I snuck in some extra water in on the rinse in the Electrolux (over the boot like yours) and happy to report Mama Pinks Professional Tide rinsed very well. There were no bubbles.

My dream machine! Swoon

DH is a college coach; sounds like I need to get Sports Soap for him to use for his coaches uniforms.

Thanks for sharing.

You say that the scents are out, but have you tried the cleaned clothing since then? I have found that a lot of soaps seem to remove scent from cleaned clothing but within minutes of putting the clothes back on and the fabric heating up to your body temperature the smell returns. Thanks.

@ practigal....I'm teaching a big, high intensity class in about 2 hours, so I'll let you know. I did wash some beach towels, that had been sitting out in the heat and humidity (they were balled up, moist and NOT smelling lovely ;) I washed them with Sport Suds on Friday...and they still smell like clean, nothing!!

The stains on the microfiber towels I washed with Sport Suds did not come out, I mean not at all!!!!, but they smell like clean nothing! I think Sport Suds is great for deodorizing, but not for stains or spills and I would not wash whites in them, in hopes of any whitening or yellow removal.

Still sounds like it may be kin to CS. Just saying...

@ sparky823.....It might. After everyone yesterday was finding out that certain Oxi powders do not fully dissolve, I put a teaspoon of Sports Suds in a glass with very hot water. I stirred and stirred and then let it sit for a while....Almost all dissolved, but there were several pieces ranging in size from a large grain of sand to a piece of cooked rice that was rock hard!!! Feeling around the container, there are many, many pieces of what feel like calcified, petrified detergent.

:( Sports Suds might have had a funeral last night!!!!! LMAO

I wonder if the slower to dissolve bits are there to add some abrasion?

Or are the makers just being lazy and adding bad fillers that never dissolve (either on purpose or not)?

Welcome to the world of European washing machines! *lol* This is the rinse level on a load of blankets, using the Delicate cycle, in my Whirlpool Duet - with European programming, that is. The back of the tub is about 50% under water.

Whirlpool...the only way my Elux would see that much water is if I fill it by the detergent compartment.

I wish ALL American washers rinsed this DEEP!

(so envious of DEEP rinsing Euro. machines).

@ Whirlpool_trainee....WOW Alex, that is a deep water level!! That is even more than my Miele set to Water Plus and upping the water level for Cottons by 1.5 inches!

That is more water than my Electrolux would have used doing one weeks worth of laundry, LOL!!

On the Electrolux and also the Miele, Delicates Cycle uses a very slow, and not very assertive wash pattern, and the spin speed is quite slow. Is this good for a blanket? Will it clean, and then not leave it sopping wet? Not bad for the dryer, and does not take hours to dry? I like my blankets spun at 1400RPM.

This is the level I get when washing absorbent loads like these blankets or towels on Bulky or Delicate (not that I'd wash towels on Delicate...). It's the highest possible level. The thing with the European approach is that, yes, our (dish-) washers have their Eco cycles to make the government happy - but, as long as you don't press the Eco button, you can get as much heat and water as you like, because the Energy Label doesn't care for anything but the one dedicated Eco setting.

Larsi, I use Delicate because most of the blankets we have are either wool or something, well, delicate. It washes well enough to refresh them, as there are basically never stains on them. I re-spin them on the highest speed as well, although I take care that they aren't streched across the drum before the spin begins.