Hi Sea and welcome to the Laundry Room! re:power caps, did you buy the new caps, or the older ones with the green and blue separated liquids? I can tell you that I had no sour smell with the (older) caps. Haven't tried the brand new ones so can't speak for those. What I did have the smell with on certain loads was the intense fresh liquid. There's a few theories regarding the sour smell, any of which could be true. I think it's some sort of chemical reaction with fabric softener that hasn't been completely rinsed out of clothing. Perhaps once the clothing gets coated in FS it doesn't subsequently wash or rinse well after that, leading to our Mama P"s theory of oils/dirt being trapped in the fibers then when one uses Persil, all that residue starts getting pulled out, hence the sour smell. Not everyone has had this problem though, so you're probably going to have to do a few loads and see for yourself. I don't use any persils liquids or caps anymore, but I keep a small supply of pearls on hand for heavy duty jobs.

Hi Miami,

Thanks for the welcome.

The picture on Amazon shows the ones with two chambers--one blue, one green. Must be the older ones.

You will LOVE them!!! They are great on colours, darks, towels, sheets, blankets. You can use them basically on anything besides whites. They can be used on whites, with an oxi booster of Tide booster pod, but since you have enough Tide with Bleach powder to last until 2022...you can use these Persil pods on all but whites ;)

These pods are one of my VERY fav detergents!! The scent is phenomenal, and I have not once had any sour vomit smell, like I did with Persil powders and liquids. Love these caps/pods!!

@SEA SEA...

Welcome to the Laundry (fanatic) Room.

You'll have to wait to see what you actually get.

Amazon (and it's sellers) for what ever reason don't think it's necessary to update graphics on items being offered. Amazon has done this to me numerous times.

I hope you get the good smelling ones.

Larsi are you trying to subliminally convert me to completely Persil? and Pods at that? I've been debating on if I should buy more Cheer Powder once I run out for darks and colors or search within Persil.

Thanks everyone. I feel a little better than I was. Thanks for that. I kinda wigged out there.

I have another question about these Persil ProClean Power Caps if you don't mind. My washing machine is a top loader with a full fill. Do you think one pod would be enough or would two be better with all that water? I usually keep to powders because I know how much to use in my non-HE machine. I'm a little late to the pod party and don't have a lot of experience.

@ Sea Sea....for a deep fill, non-he washer I would DEF. use 2 pods!!!! 1 pod will only be enough for you, if the load is very small.

@Cedric....since I hate Cheer powder, I say yes....all Persil. LOL

Just a heads up. Target's cartwheel app has 20% off of Persil everything right now (exp. 4/1/17). Bundle that with their $2.00 coupon and you'll be about $4.00 off their Pro Clean and 2in1 Caps (approx. $8.00). $7.60+tax out the door with RedCard.

Walmart this morning

Y'all definitely have me addicted to laundry. Specifically Persil. I get excited every time I see a Persil ad.

Discount Drug Mart:

By the way the back of my newest bottle of Persil Pearls still says assembled in the USA from foreign ingredients. I haven't been looking lately but has anyone noticed if this is still the case?

Thanks for the input everyone. I've been learning a lot from your posts in the archives.

The Persil ProClean Power Caps arrived. They are the two chambered pod-like things--blue and green.

I did my first load of colors with them. Warm water, 30 minute soak in my full fill top loader. I used two caps based on Larsi's advise.

This was a usual type of color load for us in that it was mixed with my clothes (mine usually are not foul with odors, but I can manufacture some pretty good food/cooking stains and blood stains from being a hairdresser and sometimes the sheers slip) and husband's clothes are usually very foul with body odor with little to no stains. So, we both have our laundry issues, but different challenges.

I've recently been using half a cup of Biz or Borax in addition to detergent in each load of colors since the advise was given here to do this to assist in removing hubs BO from his clothes. This, has been a GREAT help! Even he has noticed his clothes are fresher and all around "feel" cleaner since I've been adding Biz or Borax to the wash loads. Hurray for Biz and Borax!

