I've been a Tide user all my life until I switched to an all natural detergent last year. I started using Charlie's Soap a year ago and I loved it. Then two months ago, just as I ran out of my last bag of Charlie's Soap, Amazon didn't have it available. So I decided to try Nellie's. This review is basically a comparison between Charlie's Soap and Nellie's.
Blood Stains: My son has a lot of nose bleeds, especially at night and gets blood all over his sheets.
Charlie's Soap: Blood is gone or at least very faded on his white sheets after one wash.
Nellie's Soap: Used this in conjunction with Nellie's oxygen booster. Blood stains maybe faded slightly but still dark. It did very little to remove the blood stains.
Laundry Machine: When I used Tide, my front loading washing machine started smelling, even though I would leave the door open between loads to let the machine dry properly and try avoid that mildew smell. There was a white layer around the window part of the washing machine door from all the detergent build up.
Charlie's Soap: After a few washes, that mildew smell went away. Also, that white layer of detergent build up from all the Tide went away. In addition to cleaning my clothes, it cleaned my washing machine too! After using Charlie's Soap for a year, there was no smell in my washing machine and no detergent built up on my window.
Nellie's Soap: After using Nellie's soap for almost two months, the window on my washing machine door is starting to develop a white film over it again. There is a smell starting to develop inside the drum of my machine.
Smell of laundry: I am sensitive to heavy perfume smells and am ok with my laundry devoid of any scents using natural cleaners. My cleaning lady uses about 50 cotton rag/towels to clean my house every time she comes. So these rags are soaked with cleaning solutions she uses to clean and mop the house, like pledge, Mr. Clean, scrubbing bubbles, etc.
Charlie's Soap: After washing the rags with Charlie's Soap, these cleaning towels come out clean and has no scent left over from any of the cleaners whatsoever.
Nellie's Soap: After washing the rags with Nellie's soap in conjunction with Nellie's oxygen cleaner, the rags still have cleaning solution smell of Pledge and Scrubbing Bubbles left on them. It obviously isn't a doing a good job of cleaning these rags.
Overall, I am disappointed in Nellie's Soap, especially after the thousands of excellent reviews it has received. I do about 6 loads of laundry a week. I don't notice a big difference in washing every day clothes that don't have any stains on them, but that is not where it counts. For blood stains, grease stains, smells and the overall maintenance of the washing machine, I find Nellie's Soap to not work well at all. I would use it until I am done with the tin, and I'll be stocking up on Charlie's Soap to make sure I never run out of that again.
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Product Description
Just when you thought washing your family’s underwear couldn’t get more exciting, Nellie’s made a Laundry Soda that’s truly perfect for every household! Doing loads of laundry never sounded so good!
Made with only four ingredients, Laundry Soda is a highly concentrated formula that dissolves quickly in cold or hot water. Most importantly, it rinses completely clear, leaving the your skin and the environment as spotless as your clothes. So don’t worry – even your mother-in-law will approve!
Free from: Gluten, phosphates, chlorine, fragrance, optical brighteners, and solid synthetics.
How To Use:
Use one tablespoon of Nellie’s Laundry Soda for each regular sized load. Wash according to instructions on garments. Always test on garments that may bleed or fade.
The important thing to remember is that while the scoop size looks small, it’s strongly concentrated and powerful!
Nellie’s Laundry Soda is safe for HE and standard washing machines. If you have an HE washing machine, we recommend adding the Laundry Soda directly in the drum with your clothes. The newer machines and HE machines do not have enough water pressure to fully clean out the dispensers of Nellie’s Laundry Soda.
Why Powder?
Powder is better! Traditional liquid detergents are made up largely of water. At Nellie’s, we don’t think selling and moving water around the planet is a very good idea.
The fact is, more cleaning power can be packed into a smaller space using powder. Nellie’s is more concentrated than other detergents so only one tablespoon is needed for a regular load.
Ingredients Include: Sodium Carbonate, Linear Alcohol Ethoxylate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Metasilicate.
Nellie's Story
Nellie’s was inspired by, you guessed it, Nellie! She was a real person with real values. She believed in honesty and simplicity, and she was going green long before the color was cool.
It’s these beliefs that made us love the Nellie name, which is why we’ve developed a line of cleaning products to honor her. Every dryerball, fragrance stick and laundry nugget is free of irritating toxins and phosphates, creating a hypoallergenic experience. Our items help to keep the environment as spotless as your clothes.
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