As part of the results of hair-shirt environmentalism and enshittfication of everything you likely have noticed that your clothes are not as clean as they used to be some years ago, even as you've had to buy high-efficiency washing machines and detergent.
This is because environmentalists and progressives worked to remove phosphates from laundry detergents. Clothes haven't been properly clean since.
This has not gone unnoticed: Why Everything Is Dirtier
Strangely enough, one can find trisodium phosphate, TSP on Amazon.
Now I'm certainly not suggesting that one should theoretically take 1/4 cup of TSP, dissolve it in hot water (beign careful not to splash it one yourself), and then add it to your laundry washing water, add detergent and then add your dirty clothes and run the laundry.
But, if you theoretically did, and again certainly not advocating doing such a thing, you might very well notice they come out one heckuva lot cleaner than without the added TSP.
5 comments:
Been using tsp for years- got it for washing walls b4 painting, but then I remembered those old ads “now…with phosphates”. ‘Specially good for work clothes- but it works in all laundry, hypothetically speaking, of course.
THat is a rather lot of TSP. About 1/3 that is a better place to start.
Theoretically.
doubletrouble: Yep it theoretically gets things impressively much cleaner than without it, or so I;m told.
B: Interesting, some source say 1/4 cup for a full laundry load, others indicate less. I may theoretically try less and see how it goes.
Laundry detergent? Pshaw. I use 1/2 cup Dawn dishwashing detergent. It's the best at removing food and other greases.
Regarding TSP, some states that have outlawed TSP also have outlawed the importation of said TSP.
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