Anyhow, back to the Persil ProClean Power Caps. I decided to use no enhancers/additives with the trial run load so I could get a good read on how the Power Caps work for us.

My clothing came out very nice. Fresh and soft, but stains (blood in this instance) remained and appeared to be unchanged. This was disappointing as most detergents with enzymes can make my blood disappear. This aside, I was pleased with the scent post-dryer, because wet, out of the washer, the perfume scent was overbearing to me. I'm very glad the scent calmed down into a nice delicate aroma after the dryer.

Hubs clothes, did not do so well. The BO is still VERY strong, but now it is perfumed BO. He doesn't really get stains on his clothes, so no mark to judge for that. His clothing appears clean and fresh, but is not. It's perfumed smelly body odor.

I'll give these caps another try on the next color load with Biz or Borax and see how it does. For note, hubs foul clothing odor is something no detergent has been able to handle unassisted since they took powdered Wisk off the market. That was our go-to laundry detergent for many years. I could not have been happier with that product and I still miss it!!

Still, I'm disappointed two Persil ProClean Power Caps did not remove blood. Oh well.

First things first sweety..what is the temp of your warm water?

MamaP,

I don't know the actual temp of the water, but imagine drawing a bath for a toddler. That temp is what my warm wash temp is. Not too hotish warm, but not chilly warm either.

I think one problem is the water isn't warm enough. No you don't want colors in scalding hot of course, but I'd try around 120F. Body oils and sweat which is the culprit of the odors require very warm to hot to shift.

Also a bit of advice Borax is fine for colors, but I'd leave out the oxygen bleach as it will cause fading.

Blood can oxidize in warm and very cold. I'd try a prewash for things with blood using cool water. Or even a cool spray under the sink before washing.

Thanks MamaP for the info!

I have learned so much from you guys!

:)

With a top loader it would be very difficult to deodorize clothes. As @mamapinky says, that only can be done with hot water. I had smelly sheets when we were washing in the apartment house top loaders. Two hot washes in a front loader with a heater got rid of the odor.

Persil is an excellent laundry detergent all around. You might try adding about 6 to 8 quarts of just boiled water to a load of your DH's clothes. I would separate those into a load then wash as usual. Bet you will see a difference that no detergent can really make. That was @mamapinky's trick with her top loader.

The difference will be the water temperature.

Thank you Rococogurl. I can add some boiling water to hubs laundry. I've never done that. I've learned so much here in the Laundry Academy and I'm using and doing things I've not known to do before.

I didn't know about this forum when we needed to buy a new washing machine 6 months ago. We have space limitations for where the w/d live and also narrow doorways (older house). I shopped for washers by means of measurements. Our list of candidate washers was short that would fit into the house. A GE top loader which seemed flimsy and crazy loud, a Speed Queen top and front loader and some front loader machine made in Sweden or Slovenia (might have been an Asko) and a compact Electrolux. We had two Fridgidaire Affinities prior, which were made by Electrolux and they were problematic so we didn't consider the compact Electrolux. The european washer scared us because we live in the mountains and who would service it? I wanted the european front loader but hubs felt we would be without a qualified repair tech if we bought it (the retailer has a poor reputation for repair service). We ended up with the Speed Queen top loader because it felt substantial, it fit in the house and we have a service provider an hour and half away who said they were willing to drive to us should the machine need service--and it was less expensive than a SQ front loader which we appreciated because we had already spent $1000 to reconfigure our laundry space to have side by side machines and room for a shelf or two. We had stacked machines with no cabinets, storage or shelves before.

I didn't know then what I know now after finding all of you...I like our Speed Queen washer, but being able to get hotter water for the price of the machine would have been nice. I might have made a mistake with my choice though. I do wish I knew you folks before I made my purchase.

Thanks again!!

