Great news doreycrouse! Thanks for sharing. I know a few folks who could use this...

Sea Sea, SAME! I might just recommend it to a few people as well! Lol.

Another marketing product attempting to fix cold-water problems. :-)

dadoes, it certainly is! However, I look forward to its benefits with just regular washing!

It might be really helpful with the stinky funk of athletic garment wicking fibers.

@SEA SEA, I will be trying this as well. I purchased it a few days ago and am just waiting for it to be delivered. I was going to wait to tell you until I officially tested it.

Oh good littlegreeny. Do let us know if it makes a noticable improvement!

I wonder if it could be used with dark/black clothes.

I‘d love to know if it works as well. I have had this problem with clothes and biostink. I tried Defunkify laundry detergent and it did not do much.

I feel like I should be doing something I am not doing, reading this thread. Much of my day is spent working on our landscape, and I do all the mowing/weeding/edging myself. I sweat, or is it perspire, and I do get dirty. When I launder the clothes I wore, they get washed with other clothes, in Gain Powder and 24 Mule Team Borax in warm water. I have a nose that can discern odors a mile away, and my clothes always smell clean and fresh. They look clean to the naked eye short of any stains if I did not pretreat them. Now I know my laundry would NOT pass the SEA SEA/Greeny/Dorey test, but am I really off base not adding an additional enzyme to my routine?

Yes, armjim, I am sure your laundry would pass just fine. Like littlegreeny says, if after being storage and no permastink, you are fine. It happens here sometimes, even with all the things we do. But it's 90% less than when we had crummy washers.

The booster should work great with darks and colors if you add a soak too! Results won’t be as good with shorter exposure. With further research, the Tartaric Acid seems to be more of an optical brightener compared to a bleach activator. Disappointing, but likely isn’t anything potent especially for the small dose.

I am stubborn. Can’t guarantee anything would pass! Lol. Some of my own don’t! Though, that is with the GE we currently are using! My brother is in Landscaping. A majority of his clothes don’t pass!

I appreciate the votes of confidence, and I'm glad to relate with Dorey. I was doing the first load this morning and I was standing there and thought now what would they do if they thought this temp was not quite warm enough for the load at hand, but hot would be too hot. So I stood there mixing the water via switching between Hot and warm until I was satisfied I would get the results that are satisfactory. That is what ya'll have done to me.

A few washers in the past (1950s and 1960s) had 3-chamber inlet valves with separate solenoids for cold, warm (cold + hot), and hot. This design allowed a Cool temperature (mix of cold and warm) and a Medium temperature (mix of Warm and Hot). Some machines nowadays with ATC sensors have several choices toward the cold end (Tap Cold, controlled Cold, Cool, Colors (less than Warm, more than Cool), and Warm (although it's restricted, not like the Warm of the 50s, 60s, and 70s). There was a brand in the late 1990s into the 2010s that had a medium (or Warm+) temperature on some models via ATC.

I was able to do a slightly decent test of the Ariel pods with Phosphodiesterase. I have a load of 7 towels that I was able to get my hands on that have permastink. I washed them in an LG front loader, Normal cycle, warm wash (85°F), and a splash of Downy. No other additives. I wanted to use a lower temp and shorter wash time to see what they can really do with what the average person will do.

First, I am more than impressed with the All-in-1 Pods ability to keep suds non-existent in the wash and both rinses. Very clear water. Second, the smell is much better. I would say 80% better. Of course, a higher temp wash would do better, but that wasn’t the point. Likely a longer wash would do more as well. Third, the towels are fluffier and feel lighter. I’m hoping that isn’t from all the body grime being removed. I will try and use one of the towels tomorrow morning and see how it is when it is damp again!

Towel was better than before, though not 100%.

dadoes, my washer is a 2017 SQ which as you know gets its eco rating by having a cycle that has a spray rinse rather than a deep rinse. The water temp is all based on tap temperature. Hot is very hot because the WH is set high-but warm I would have to say mixes a lot of cold water in, so the final temperature is warm, but not very warm. I believe it is due to pressure or flow from the pipes. This machine does not have an ATC and is a true analog machine (as you and I have discussed in other threads). My previous washer was a 2011 FL LG. I did not have the ability with that one to really control the incoming water temp as easily as the SQ. Prior to the LG, I had a 2001 Kenmore FL. It had ATC as an option-but it also had settings that were dictated by the temp of the water at the tap. I got hot based on the WH setting as that one did not have an on-board heater.

Dorey, how dry do you let your towels get before taking them out of the dryer? For me I let the towels get very dry since I can smell that moldy/mildewy odor anytime I use a towel that had not been thoroughly dried. It was so bad when I had my first FL-I was also using liquid detergent then, and that was what made me start researching and led me to Houzz (Then the Garden Web). It is really interesting how just the smallest anomaly affects our results.

Following. I love to know what is new and what is working for people. Thank you for posting.

@armjim, the inlet valve on your SQ may have a flow restrictor on the hot side that gives a 30% hot / 70% cold proportion for warm. Or it could be 40% / 60%. 50/50 valves (no restriction on hot) prit'much went away some years ago.

armjim, bone dry! With towels I always like to slightly overdry to prevent the issues you mentioned!

Mrs. S, I do too! Not many people discuss it though..

I dry everything, including towels, to the designated Normal dry level. No musty odor on anything ... towels and wash cloths in storage for weeks+ until they rotate through usage again, nada.

I am continuing to enjoy using the Dirty Labs booster. I have been using Persil Oxi liquid and just 1 scoop of the booster. Results have always been great. I washed my work jacket after 1 month of use. It came completely clean without pretreating. Sheets seem to smell like they are getting a deeper clean. I continue to be impressed.