Hi Cheryl, thanks for your warm greeting! I do enjoy everyone's great ideas here and detergent reviews. Makes me feel good that I can control myself not to buy so much as I used to. I am using free and clear arm and hammer on my son's clothing and bedding. He is allergic to enzymes as you know, so I don't have much choice with him. I do like his clothing stain free and bright and clean. So I have to pretreat all stains then wash it out by hand and then it goes into the washing machine. I use carbona color catchers in his loads even though I do sort the laundry. They catch anything that runs and I find his clothing, especially whites stay brighter that way. I use it on my own laundry as well because I have sensitive skin also. Everyone else's darks get regular tide (I am one of the few that don't mind the new scent, because it's light and doesn't irritate my head). All the whites get Persil pearls. I do still use the sttp in the loads that I am able to. I love it. Thanks so much with helping me with that! I will try to post when I can, and feel I can add to a discussion. Things have been very busy lately. Nice speaking with you again!

Btw, what ever happened with the tub of your speed queen? Was that ever resolved?

The tub was assessed..the dealer sent a crew out and they tried to say it was a tomato sauce stain..lol. they said they have no idea what it is but it can't be rust, I told them sure it could be if a fragment of metal got stuck somehow in the stainless, there's no other explanation, anyway they suggested I try barkeepers friend and buff it out which I haven't yet, but I will get to that soon, the roughness around the bottom of the tub seemed to smooth itself out so although I still see it, its no longer rough. My only option is them installing a new tub which I'm not thrilled about so hopefully I don't have to do that. Otherwise I LOVE this machine. You also have a SQ, don't you?

I'm glad your happy with the STPP, I can't imagine laundry without it, everything is cleaner, brighter, softer and rinses so much better. Take Care.

Yes, Cheryl, I do have a speed queen. I did give in and bought the purex with oxy powder today. Got my good friend to buy it also. I used it with stpp on my non allergic son's white load. I did stop the machine for an hour. Everything came out very clean, white and smelling great. I had my husband smell it tonight, and his reaction was that it smells like detergents did years ago. My friend also loved it's scent. So here's another good one for anyone interested to try.

I plan to pick it up tomorrow Beth..I know my Walmart has it. I don't think there's any enzymes in it but I always say if you add STPP to a bottom shelf detergent sometimes you get fantastic results. I'm all for trying a detergent that has an old fashioned scent to it. Thank You for the tip about the Purex with Oxi...

I've often wondered about this Purex Powder. Not sure why I haven't tried it... There's even supposed to be one with "Fresh Water Crystals" :)

Curious, is it sudsy? It's a one cup powder, IRRC.

I was just reading Walmarts site..it says its for all HE machines.

It comes with a scooper. I used almost a full scoop, which I measured and it was almost a cup. I added a half scoop of stpp( the scoop that comes with the stpp ftom daphna general). It was sudsy at the beginning of the cycle, but it all died down by mid cycle. Anyone near a shoprite, it's on sale for $1.99 this week.

I did notice it says for All HE machines. I've used these big box formulas in the past, not the Purex with Oxi and they usually suds up at the beginning but fairly quickly the suds disappear. I will pick this up this evening and try it with my best laundry buddy STPP lol. No Shoprites in my area. I'll go thru my coupons I may have some.

ShopRite... Lucky Guys, Wish I was up north this week ;)

I'm in the North..but never heard of Shoprite.

@mamapinky0, I know they have stores in MD, CT, NY & NJ... But looking online, it sounds like they might have stores in Phili as well. :)

I know I've posted about them before. I found Chinese Tide there :)

Ya I checked Mich, closest Shoprite to me is 14 hours away lol.

Cheryl, did you mean 4 hours away? How far are you from Jersey?

Btw, after doing some more loads with the purex, I am not as crazy about it as I was at first. In the box it smells great, but when it's all said and done it smells a little cheap to me. Not terrible, but not as amazing as I thought yesterday. Maybe it also depends on what the garments are made of.

