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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    It's a mystery to me why clothes lines are no long popular.
    They were run out of town by building codes trying to maintain a certain public image.

    Of course, up here, for some months out of the year, we could use the freezer instead of the clothesline (we actually have a retractable one that we use sometimes to air things out).
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    Clothes lines also require a much longer time commitment than dryers. I’m not interested in dedicating a sizable portion of my weekend to doing laundry.

    Also, in the summer here the weather in our neighborhood is not conducive to hanging clothes out. The fog would just make them even wetter.

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    Just bought a bucket of Nellie’s laundry soda… 800 loads for $69 from Costco online. Reviews and those above make me want to try it. $20 off a container until 5/31….

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
    I've been using Nellie's Laundry Soda lately. It has no fragrance.
    Ingredients:
    SODA ASH - (SODIUM CARBONATE) also known as washing soda. In domestic use, it's used as a water softener during laundry.
    SODIUM METASILICATE - A major use is as a builder (a material that enhances or maintains the cleaning efficiency of a surfactant, principally by inactivating water hardness) in soaps and detergents
    SODIUM CHLORIDE - Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite. As well as the familiar uses of salt in cooking, salt is used in many applications, from manufacturing pulp and paper to setting dyes in textiles and fabric, to producing soaps and detergents.
    CITRIC ACID - This is a weak organic acid. It serves as an environmentally benign cleaning agent and acts as an antioxidant.
    The Detergent is a coconut based (LAURYL) Ethoxylated fatty alcohol. Coconut oil on its own will wash nothing. It is therefore chemically modified so that it becomes surface active and thus performs like a detergent. This commodity is widely used by many detergent manufacturers because it is readily biodegradable, non toxic and mild and efficient. It is also NOT Petroleum based.
    I also use and like this. You can usually find a small bag of it in Marshall's/TJ Maxx to try before buying a larger size. My clothes just smell clean, nothing artificial, even when washed in a dryer.

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    Frugal-one: please let us know how you like it. I hadn't heard of it before. We switched to unscented detergent a long time ago, and we don't use fabric softener. It's funny that I now really notice the smell of detergent or fabric softener on other people's clothing, and I can smell it outdoors when a neighbor has clothes in the dryer. We went fragrance-free unintentionally, I think we just bought something that was on sale, and there is no going back!

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    I've been using Dr. Bonner's sal soda detergent. Mainly because I cannot stand the smell of fake/chemical detergent. I also add Calgon and my clothes started getting a film on them after getting a new high efficiency washer...It has helped. I will put in some of my old detergent as I plan to use it all up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
    Just bought a bucket of Nellie’s laundry soda… 800 loads for $69 from Costco online. Reviews and those above make me want to try it. $20 off a container until 5/31….
    Rosarugosa…. Works well and is unscented! iIt should last a long while!

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