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How to Find an Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent
There are several other places you can look for information. Green-cleaner guides offered by the Environmental Working Group: That nonprofit group’s label decoder explains potentially confusing terms like surfactant, enzymes, non-toxic, organic, fragrance, scent, and free/clear. And its Guide to Healthy Cleaning highlights ingredients of concern in detergents and other products and scores them for safety. SmartLabel: Created by the…
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Tide Evo Tile Laundry Detergent Review
In my experience, no laundry detergent brand has hit the sweet spot between efficiency, performance, convenience, and eco-friendliness (most either lack strong ingredients or use harsh chemicals). For example, Earth Breeze eco-friendly laundry detergent sheets came up short on cleaning performance in both our lab tests and a home evaluation. Could Tide Evo do better? CR’s laundry lab currently rates…
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My Favorite Laundry Hacks | Lifehacker
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Sometimes, you come across a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist. Viral videos would have you believe you should mix an abundance of chemicals in your toilet or fill your air fryer with water to clean them. You should do neither of those things, namely because they’re dangerous;…
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Do Laundry Detergent Sheets Work as Well as Liquid?
CR has long tested and rated liquid detergents, pods, and packs. So our test engineers recently put laundry sheets from six brands—Earth Breeze, Ecos, Ecowise, Kind, Sheets Laundry Club, and Tru Earth—to the test. To test detergents, our engineers launder fabric swatches that are saturated with blood, body oil, chocolate, coffee, dirt, grass, and salad dressing. We use stains that…
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