/wonder how old the oxydol and era are? Don't think they are making p. era anymore. And the clorox 2 don't think I would trust it that old.

I remember, seeing boxes of Era... with "suds action"... I kinda wanted to buy a box, to see how sudsy it was in a Top Loader ;)

Hi Bea, lol I did buy the Clorox ll. The box was in mint condition and there's no lumps, mr Masterocco, store owner has a very nice temp controlled warehouse in the back, I'm fairly confident its ok..hand print box was not on sale and there's a ton of them.

Mich I used to use Tide Free powder or Pods on my 6year kiddo with asthma, than Sparky recommended All Free powder, and I like it a lot it doesn't have a chemical scent like Tide Free powder , and after several months everything is still white and bright...now Tide Pods Free, will clean even the dirtiest clothes and leaves a scent of just clean.

Bea, I think P&G stopped making p.Era in the US in 2011.

Mich, I have some era out, in one of my jars, later this week I will get a load going with it and post a pic..lol.

Bea sorry I forgot to add my P.Era is dated 2010

@mamapinky0, I don't typically use Free & Clear or Free & Gentle detergents, although... I had previously bought a bottle for washing towels, alone.

However... while shopping for Groceries, one day... there was a Tide Rep, handing out samples of those Free & Gentle Pods. I took the 5 pack home, and was extremely impressed. I ended up buying two bags, on my next trip, and zip-locking them lol :-)

But... the scent of the All Pods, are really my favorite. I really couldn't stand the scents of the Tide Pods, almost all of them made me gag. And the Purex ones, smell okay... but the cleaning isn't there.

To bad you can't Huff pods thru the bag, I'd be huffing the All Paks.

I used to keep one of those mini-cork screws on my key chains. You could poke a really small hole near the top of the bag, without destroying anything, and see what it smells like.

Not sure if that'd be frowned upon here, though.

LMAO...even a safety pin would work.

LMAO mamapinky and mitch! Now I may have to try the All paks, too! Very tempting because I also can't stand the way the Tide pods smell. My BF had a bunch in a ridiculous noxious scent that he was using when we moved in together a few months ago. He refuses to use anything but pods, and the smell of them also makes me gag. As soon as he left for his first business trip, I "used them all up" (code - donated to the trash, I was sorry for the waste but they were toxic and even made my garbage stink, couldn't pass those on!), and bought him some that were less offensive to my nose. He wondered how I went through 50-odd pods in a week, but never questioned it! HA! I still don't like the smell when he does laundry, so if the All pods smell good I will gladly buy those for him to use!

@clean_and_bright, there are different bags of All. Some of the "After Rain" or Mountain something scent, those aren't as good. Your looking for the one, that says "stainlifter" on the bag. It has a semi-sweet, but very clean scent to it. It smells nothing like Tide Powder, or Original Scent Tide Liquid does now.

I like, it anyway :-) and the cleaning is pretty good, it does have enzymes. As for your boyfriend, why don't you just do his laundry, lol :)

Mich, lmao @ why don't you do his laundry.

I'm running into walmart for carrots, potatoes, milk, and to smell these pods, I'm armed with a safety pin. You don't even know how many times I've bought detergent only to find Oops, I already have it lol.

@mamapinky0, well if there living together, I don't see why not. I do my boyfriend's laundry, lol :-)

I'm joking Mich, and I do my hubs, but if he doesn't knock off his bad attitude he's had lately, he can go to the laundramat. Lol

LOL mama and mitch! Mama, I can just see you with a safety pin in the detergent aisle, very clever indeed! Did you get a whiff of the All stain lifter pacs? Curious what you thought about the scent. I noticed there is a great deal on these on Amazon, 9.97 for 72 pacs.

