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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:08:04 -0500, Michael A. Ball
<Guardian@wireco.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:43:30 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote:
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>>color-safe bleach vs. bleach substitute
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>>Last night I needed clothes detergent, and about all the store sold
>>was Tide, and I had never used Tide before, and I bought some.
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>>But I notice that the powder came with "BLEACH" which the box said was
>>color-safe. OTOH, the liquid had "Bleach Substitute" in it.
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>>What do you suppose the difference is?
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>There is no difference, except in physical form. The Tide powder
>contains sodium percarbonate in powder form, and the Tide liquid contain
>sodium percarbonate in solution. Sodium percarbonate is the bleaching
>agent. The different wording, for sodium percarbonate, is primarily an
>experiment, or marketing ploy, for now.
>
>For some consumers, bleach is bleach, and comes only as a liquid. In a
>liquid detergent, it is a liquid bleach; and regardless of the label, it
>still might damage one's wash.
I tend to think that way myself. !!
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>Real bleach can not come in a powdered detergent, because bleach is a
>liquid; so, the powdered detergent is much safer.
I have been using powder for most of my life**, but I forget why. Since
they've included "bleach substitute" I wonder if that was one of the
factors.
Even though I keep getting water on my basement floor and the soap box
gets wet and sometimes falls apart and sometimes detergent gets on the
floor, and a bottle woudn't have most** of these problems.
**I kept a gallon (an almost cube shaped plastic gallon like milk
often comes in) of steam distilled water on the same floor, and
everything was fine for years. Then one day I took the bottle and put
it uptstairs on the formica counter in the kitchen. It chose that
night to leak and cause the stuff under the formica to swell. I do not
think it was a coincidence, but I do not know why it happened then.)
So, the liquid
>detergent Must have a bleach substitute.
Thanks for what seems like a comprehensive, very believable
explanation.
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