RE: salt & vinegar (was dryer sheets) Recap & WRINKLING?

[Guest guest]

I'm glad to read that quite a few of us use Seventh Generation products. I use

every product of theirs that I have a use for.

Last year I came across a discount display at Albertson's grocery store with

Seventh Generation's powdered laundry detergent being sold for $1.99 each! I

couldn't believe the ignorance in pricing such a product so low to discontinue

the selling of, so I bought out every remaining box - I think there were 14

left. So for $27.00 including tax I got a whole year's worth of non-toxic

laundry detergent!

Ironically, I'm now running out on my last box, so the timing of this post is

perfect! The ingredients consist of basically salt and enzymes. But I don't

imagine I could come across another sale like last year's...so taking advice

from my fellow members in this group, it seems beneficial all-around to combine

the enzyme tabs and salt. So here are my questions that we haven't considered

answering in this thread yet...

1. How does salt prevent fading?

2. Would salt kill all the germs and bacteria (even fecal matter) in laundry?

3. Can I use too much salt?

4. Doesn't vinegar leave your clothes smelling nasty?

5. Would vinegar deter wrinkling?

I use 4 times the recommended amount of Seventh Generation soy-based liquid

fabric softener in an attempt to prevent wrinkling, as I hang-dry most of my

clothes. It doesn't work that well to prevent wrinkling, but my dry-clean-only

clothes are kept looking like new, feel comfortable and retain a nice lavendar

fragrance.

I would like to know a better, lower-cost way to reduce wrinkling please?!

Thanks so much,

Tiffany Lohr

 

Kathleen Scheps <k.scheps wrote:

Hi,

I currently use 7th Generation also. I just learned about a new option though.

EcoQuest has a new product out called Laundry Pure. It uses ozone, a high

intensity UV attachment that is added inside the clothes washer and works best

with cold water. I think it’s about $700.

For heavy stains, they use enzyme tablets. Here’s an excerpt from the PDF...

....Generally the enzyme categories best suited for laundry use are called

protesase (these go after protein based soils), lipase (these go after fat or

lipid based soils), and amylase (these are effective on carbohydrate based

soils).

Kathleen Scheps

 

rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Leah Morrison

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:08 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] salt and vinegar for washing (was dryer sheets)

Mike,

....My alternative would be to do exactly what you are doing, and that is to use

7th generation's products.

 

Mike Elliot wrote:

I'll have to give it a try. I had switched off the more toxic detergents and

dryer sheets to the Seventh Generation products, but had never heards their was

yet another option...

-Mike