I am holding out on offering to do BF's laundry, because I want him to have at least ONE household chore that he is responsible for. I wash everything but his clothes. I am super particular about cleanliness and how things "should" be done and where things should go etc., so he basically doesn't have to do anything but wash his clothes. I figure it's one chore I don't have to oversee. OTOH, last week he washed and dried a paper towel and left a trail of lint all over the house. I was fuming! Hmmm. Mama, I wouldn't blame you for sending hubs to the laundromat!

OMG LMAO! Mama, you are too funny. I can just picture that scenario. Your hubs sounds pretty cool to keep guard so you could poke and huff the All pacs!! Oh, I needed that belly laugh tonight :-) Ah yes, I have also learned it is best to go shopping for laundry detergent ALONE, and then to quietly and deliberately bring packages in at the right moment, so as not to bring any attention to said purchases! My BF used to find my laundry "habit" endearing, but now he rolls his eyes and balks if I bring home more laundry detergents. Meh, in this case, I think what he doesn't know won't hurt him so I do my shopping/testing when he is not around ;) Glad you liked the detergent, and glad you will still get it without hubs defiling you beautiful speed queen! ;-)

I do all the grocery shopping, so I'm good on that point.

And I've learned that ottomans can make wonderful hiding spots ;) lmao.

@mamapinky0, I knew you'd like it ;) It's definitely different, from anything I've ever smelled before.

try this--leave the detergent in the car and bring it in the next morning. this works well for me. lmao. Loving the Mama story with the safety pin! Great idea, btw. Now how can we huff powder without damaging the box? Would the safety pin work on the boxes too? lol

@miami Miami, try smelling it near the little pull tab to open the box, that typically works, or a corner, where the box seals :-)

Funny thing is, P&G pokes little holes in bags of Cascade Action Pacs. If you look at the back you'll see what I mean. Why no one does this for laundry, I'll never know :p

Too bad about the All Pink. Walgreens has it on sale now and then and list powder but I never go there. I just get mine at WMart.

About the smell of pods--best I have smelled is the Tide 4in1 with Febreze Refreshing Rain or something about Rain. Now to me they smell so clean and fresh. Most of the pods have too much chemical smell for me. I have used the All F&C and they dont smell chemical as Tide Free but now I didnt smell that on the clothes, just in the bag. The Ocean Mist and Forest from Tide are awful.

Wish they still made Duz, it had a fresh smell. (OR Fab 1 shot )

Duz, I remember it as a child, mom used it.

I have a 72 pack of Tide Pods Ocean Mist, the things stink to high heavens to me, but there's no doubt those little things are loaded with enxymes.

OMG. I have a full 72-ct Container of those Ocean Mist pods, from the launch. They we're free with a P&G Coupon.... but, yeah, horrific scent.

The Tide Liquid Free & Gentle, smells like Cat Urine in the bottle. Very Chemically... although, it does leave clothes smelling really fresh, once rinsed away. I don't think the F&G Pods though.. smell so bad.

Honestly... almost all of the Tide Liquids, being sold now, make me wanna gag. The worst is the Tide W/Downy Clean Breeze. Regular Tide Clean Breeze smells a million times better.

I know Mich I think they are all horrific smelling also, but they are excellent at cleaning..too bad P&G can't figure that out and make an acceptable scent.

Ughhhh, Ocean Mist Tide pods kill me, so gross. Of course I bought the big container with like 876 pods too. I was giving them out left and right!!! After a dinner party.....Oh don't forget your gladware with lasagna and your ziploc bag with 123 Tide Ocean Mist pods!! LOL

LMAO, haha. Hehe...ROFL so funny Lars, that's what I should do with my pods and the 3 giant boxes of Surf.lol

larsi-too damn funny! Ziplock with pods! Ha!

@mamapinky0, Did those all pods, you smelled remind you in anyway of Wisk? I was out shopping yesterday, and noticed bottles of the Liquid Small & Mighty on sale... but they smelled very different. I didn't have time to check the pods, but I don't think they've been changed.

But if they smell or remind you of Wisk Deep Clean, or All Fresh Rain liquid, those are not it. I'm hoping the pods are unchanged, and I'll check them, while I'm out shopping today ;)

@Larsi. That's so funny, and genius too ;)

@LOL Larsi, very funny!

