oxy’balls

[kwatt]

Huh? :con:

K.

[trotter]

kwatt wrote:Huh? :con:

K.

😆
hehehehe……just thought I would cool the discussion down a bit K …….though I was hoping for a more 👿 response

[Martin]

trotter wrote:hehehehe……just thought I would cool the discussion down a bit K …….though I was hoping for a more 👿 response

You haven’t been sniffing Oxy Balls have you Trotter? 😆

I wonder if the lab boys have tested the product to prove one way or the other if they work? From the outset it appears to be nothing more than a marketing scam. When launched years ago in the USA, the advert was more irritating than Barry Scott and his Cillit Bang and the TV networks over there were inundated with complaints about it’s incessant drival day in day out.

Looking at the speil on the packaging it says:-

How it works; Washer balls use time released oxygen powered detergent pellets to clean, soften & soften fabric without the need fo harsh chemicals, fabric softeners or fragrances, what’s best, washer balls leave no soapy residue so you can skip the rinse cycle, saving you time and money on water & energy cost”

It’s a washing miracle and no mistake!!! They say the balls are gentle on the clothes as they claim to “soften & soften fabric” so no chance of damaging your clothes then? And I really like the idea of “skipping the rinse cycle” as, come on now guys , that’s got to be a winner with the tree huggers surely?

Looking logically for a moment, we all must appreciate that surfactants are the essential ingredient toward cleaning dirt from anything. And the subject of damaging clothing has been mentioned more than once in this thread alone. Now here in the western world we have long since moved on from taking our clothes to the river bank and bashing them on a rock to get them clean. These days even by the river Gangies in India they use a bar of soap or some soap nuts to limit the damage bashing on a hard surface creates as they too have…moved on!

You can clean the dirt from your fingers by rubbing them on a stone or you can use soap (a surfactant). The former is harmful and damaging but ultimately cost free and environmentally friendly, the latter pain free but has involved some poor whale in the Atlantic being slaughtered or more likely some heinous chemical processing to make that bar of soap.

Oxy Balls are the latest miracle and if they do what is says on the packaging then there’s no need for laboratory testing by men in white coats….Oh no! Instead fill your washing-up bowl half full with hand hot water, place a soiled pair of underpants into the water whilst at the same time dropping in an Oxy Ball in. Then vigarously swoosh the underpants and Oxy Ball around the bowl of water until the skid marks are all gone. Remember, there’s no need to rinse once the stains have gone. Simply squeeze off the excess water and hang on the line to dry!

Simple!

[LJDomestics]

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😆 :rotl:

[trotter]

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Could we perhaps see national advertising along the lines of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E

:popcorn:

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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kwatt wrote:

Did I miss something or not answer any of this?

K.
No, you answered everything.
I just didn’t want anyone going away under the misapprehension that I was a believer in miracles.
Mike.

[kwatt]

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I wasn’t getting at that at all Mike.

I know you can be pretty passionate on the environmental front and I thought that you were trying to support these things as they are tempting from that angle. They would be, very… if they even remotely worked.

From what you’d said, that’s how it looked to me.

I apologise if I went at it a bit hard but these stupid things really wind me up and, people that fall for them wind me up for being so damned stupid as to fall for it. Much more so the ones that try to justify them in the face of slews of evidence that say they don’t work and yet, they still say that they “work for them”.

And, yes, I’ve had the debate over these and soapnuts elsewhere more than a few times. TBH, I’m sick of it in large part. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that some people are so stupid that they are beyond all hope and will believe anything so long as it comes with an eco-friendly label, they don’t bother to look beyond the facade or at the validity of the clams being made.

But, the last thing I would want to see and, the most important, is engineers who are generally regarded as experts in their field, recommending a product that simply does not work as, if exposed, they’d look like a bunch of total muppets.

That is where I think that a bit of knowledge about these sorts of things is absolutely invaluable to you guys as I’m quite sure none of you want to look like idiots that don’t know what you’re talking about.

However I do understand that you can’t tell a customer that they’re an idiot. Well, not directly anyways. So I’ll tell you how I get around it when these things come up in conversation…

I will explain that although these things may well appear to clean the clothing that, on test, we’ve found that they do not do as good a job as conventional detergents. Explain that they tend to leave skin grease and some other dirt that is hard, if not impossible to see with the naked eye. If you payed attention on the detergent courses this should not be even slightly difficult.

Be careful not to say that they don’t clean, gets people’s hackles up even if it is true.

Then I’ll explain that they can lead to premature limescaling as well as a build up of bacteria in the tank, especially in polypropylene tubs, as they don’t have any bleaching agents.

This obviously isn’t good for the machine and, if the customer wants to continue to use them without causing damage to the appliance that they will have to stick with a tough regime of cleaning using maintenance washes or a product like Affresh to compensate. And that, should they not do so, any service visits caused by this for smells or limescale problems will be chargeable as none of the manufacturers or insurers will cover that as a failure of the machine, it’s a failure to use the machine as directed.

The message usually gets through, without out-and-out calling the customer a muppet. You can call them what you like once you escape their evil clutches. 😉

HTH

K.

[gandh1]

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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:

Penguin45 wrote:
you don’t hang your clothes on the washing line and throw stones at them, do you?

Chris.
Could be worth a try. Keep the kids away from worse mischief at half term. 😆
Mike.

just throw the stones at the children.

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