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we recently purchased one of these, they claim 90 washes only cost £2-99
the ball has lots of smaller balls inside which slow release detegent and fabric conditioner it seems to work fine .could this be the end of conventional powders etc ? any one else tried them ?Re: oxy’balls
Me thinks that thay are no good! ❗
if you live in a hard water area then death of machine will be very soon,
CanufixitRe: oxy’balls
I’ve tried to not even look. Honestly, this is the first I’ve looked at this thread and, I did try to resist it. I actually try to avoid these threads a lot as, usually they’re in the public forums and I have to temper my comments.
In the more closed trade forums, I don’t have to temper it, just so much. I just have to avoid trying to swear.
In short, they are one of the biggest loads of crap that has ever been put on the market IMO. Utter and complete b0ll0cks.
They don’t work, period.
By the time you realise that they don’t work, it’s too late, you’ve ruined hundreds of pounds worth of clothing.
Sham, utter, utter, sham.
There is NO scientific evidence to prove these things work, none, nadda, not a single bit of proof. Not the slimmest shred of evidence that they do anything at all well, other than release some bubbles into the water and con people out of money. They release nothing into the wash other than trapped oxygen within the rubbish that’s in them.
It’s akin to someone telling me that I can run my car on fresh air. It isn’t happening, end of story.
Now, before anyone wants to have a contrary opinion, please make sure that you have facts, not hee-bee-gee-bee witch doctor reports or “my mate Bob…” things as, you will find that there is none that bear up to any sort of scrutiny whatsoever. In fact, you can find more that tell you they’re a load of tosh, probably because they are.
Soapnuts are the same.
Other than that, I’m very open minded about all these miracle detergents. And, I did say I’d try not to swear, I didn’t promise that I wouldn’t. 😆
K.
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canufixit wrote:if you live in a hard water area then death of machine will be very soon,
Hard Water?????…Ah but that’s where you then need to dig deep and whip out your MAGNO BALLS:rotl:
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So to sum up then,….. it looks like that thay are all a load of
BALLS…….sh!t 😉
CanufixitRe: oxy’balls
How do they ruin clothing, Ken?
Seems to me they “work” for some people who try them simply because they’re people who very seldom actually get their clothes dirty.
In saving such people money on detergent, and the NHS money due to savings in prescriptions for skin damage due to detergent overdosing/insufficient rinsing due to lack of filter cleaning, I’d say on the whole they’re a good thing.But if you can provide some real evidence for your claim of clothes damage then I’d be prepared to revise my opinion.
(This forum isn’t sponsored by a detergent manufacturer, is it, so I think I can speak freely.)
Mike.Re: oxy’balls
There is no evidence to support these things do anything, at all.
But you obviously don’t understand the definition of “dirty”.
When you wear clothing it gets a mixture of food, skin flakes, dust, general dirt, urine, faeces, skin grease and a host of other things on it. The simple fact is that you can’t see well in excess of 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the dirt but it is there. To get that off and to save it building up, creating smells and making the garments going grubby, they must be washed properly.
By properly I mean a proper wash cycle, not a Mickey Mouse quick cycle or one with reduced or no detergent in it. Fail to do that and your clothing will go grey and look “done” well before its time, you’ll assume it’s just worn out and toss it. The truth is that it’s just because it wasn’t washed properly and you’ve been walking around carrying about a load of old dirt with you.
So, after a number of cycles that aren’t right, the clothing is ruined.
Skin irritation is not caused by detergents. End of story.
Skin irritation is caused by allergies, which should be properly tested by your GP but, since it costs them to do that, they’ll suggest many other things before they will do a pukka skin test. It can be down to diet, stress, illness and a myriad of other things but, as yet, I’ve still to see one single report that links any skin condition to detergents.
In other words, it’s an urban myth. And, one perpetuated by some people in the medical profession that are too damn lazy to do their job properly.
If you go on looking at the major medical websites regarding sing conditions you will find no mention, or very little, of detergents.
The cure is, do the washing properly and you won’t have a problem.
Don’t do it correctly and, you may well have a problem.
K.
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kwatt wrote:
When you wear clothing it gets a mixture of food, skin flakes, dust, general dirt, urine, faeces, skin grease and a host of other things on it.
K.Gotta feel sorry for Mrs K 😯
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I just research stuff if I have a call to do so. When I started looking into this area many years ago I wanted to understand the wash process, why it worked, how it worked and how as well as why, a washing machine played its part in it all.
A lot of the work I did on this was done many years ago and then re-enforced by days spent in a lab looking at it with some boffins that were way smarter on this subject than I’ll ever be.
There is good reason for the almost two hundred ingredients in a modern detergent, they don’t put them in there just for the fun of it. And, trust me, they are all tested to death before they see any sort of public airing by any of the major players.
You’ve got more chance of winning the lottery two weeks on the trot than getting a skin condition from a detergent produced by any of the major labels. That’s not too far off the actual odds.
K.
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ive never once claimed ive had a skin allergy to soap powder, but if any gets on my hands, and after rinsing/drying fairly thoroughly ive missed a bit, why do they locally itch 10-15 mins later ?
as a self test ive deliberately not rinsed my hands afterwards and they feel just as bad, i would say worse, but i imagine the increase of contact makes it seem that way.
it cant surely be psychosomatic can it?
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I’m not sure what you mean gand but I think I know what you’re getting at.
Washing machine or dishwasher detergent is not designed to be applied directly to skin and, I would suppose, that if it were and, you did have sensitive skin that it possibly could cause a reaction. I’ve never heard of it though.
Anything in the detergent should only release when water hits it though. Obviously liquid detergent is slightly different.
As to whether its psychological or not, no idea, not an area I can answer on. All I can do is tell you about the detergents.
I know more than a few people with eczema, a couple of them pretty severe and, used correctly most detergents are absolutely fine but the cheaper ones do seem to cause more of an issue and, poor rinsing is the No1 by far and away cause of any issue with laundry.
No2 is additives, such as softeners etc. especially the strongly perfumed ones.
That said, there’s usually another reason for any outbreak. It’s just dead easy for people to blame the big bad detergent companies.
HTH
K.
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