Larsi, I have a box of All Stainlifter, its a blue box with yellow and white handprints on it..I can't find a date on it, I found it in a little neighborhood independent grocery store. The ingredients list: anionic and/or nonanionic surfactants, water softener, fabric brightener, and perfume. Soo I'm thinking probably not great at soils but ok for freshening up. I haven't used it yet but it smells almost like old fashioned detergent, you know more soapy without the floral fruity stuff.

Here I go off to the store AGAIN. I am going to block you 2!! I have the pods and they perform well but are not He.

Excuse me they Are He!

Lmao..Jean, hehehe!!! You know there's no 12 step program for this. And eventually you will be ordering online, a LOT, the neighbors will be whispering and giving you strange looks while your at the clothsline hanging dazzeling whites. You will be making up excuses to run to the store for milk, taking a large purse so you can sneak that new bottle of detergents past the family. You will clear out an entire closet, to make room for your new **things**... you will search out little neighborhood grocery stores looking for that dusty old box of vintage powder that's still on a shelf after 32 years, and because you know you will never see it again since it was discontinued years ago you buy all 13 boxes even getting on the floor to search under the shelf because one may have fallen off.you will have shelves built in the laundry room so you can display this wonderful stash. Your hampers empty omg no laundry, so you strip the beds for the 3rd time this week because you must try this new and improved detergent. ..oh no Jean your now to deep into this strange addiction ever to be ....dirty again

Too late, mamapinky0! Oh my gosh I am not foolin anyone am I!! My entire family thinks this is so strange and now my daughter is starting her own collection! I think it's so much fun!

I was just on Facebook and saw a ad for Febreze scented with Tide Original. Hopefully it's the older version (yeah right). So now I will have to go pick up some milk and take my big purse!!

Larsi..let me know if your All Stainlifters is the same one I have..I will use mine tomorrow on a load of towels and report to you on cleaning, suds, rinse. Mine has nothing special no bleach, no enzymes so its probably no different than the other BOL detergents, but the scent is nice.I will probably end up eventually using it for just bath towels spiked with stpp and biz just so it doesn't go to waste.

Lol Jean, stand tall and proud and carry that big purse.

MaPink- I have a box of All Free/Clear Powder and it has enzymes whereas the liquid version of F/C does not. Not sure if blue box has them now or not? Maybe you got the "before" version if there is such a thing. Is it All that says on TV ads they are the detergent of Little League? But then seems someone else sponsers another company. Used to Oxydol with Biz was the "official" detergent of someone but I don't remember who. Maybe it is Wisk that is the other "official" brand???

mamapinky & jean....OMG...you two crack me up. I will try and locate a 12 step rehab program somewhere here, close to where I live. I'm thinking Malibu, CA. They will help you (maybe us, lol) with our laundry and detergent addictions. Sadly though, we will all probably escape our rooms together, during the night and sneak into the basement to use the commercial laundry machines and soaps and start washing for the other patients!!!! Ha ha ha ha :)

I second that or third it! Larsi if I had your Electrolux and some German Persil I would never leave the house.

I'm with you! Time and location? You know this could be a Dr. Phil episode. hehe. Mama, be sure to bring your stpp.

Sparky, I think my box of All detergent is old, probably from old stock in the little corner grocer where I found it, at least the box box pattern appears old, I can't seem to find any boxes of All with the hand print pattern, and this has no enzymes. I think I'll call the 800# on the box and ask them,they can date it from the lot # . Thank you Sparky.

Larsi, did you try your new All with stainlifters, what did you think??

Beaglenc, lol at us all being on Dr. Phil, and yep, my stpp goes with me lol.

Larsi, what kind of a store is Smart and Final??

Never mind..I see its a warehouse type of store like walmart. .we don't have them in my area so when you found Mexican downy there I wondered.lol

@larsi - LOL on the rehab comments! That famous consumer magazine currently lists the 'he' All stainlifter liquid in the middle of the pack for cleaning' just "average." I don't know how the powder would compare. They cannot possibly test all the detergents out there on the market or they would go crazy, especially with how quickly formulas change.

I'm at my part-time job, sitting at my desk in the middle of the room, laughing my head off and everyone around me is probably wondering why, if I am so old and feeble, I don't stay at home. I will never open this particular Forum up at work again. You guys are crazier that I am, and that's pretty bad. Of course, on my way home I will stop to get the A&H pods and throw them into the basement so Mr. Wonderful doesn't see them. Everyone is staring at me.

Lol Pat, keep laughing, its the best multivitiman in the world.

Pat, I am so glad! That just made my day. Also some bleach and Tide Simply Fresh and Clean blue label somehow made it's way into my car today. Rehab is out of the question because I got my fix!!

Jean your fix will only last so long, than you will be on the hunt again, hehe. I wish I could afford to start a collection of detergent from a

round the world. But with shipping costs from out of the country I know not to even start. I didn't get the A&H paks yet, no one has them in my little country town, so I have to wait till I go into the bigger town about 30 min away, probably this weekend. Jean be careful your powdered stash doesn't get damp, I put my boxes in those space bags that you remove the air from, I just have to be careful when I'm extracting the air that it doesn't make the boxes warp outta shape.lol.

Thank you mamapinky-I will remember that! My mind just goes and goes when I think about laundry detergents from around the world. I used to think about men along those lines what the hell happened??

Omg...sooo funny, I don't know about you Jean, but when menopause hit me all I wanted to snuggle with at bed time was clean, fresh smelling bedding lmao.

Good one Mamapinky that just cracked me up!!

I'm just glad I don't think like the two of you.

My husband is not only too arthritic to go downstairs to the basement, but he also has low vision. Sooooo, I bring in all my compulsions, like laundry detergent, succulents and cacti that I just happened to pick up from Home Depot or Lowes, and the newest and greatest dog food for my current guinea-pig-of-a-dog. They all make it to the basement one way or another before I get in the back door so nobody has to fret about how much money the little woman has spent on unnecessary items. Today I bought another bird feeder and hubs will never see it from where he sits. And I'll be happy that my birds are happy. And hubs will be happy because when the wife is happy, everybody is happy. Right?

Lol Pat...but I do think you ***Think Like the Two of You*** you sneak your stash of things to the basement haha. right past the unsuspecting hubs.lol. I can almost picture you and hubby sitting on the porch, you looking at the birds flocking around

And hubs content that the little woman is so peacefull tonight

My phone messed this up sent it in 2 and some is missing

I can't tell you how many times hubs has pointed to one of my detergents and said *when did you get that one* I say *now dear that's the one I got last month, remember we picked it up because its being discontinued and I'll never be able to get it* works everytime. Poor ma. Probably thinks he's getting at that age where his memory is going...lol

Ha! The Gaslight Method for Laundry Detergents! Make him think nothing is going on as you build up a stockpile right under his nose!! Pat you are just as bad!

Or maybe worse.