Don't you love it when everyone responds all at once?

All of those chemicals smell like nothing out of nature. Why anyone would want more of that overwhelming smell is beyound my understanding.

Most of our homes are full of these artificial smells and miasmic vapors that linger in everything from our hair care products to our dish soap to our laundry. Some people are walking depositories for these pervasive and unnatual scents, often times giving off the odor of multiple competing agents all at one time. Then, some add body perfume to the mix or put a scented candle into the mix and it is a sensory chaos and over load.

No....just NO.

Sorry that I am not the supporting comment that you may have been looking for. I know that I am not alone in feeling this way about these chemical scents. It is not surprising that most of my friends feel the same way. Shared values are a part of it, I guess.

All of that stuff pours down into the waste water and the river and the ground water that we need to keep usable for us all. Just where does anyone think it goes once it drains out of the washer? It does not disappear into oblivion, nor does it dissipated into nothingness. Think, also about where it is made. It did not just appear. Where did the chemicals come from? What exactly is in that jug of extra scent? It is not as benign as we want to believe it to be just because it has a name that includes the name of a flower. Be aware that no flowers were used to make it.

There is an entire and hugh industry built around creating these chemcial wonders of flavor and smell and feel of different products. It is really big business, really big! The unwitting public is their target. It is all designed to separate us from our money and immense profits for them.

No, no "Mountain Oyster Fresh" scent, please. The world does not need this nor the plastic bucket that it is sold in. This idea that we should have the freedom and ability to freely buy , sell and use all of these things and expect no consequences is one of the reasons that we are facing the environmental crisis that we are facing right now. It is a damaging sense of entitlement, collectively. It is not so much about what you or I do, or dont do. It is about what we do collectively. What we do collectivly is that we pour rivers of this stuff into our waterways every second of every day, collectively, and rivers of profit into the coffers of the 1% who see us as a never ending source of revenue. Collectivelly, we will buy anything that we can be convinced that we have a right to or a need for. "They" are good at that. That is what they do.

@wednesfay morning AMEN!!

Whew!

I see the commercials for these products all the time. I have never read a thread about it until I saw this one. How exactly do these products work? Particularly if they are added at the start of the load rather than in a rinse portion of a cycle? I am thinking that in order for them to work as advertised-fresh scent for weeks-they must have some compounds that are potentially damaging to a washer's components. I do use FS, but routinely use warm and hot water washes and only use powder to try and avoid the potential gumming up of my machine.

Any product that is touted to do something that is unnatural is probably best to be avoided. If something imparts a scent, for instance, that has a lasting presence, there is a reason that it does so and that is probably not a desirable thing and it should be highly suspect.

My young grandson used to stay with us a lot and when i washed his clothes the scent from the laundry products from his home would perfume my whole load of laundry and permeate the machine for a few washings. That is how pervasive it is!

Sometimes people will claim that this or that product has this or that effect on them. I suspect that much of that is purely subjective and speculation. How to be so specific when the reality is that many of us use so very many chemicals everyday in so many ways that it is hard to point a finger at any one element without a real scientifc assessment? So many things we think of as being benign really are not, at all.

Some of the product claims are downright frightening that a product can do that to your hair, or skin, or the air you breath, or the cream that stil remians like a mountain of plastic on top of that sweetened coffee drink. If it seems to good to be true...you know what.

I am very ecologically minded and care deeply about our planet and man's effect on it. I stopped using Miracle Gro on our garden after I read articles about its potential harm on the soil and earthworms.

As far as laundry products, I find it hard to believe that washing clothes that were previously washed in scented products using non-scented products for the new load would leave a scent that permeates a washing machine's tub and last for multiple loads. Unless those clothes were marinated in perfume or cologne, that just sounds far fetched to me.

Just looking for discussion on a new product for reviews. That is all.

armjim, it is true. His little britches and pjs smell so strongly of fabric softener that I smell it on the rest of the laundry and in the tub of the washer, and on him. they use whatever is sold at most grocery stores, nothing wierd or fancy.

As a matter of fact, the whole house can end up smelling like it.

If you are accustomed to using these scented products you might not smell it. I dont use them and really know when they are present.

I can even smell when my neighbor has come home from work and is taking a shower with the strongly scented soap that they use. I guess they must use the vent fan when they shower, thus spewing the scent to the outside near my house. and, we are in single family houses.

The smell coming from my other neighbors dryer vent is one way that I know which way the wind is blowing. I have to make sure that my doors and windows are not open but still it lingers in the garage. Whatever it is that they use reminds me of the cheap drugstore stuff that high school boy friends used to use. Do any of you boomers remember Jade East mens perfume? It was hot with all the teen boys. That is what my neighbors laundry smells smell like to me. It harkens back to horny teen aged boys and the inside of an old Chevy and drinking beer at the drive in.

It is not far fetched at all. That stuff is pervasive! It is meant to linger. It was engineered and formulated to do just that.

$12 plus tax for a 20 oz bottle of scent boosters!!

No, thank you.

I have a top load SQ washer. When I want some lingering scent in the laundry, I just use Ariel detergent. Ariel is $9 for 141 oz at WalMart.

I've seen people use on a single wash load, a strongly-scented detergent, added scent beads, liquid softener, and dryer sheets. Probably trying to combat the stench of their cold-water washing machine, LOL.

@Dorian Crouse - update! Fellow laundryphile in NYC tried the "Woodland Rain" scent - he describes it as a cross between Mexican Ariel and 1990s mens cologne. Mild though. IDK - still holding out hope that the Shea Blossom one smells good...