Downy Mountain Spring (bottle with the green cap) smells very fresh and clean to me. Not too strong, and nothing sweet or candy like. I use 1/2 to 3/4 cap with some water mixed in to keep the mixture thin. I really like it. Of course my FAVOURITE is the original Downy April Fresh, and luckily I have 2 HUGE bottles of the original scent. The Downy Mountain Spring, does smell similar to Irish Spring soap..which I love the smell of (drying and horrible for skin, but smells divine!). Maybe since Downy and Irish Spring soap are both P&G...they share scent formulas! :)

aliceinwonderland, Yes, I know about drinking grape juice. My mother was Italian and when we didn't drink a glass of red wine, we drank grape juice before anything else with our meals. So I have had a great share of delicious grape juice throughout my life. In fact I would have never thought my mother and my father would ever die of disease, because my mother made wonderful, healthy meals, hardly ever going out to eat, and hating fast food. So I know their disease came from other things around them. Since I want to be healthy for my family I try and find bad things to avoid and additional good things to take, to help me with the war against disease. I mainly drink filtered water, green and oolong teas with cinnamon sticks, apple cider with cinnamon sticks, pomegranate and grape juice. But thank you so much for recommending grape juice, for everyone else it is a great juice to take as it is a wonderful antioxidant. Now that I have listed all the things I do drink, maybe we can have some comments on what I truly posted on. I only added a small PS about something good I have started to share, yet the rest of this thread was about the huge dangers of fabric softener. Really are people that bent out of shape with a small suggestion of something good to take. Yet not bent of out shape with the idea that our whole society is brainwashed to put fabric softener in their rinse water? Since I see no way of editing my already posted thread, if someone knows how to get this thread off please do. It actually makes me sick with the way people like to point a finger at what another is doing wrong. Since that has become the main issue here. You know, people need to support one another more, take a look at the "March of the Penguins" movie, do you know how all those penguins survived deaths cold, where no other life has learnt to survive? Well they each take turns blocking the dead cold wind from each others backs. The inner circle of penguins were never told by the outer circle, hey youre getting something were not, because they know, their time will come when they would be in the inner circle getting warmed, and those that were warm would be in the outer circle once again. See our world is just a bunch of fighting seagulls instead; just looking to make sure that the seagull beside them doesnt get the extra scrap of food. It is really really sad, how people can only find the negative to comment about. If I didnt know the dangers of fabric softener, and came here and read this, I would just be glad someone came and posted it. Not say, oh look they added a small PS about a health drink, so they are just thinking about their own self profit. My true intention was to help bring awareness of a bigger problem as my heart aches with the ignorance of peoples ingestion of poison, and the growing number of deaths among our loved ones. My mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law all passed on within 22 months of each other, all with sudden quick growing cancers, if it can happen to them, it can happen to any of us. It all has to do with the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the things our bodies ingest from the chemicals around us. Things like the huge ongoing use of fabric softener. I found this laundry site through a Google search. I have been posting for a few weeks now, and have never added a PS before. Yet like I have already posted I just couldnt handle watching the fabric softener going so quickly at work, without trying to say something to someone, and since I knew about this laundry forum I thought of added a thread of friendly warning. Yet I cant believe I have to keep writing a truce about my small PS of a health drink, as I just wanted to include about something good I knew about too. When I went on the thread about Charlies Soap, it was a plug of something good, how come no one is upset that they are making sales because of that. I just dont understand people. Anyway I am tired of trying to defend myself here. I wont be back. Amigo Karen Oh PS - asolo - thought adios was goodbye, so goodbye. The link is a recommendation from aliceinwonderland, here's to your health, it is way better then fabric softener!

I realize this thread is 4 years old but wanted to add a note in case others are coming across it. To follow up on the conversation regarding methylisothiazolinone (MIT) and its related preservative compounds methylchlorisothiazolinone and benzisothiazolinone, in the years since this post, MIT has been classified as 2013 Allergen of the Year, and has been banned in Europe for leave-on products, and investigations are proceeding to find out if it can still be included in wash-off products at any safe level (no safe level has been found yet). In the US, however, despite some media attention there has been very little movement to restrict the usage of it in products. I've been running a community of those sensitized to MIT since 2012 and the growth has been exponential. One of the particulars is that MIT causes its own allergy through exposure, and it's magnified when people come in contact through multiple products. You can see some of the horrific pictures here: https://www.facebook.com/Allergy-to-Isothiazolinone-Methylisothiazolinone-and-Benzisothiazolinone-307128722674171/timeline/ It's particularly important for the home improvement industry to take not, as now 93% of house paints contain MIT, and 95% contain BIT. Airborne exposure, not previously considered, is horrendous for those who are allergic, and can cause significant reactions from respiratory to full-body rash to nervous system impact/muscle spasms. This is not trifling stuff, people - it's seriously dangerous and very little is being done about it. It's also in carpet glue, wallpaper adhesive and other liquid/gel products (and household cleaners and sprays, plus wipes).

Yeah, it was me. Our Miele Senior Tech, said that they see the most problems with people who use "green", plant based soaps and softeners. He said they gum up much easier, and are actually harder to rinse! He said of course Persil and Miele Care Collection have been tested the most in Miele machines, but most he detergents are fine. Actually, up until somewhat recently, Miele was listed on the back of Tide he, as a recommended and tested product! I use Persil Colour Gel and Ariel Gel mit ActiLift about 90% of the time. I recently picked up a HUGE bottle of Tide he liquid with a touch of Downy with ActiLift (it was on sale for $9.99...and is HUGE). I've done 3 loads with this he Tide liquid with Downy...and I am actually shocked how clean my clothes are. Smells great too. A soft version of Downy. I still use a little liquid Downy FS in the dispenser, but not too much since this detergent has Downy in it. Stains are gone, odors removed, soft clothes and smells really clean and soft!!