwadways

We've just been given a pack of these from a freecycler, which saved us the outlay. We'd been recommended them by a friend who uses them and swears by them. She only uses detergent about once every other month, and her other half does a lot of oily work with cars and she says it gets that out. We've been using them for just under a week and they seem really good, the only thing i miss is a smell in the laundry when I put it on the line, it seems to get the clothes clean - and I know they would have been around £25 at our local food wholeseller in the city, so if you are getting them, try your local one, it may be cheaper.

squeaky

We have an older thread on these; to see it Click Here

Caterina

Lakeland does them too and they cost a lot less - I think about £8

here's the link (won't someone please refresh me on the tags used to make a link without having to enter the whole caboodle!)

Click here

I haven't tried them but I recall there had been some discussion about them before on this forum - does anyone know where?

Caterina

Caterina

Great minds think alike, Squeaky - well done for finding the link!

Caterina