The hot water function on a SQ is determined by what you have your hot water heater set at. Can you set your hot water heater at 120 to 125? Than you can run the load on the hot cycle.

Can't believe I forgot an important thing like prewash..I would wash hubs clothes seperatly and do a cool prewash before the main wash, otherwise the wash water is laden with body soils and will just remain in the fibers.

Let us know how it goes for you @SeaSea.

Hi again everyone!

Thanks again for the info. You have no idea how grateful I am.

In case Larsi see this, I did buy the Tide booster anti-BO pods you recommended. I hadn't used them yet when one of my daughter came home for a few days from college for spring break. She brought her dirty laundry home with her and plopped it down in the bathroom where the w/d live. I recognized the laundromat smell. I know that smell. Very well. Our former front loaders were out of service much of the time and we had many adventures at various laundromats over the twelve years we had front loaders. It's a different smell--that of unfamiliar people's body odor. I know everyone's "smell" in this family, and then I know "laundromat washed laundry smell". Different animals. Anyhow, she had intense laundromat odor in her laundry. I gave her the bag of Tide anti-BO pods. I figure she needs them to try and override having to use communal washing machines at college. Thank you for the recommendation, but now those pods are off to live a better life in Santa Cruz lol. I'll get another bag in a while for here.

So, on Friday night I did the pre-wash like you recommended MamaP. That is a great process. Wow! I'm embarrassed to say I've not used the pre-wash before. We are water-a-phobic here in CA and with my newish top loader I've felt guilty to indulge in such water luxury before. I used the pre-wash cycle and threw in half a scoop of powder detergent. Then I did a regular cycle with half hot water and half warm water with hubs only color clothing with borax with a 30 min soak (this Speed Queen seems like it is done with a cycle so soon I usually stop the machine after a few mins of agitation and let it soak. But that might just be me having been used to the long cycles on front loaders). Perfection!

He doesn't know about my enrollment here in the Laundry Academy because I'm afraid he might send for a wagon to come haul me away to the loony bin if he found out. It was bad enough when the UPS man came and delivered a box of Persil last week. Hubs said, "but you have laundry detergent. Why did you order more?" Um, well, I may have a little problem with laundry detergents lol.

So this thing happened yesterday evening. Unprompted, all on his own, hubs spent about 10 mins talking to me about he doesn't know what's different, but his clothes in the last few days have changed for the better. Ok. This is a man who doesn't think about laundry or even know how to turn on a washing machine. He was saying how his clothes feel much cleaner and smell so much better. He was gushing (!) about how he really likes that his clothes feel crisp and not slick or greasy (!!).He said it was wonderful to smell fresh clothing that wasn't perfumed, but was CLEAN and not his own body odor as he goes through his day. He said he can't put his finger on it, but if I've been doing anything different with the laundry, he'd really like it if I could keep doing cause he's really liking it. Awwww!!! Flutters in my heart. He wondered if it was our new Speed Queen washer and it took that long for the gunk to get beat out of the clothes...I told him that I've made some new friends in an on-line laundry room and I've been learning a lot of new stuff from them. I said, these people know laundry! You should have seen the smile on him. Too sweet. :) I thought I'd share with you :) He doesn't say much (anything) about his laundry, but apparently, he's been displeased with it just as I have been, but he never said anything about it. Thank you! So much!

Rococogurl,

I haven't used the boiling water yet, but in a few days I'll be ready to wash and soak my work towels, aprons, and client smocks and I'm going to use it then. I wanted to try the pre-wash cycle first because it's easier, but I will use it on hubs clothing when he has filled the hamper again.

As for the Persil, I'll give it another try next week with the extra steps above and hopefully it does a better job for us. I used powder Cheer and Borax this weekend with excellent results.

Yay!! I'm so happy!!

Congrats on becoming a confirmed SLP -- serious laundry person". Praise for the outcome is the highest level of satisfaction!!