Beth, I'm close to Pittsburgh. So roughly 365 miles..LOL

I like Purex powder but dislike the liquids. After rinsing there's very little scent. I use the lavender. It's a huge box and it's super cheap. I don't think I'd use it for whites without adding to it but it does well enough for normal loads.

@sandy1616... I don't think the Liquids are so bad. I mean.. as long as your clothes aren't very badly stained, most things will come very clean, and fresh smelling. Add STPP... and you've got a wonderful liquid detergent for a top-loading machine.

Purex can be very sudsy, depending on what bottle you grab. Haven't used the stuff in a long time.. but the "Triple Action Purex" from 2011... wasn't too bad.

Obviously.. we're not dealing with a TOL Detergent. It's not going to do a number on enzyme-cocktail Tide, or Wisk. But.. if boosted, or under the right conditions.. it's not for the worse.

I've never really used Purex Powder. When we vacationed in New Orleans years ago though, the resort I stayed at... gave us an ample supply of (1-load) non-he Purex Powder boxes. I tried using one.. and it was like quad-triple suds-o-rama. Suds... almost came close to coming out of the detergent drawer.

Smelled wonderful though :)

I should have mentioned.. I've got a bunch of the Purex "UltraPacs" Pods super cheap, a while ago.. and they seemed to rinse well. :)

Mich, I also have the Purex Ultra Pods, I think Larsi and I both bought them awhile back, he probably already gave them to a neighbor, LOL.. these little guys will do the job providing I add Stpp, its those concentrated Surfactants. But the ALL flavored pods that you sent do a better job without STPP. A sew days ago I used the ALL Pods in a muddy nadty load of sons, he slid down a muddy bank while hiking, I did a cool prewash than I washed in hot with 1 ALL pod and 1 scoop of Sears..spotless.

The Purex powder isn't any bubblier than Tide. My water is soft and at 2 Tbsp per load everything rinses well.

My local walmart was out of the Purex with Oxi. .but I grabbed Purex with Bleach Alt. Doesnt smell bad in the box, actually I think I like the scent. I have my usual load of white bath towels and white face clothes to do i n a few minutes so I'll try this stuff. LOL. I'm sending in 2 pics....Mich what do you think about the ingredients? ?

My towels are washing in the Purex with Bleach. The wash water smells sooo good. The directions say for an extra large or heavy soiled load use 9oz..that's more than a freekin cup...so I used.....9 oz. LOL and Hot water..yes there was suds, but not much concidering how much I used and they dissapeared after I shut it off for *SOAK TIME* LOL. So they are sosking right now, I'll resume the wash cycle in about an hour. I am really liking the scent of this. And I will probably use Gain original scent FS mixed with Downy Free. I will let you know how they turn out.

P, did you use STPP or sodium percarb in load of towels? 9 oz. sounds like an awful lot. No way would I add that much! I would have suds coming out the ying yang. LOL

Hi Bea..this psssed me by somehow. No I didn't add STPP or oxygen bleach, just the detergent. I honestly didn't have much suds and after the rinse when they died down they never reappeared....the towels ended up clean and white, but they were already white lol, one use wouldn't make a dingy towel. But I wonder if they would stay white if this is what I continued to use. Which I'm not going to find out, LOL..I like white towels washed with Tide with Bleach and STPP to aid with good rinsing.

Now today I used the Purex powder on a load of colors moderate to heavy soils but I added STPP, and hot water there was no suds at all and I used a full cup. Suds tests on towels are never a fair test since they always kick up the suds. The colors were probably soiled enough to kick down the suds, the heavier the soil the less suds, for me anyway. Everything came clean, This also wasn't a fair test as I added STPP. All in all Bea I had acceptable results so far, but I have a feeling without STPP it wouldn't have worked very well without the phosphates. Just a feeling. But it was fun to play around with it.haha