It is pretty available online from Amazon or Soakwash. And if you really want to walk into a store and put your mitts on a bottle, you can find it at most local yarn stores. Read more in Ingredients of concern below. If you are washing wool, we like Eucalan. This detergent cleans as well as the rest, plus it is inexpensive, no-rinse, and has lanolin in it to protect woolen fibers.
Sheep naturally have greasy, waterproofing lanolin in their wool. Washing wooly things in a detergent with lanolin helps soften them and strengthens their fibers against wear and tear. I did a side-by-side wash with Soak and Eucalan on a wool and silk scarf to literally get a feel for which made the fabric softer. Once my scarf was all laid out and dried, the half washed in Eucalan was a tiny bit softer, and the silk was a smidge shinier.
It comes in five scents and you can actually tell what they are by their names! One thing to note: Eucalan does contain methylchloroisothiazolinone , a preservative that causes an allergic rash in about five percent of the population. See our the section Ingredients of concern for more. Our delicates detergent for general use turns out to be the same as our laundry detergent pick. This limitation on its versatility, plus the fact that other detergents are simply easier to use, kept Tide out of our top spot.
Unlike our other picks, Tide detergent must be fully rinsed out with water. The detergent also had a slightly slimy feel when I used it for hand washing. But some people do. If either the scent or the dye bothers you, Tide Free and Gentle also cleaned quite well in our tests. Here are things you should not hand wash: suit jackets or anything with that kind of structure; very delicate beaded or sequined garments; leather. Other than that, go for it. But check the label first.
At least if you take it to the cleaners and they screw it up, you can make them pay for it. Silk does tend to have problems with dyes bleeding, though. If you have a white silk blouse with bright red designs on it, be prepared for it to change to a pink blouse with pink designs after a sink bath. You can always color-test your silk by washing a discreet corner. If it runs, you must succumb; take it to a pro. Detergents made specifically for delicates have pretty much the same ingredients as regular laundry detergent , with a few exceptions.
Water— All the parts of detergent have to be dissolved in something. Life on our planet is water-based, so water it is. This is known as a solvent in some circles. Surfactants— Short for surface active agents, these do the cleaning. A few of the popular ones: sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate, lauryl glucoside, lauramine oxide, cocamidopropyl betaine, sodium methyl 2-sulfolaurate, decyl glucoside, etc.
Most detergents use more than one surfactant. Enzymes— These are biological-based molecules that help to get certain stains off your clothes. The most common ones in laundry detergent are amylase, which is found in our mouths and breaks down starches; lipases, which break down grease; and proteases, which break down protein and protein fibers such as wool or silk, to some extent.
Water softeners, or salts— These work by running interference with dissolved minerals in water, which can keep surfactants from cleaning well. Some examples are sodium carbonate, sodium aluminosilicate, and calcium chloride.
These compounds keep the bubbles to a minimum. Preservatives— These are important, since they keep bacteria and other nasties from growing in water-based detergents.
Preservatives can be anything from alcohols to methylisothiazolinone, and a small amount of people can be allergic. More info on that here. Fragrance— That dark angel. In some cases, this involves phthalates, a class of chemicals which make hard plastics more flexible. More on these compounds here. Methylisothiazolinone is sometimes used along with methylchloroisothiazolinone.
Preservatives are a very important ingredient, because they keep mold and bacteria from growing in the products that we use every day. This has the potential to make us very sick. However, this is a very rare allergy, according to dermatologist Erin Warshaw. Most of the detergents we tested have MI but our pick Soak and budget pick Tide do not. Eucalan does contain MCI. In this case, the surfactant is the cleaning agent, and it grabs the oil, creates a blob around it, and lets it be whisked away by water.
The concern with these surfactants is not the molecules themselves, but a carcinogenic compound that might be lurking within. For the rest of us, potential exposure is too small to be worrisome. Phthalates , which you can sometimes find in fragrance mixtures, are also in hundreds of different products. How exactly they affect human health, if at all, is not clear. Swadesh International. Rajvira Industries.
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