Bet you didn't know you needed this, Lysol Laundry Sanitizer

[Rule3]

Marketing 101.
Create a need for a product that no one needs, advertise it and sell it for a price they can not afford.


Seems like for last 50 years or more we have been doing it wrong.
We need to "Kill 99.9% of bacteria detergents leave behind"
So washing our clothes is not enough!add this

They (Govt) took most anti bacterial out of soaps now they want you to add it back in??

https://www.lysol.com/products/laundry/lysol-laundry-sanitizer/

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[delcrossv]

Umm. Chlorine bleach not good enough?

 

[Snapping Twig]

"Kill 99.9% of bacteria detergents leave behind"

Qualifier statement.

Just how much is left behind? New HE enzyme "soap" kills an awful lot.

Plain old soap does a good job too.

Create in the mind a problem that only they can solve.

Marketing 101.

 

[DeathGrip]

Arm & Hammer has been selling it's laundry booster since the days of hand cranks. All it is, Sodium Carbonate. I guess it changes the PH level to make the detergent lather.

I don't say nothing about germs. That's what hot water is for. I use it to clean cast iron along with a battery charger.

 

[vytoland]

advertising = a tool to separate the gullible from their $$$.....

 

[BigBoy99]

I bet you never realized just how dirty you were when you were a kid! The "new" soaps make everything so much cleaner. We must have been wading hip deep in all of the germs which were around and not killed by the "new and improved" products available today.

 

[Rustyt1953]

When we lived in Florida, mom said God put red clay there to test her laundry skills.

 

[glenwolde]

Don't need it. We have steam in both the washer and the dryer.

But I wouldn't poo-poo this. Talk to a mom that washes a lot of cloth diapers ... but they tend to get the steam option on their machines. Nothing gets past steam in the washer and the dryer.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

But I wouldn't poo-poo this. Talk to a mom that washes a lot of cloth diapers ... but they tend to get the steam option on their machines. Nothing gets past steam in the washer and the dryer.

We had 4 kids raised on cloth diapers and 4 of 7 grandkids (our daughter didn't have the time or breath to wash cloth diapers for triplets!) Our farm house had a shallow well and a lot of minerals. Over time the diapers lost that bright white color, but "on sale detergent" and brand name Clorox kept the kids clean and free from rashes and infections! Every week, just after the laundry was done we added 1 cup of Clorox to the well, That kept the rest of us as healthy as the babies!

Never had steam in the washer back then, we have it now and never used it! More marketing hype!!!

Ivan

 

[soFlaNative]

Probably their repackaged toilet bowl cleaner.

 

[Watchdog]

But I wouldn't poo-poo this. Talk to a mom that washes a lot of cloth diapers...

I see what you did there.

 

[carpriver]

So what is the peroxide for in the detergent? I grew up with my mom shaving slivers off a bar of Fels Napa soap. She would add it to a bucket of hot water to desolve it then pour it the out winger washer. Whites got the bleach. the rest got soap and hot water. then dried in the sun.

 

[OLDSTER]

That's one of an ever growing number of products that fit the "unnecessary solution to a non-existent problem" category. Unfortunately there is a growing inventory of items in our favorite industry that also belong in that category.

 

[s&wchad]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. If you keep the environment too clean and sterile, your immune system doesn’t develop properly. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

Bleach works great, but it can ruin colored fabrics. I suppose there are instances when this sanitizer is warranted. Fortunately, I don’t have to worry about it. Mrs. Chad is very particular and insists on doing all the laundry herself. I’m smart enough to let her use any products she wants, without comment. The last thing I want to do is ruin a good thing!

 

[Ziggy2525]

It’s a real issue with synthetic clothes. Two things have changed since the “good old days.” High Efficiency washers and newer materials for synthetic blend clothing.

Not sure why, but it’s harder to get rid of the bacteria that cause odors from newer synthetic clothes AND HE washers make the problem worse because so little water to rinse with. It’s called HE washer funk. So says the Clothes Washer in Chief at my place anyway.

First world problem.

 

[Snapping Twig]

It’s a real issue with synthetic clothes. Two things have changed since the “good old days.” High Efficiency washers and newer materials for synthetic blend clothing.

Not sure why, but it’s harder to get rid of the bacteria that cause odors from newer synthetic clothes AND HE washers make the problem worse because so little water to rinse with. It’s called HE washer funk. So says the Clothes Washer in Chief at my place anyway.

First world problem.

The "funk" comes from...

1.) Leaving the door closed

2.) Too much HE soap. Use ONLY 2 ~ 4 tablespoons of HE.

Use Affresh to clean the washer and then leave the door open when not in use and only use 2 ~ 4 tablespoons of soap.

Problem should go away shortly.

I fix these things for a living.

 

[woodsltc]

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. If you keep the environment too clean and sterile, your immune system doesn’t develop properly. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

I think there is something to what you say. Seems there are several studies that indicate the same thing .

This is just one: BBC - Future - Can you be too clean?

Don

 

[Doug M.]

While there is a lot of strength to the arguments about the over-cleanliness fetish is a problem, there is also a problem with some of the changes in the way we do laundry. The idiot at the hospital described in the article below who is responsible for the purchase should be fired.

Bacteria likely hiding in your household washing machine - KXLY