@Mitch, please let us know if you stop and huff the pods today, because I am thinking about buying them from Amazon and would like your scent approval first!

@clean_and_bright, I'm at Walgreens now. And I picked up the bag, and it seemed familiar, although I couldn't smell much. But I wasn't going to pop a small hole, with a huge security monitor overlooking the aisle :p

They also had a small box, of Tide Powder with the old scent. But at $8.29 for a twenty load box, figured it wasn't worth it.

I went into Target, and didn't see the All Pacs, I had liked before. So I didn't get a chance to check today. With that said... I'm calling Sun Products/All tomorrow, and posting there response.

On another note... while shopping at Target, I found Cheer Powder again, with No OB's. Even better, it was HE... and only $9.99 for 80 Loads. I grabbed a box, and am quite excited to use it for a while :-)

Mitch: Dont you think the All S&M smells different just because it is so concentrated compared to the other?

Was the Cheer powder for all machines or strictly for HE machines?? I love Cheer powder and used the regular kind in f/l for years with no problems. I bought liquid Cheer one time because a store had it on clearance and I got the 100oz sizeHE for $3.25 They had it marked $4.25 but I had a 50 cent coupon and they double so I couldn't pass it up. I liked it too. I will say for some reason the door gasket seems cleaner with Cheer liquid than anything. Not sure if you have ever run your hand around the gasket after getting out the clothes and it will sometimes feel like little pieces of lint or grit on there. With liquid Cheer feels totally different--smooth and nothing else. But I am more a powder person. Dont want a stinking washer later.

P&G told me Cheer powder now only comes in *he safe for both*If you found HE mich that's great.

I was wondering the same Pink. I knew Sams used to have HE but that was the only place. They told me it was a trial at Sams. Kinda like them saying people were loving the new scent of Tide. I dont believe that crap or there is a lot of people that cant smell!.

@Sparky & Mamapinky0, It was for both machines. I'm not sure... if they've changed it whatsoever yet, however... I used a lot of the non-he powder just fine. :-)

Does cheer powder have enzymes? How well does it tackle stains?

Blue, powder Cheer Stay colorful does have enzymes its a very good detergent and has an old fashioned detergent scent rather than a sweet candy scent. I do love it.

I think the powder Cheer has 1 enzyme and the liquid has 3

Pink: Is the latest Cheer powder blue? Maybe it has bluing like years ago. The one I have is white powder but I have had mine for a long time cause it is the huge box and I just do colors once a week so it last me a looong time..

It looks like that family owned store doesn't sell very many boxes of powdered detergent except when mamapinky pays them a visit, that box of Clorox II is an antique. ; )

As for All Oxi Free & Clear: I stock up every time a store has it on sale, it's basically the same thing as Wisk but it only has two enzymes.

Pink: LOL I just noticed when you put blue powder you were referring to Lets go Blue. I was excited, thought maybe they had changed Cheer back to blue. I'm half blind evidently.

Parky, lol if they gave us Blue Cheer back...I'd be jumping loops..wouldn't that be nice though to have blue cheer again.

Thanks for the info mama!

Your very welcome Blues

Sparky my S didn't show, sorry you were Parky in my last post...sometimes typing is so hard on a phone lol

I know I didnt think anything about it. I do it on the computer too. If I had to type on the phone all time I would be crazy. Too easy to hit the wrong thing and auto correct can really get you in a mess sometimes LOL

I don't have a computer except a lap top and I hate it. I think tomorrow I'll dig the 10 inch tablet out and try that its gotta be easier than this phone

I called Sun Products/All Today. They said the packaging had changed a little in 2013, to promote "cold water dissolving" but the scent of the mighty pacs hasn't been changed.

The Mighty Pacs at Walgreens, did smell very familiar, even though I couldn't take much of a whiff. But I feel confident.