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Is Tide liquid a lot stronger than Tide Free and Gentle?

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

My husband is a chef and after trying numerous natural detergents, I decided to stop fooling around with them and switched to Tide Free and Gentle for our normal laundry and Tide original liquid for his chef clothes. I am having a hard time with the scent! I don't really care for any scented laundry. I have thought about just using the Tide F&G but I'm afraid it's not strong enough. We have hard water, a FL machine and a septic tank.

Now I was just reading where it says to not use liquid detergents because they are bad for the septic system and gunk up he machines. Is that true??

Is the Tide original that much stronger of a laundry detergent?

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sparky823
7 years ago
I used it before but it has been a few years ago. It wasnt cleaning well for me so I called Tide. The lady told me to just use more even when I was using the amount they said to (HE). Not sure if the "original" was stronger but probably was. I just went back to using All Free. I like powder best and the All free powder has enzymes and is HE. I like Tide powder original but they can't leave the scent alone. You might try the Wisk Free. At one time in test it was the #1 detergent. It would be worth a try.
Jayme Smith
Original Author
7 years ago
Hm, good to know! I've been steering clear of powder detergents because we had a repair person out and he thought that was what was causing build up on our machine (don't know how much truth there is in that though lol). We were also told by a septic tank cleaner not to use powder. I saw the All Free and Clear powder today and was so tempted by it!
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sparky823
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
My wash water has gone into a septic tank since 1975-6 and I have never had a problem from that and always used powder for the most part. Have used some liquid now and then. I do like Wisk. Cheer also has a free/clear formula liquid only but there again prefer powder Cheer especially for colors(don't fade). If your husbands clothes are greasy/oily the Wisk Free probably would clean them best. But if you want to try the All powder I dont think one box would mess up any of your lines or machine.
Jayme Smith thanked sparky823
mamapinky0
7 years ago
I highly doubt powdered laundry detergent is clogging anything unless your using cold water. OHO
mamapinky0
7 years ago
Jayme...reg liquid tide is not stronger than liquid tide free..they both have 3 enzymes. I use powdered tide free with 2enzymes but it also has oxygen bleach which works extremely well, of course you'd want that for whites or light colors.

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