SUITABLE WASHING DETERGENT

Hi Mrs GT

Don't detergents work in hard water? When washing powders were soap based, hard water was an issue. Most people these days probably haven't heard of hard water. I choose an environmentally friendly supermarket brand, keep soap and detergent use to a minimum and never dispose of water where it can flow into rivers or streams. Although i use washing powder in my machine at home, i choose liquid for hand washing when travelling as it doesn't need dissolving so no undissolved detergent can be left on the clothes.

Motherhen

I have simply used a good quality powder detergent and have had satisfactory results with both machine and hand washing. If you are moving around you will certainly encounter many different water qualities, and as you say, much of the water inland is fairly hard.

I dont know where the latest push for low phosphorous detergents is coming from - extensive research in the 90s showed pretty conclusively that most of the phosphorous in our waterways (that encourages algal blooms) comes from sediment eroded into the water - not detergents and not even particularly from agricultural run-off.

Even so I am careful not to let any washing water from our camp get close to waterways.

Cheers,

Val

Look up laundry balls on the internet. I'm even using them home most of the time.Don't have to rinse.