Has anyone tried the laundry sheets that dissolve?

It's a sheet of laundry soap. You put it in the washer, and it dissolves and supposedly leaves no trace, so there is no plastic jug, etc.

@MarieCoyle I agree on that; they want you to have to buy more so tell you to use more.

I honestly have found that for most liquid detergents, it does not take as much as it says on the bottle to do a load of clothes. I think they want us to use a lot of detergent, so we have to buy more, sooner! I am really tired of buying so many items in plastic tubs or jugs. I like to buy my dishwasher pods at Costco in the biggest container available there, which is like 110 ? little pods. When you open the little tub, it is only 3/4 full. If you get the smaller tub with less pods (more expensive per pod)it's the same way, only 3/4 full. It's all part of the illusion of ''more'' and wastes plastic. But then all of them pack it that way, no matter what the brand is. I think there should be more laws to use less plastic, we have reached the truly wasteful, ridiculous stage with it.

@kareng Yes, mam they do! In many cases, as we know, less is enough.

@MarieCoyle We got dinosaur fossils . . . some generation down the line is going to discover plastic jugs . Ugh, and think how many plastic laundry jugs are being / has been thrown out per day as it is . Right - Earth is fighting back !

It is said by many recycle centers that they are overwhelmed with the laundry soap jugs. The plastic is very thick as well, it takes about 1000 years for one to completely disintegrate if not recycled properly. Good grief, the things we do to our Earth. No wonder it's rebelling!

@much2say I looked it up, it's even worse than it was. US tosses out 900 million laundry jugs per year. Very few are recycled, as they are full of toxic chemicals and also are not often empty when tossed, which messes up the recycling equipment. And the award for complete throw away idiocy in the entire world goes to...drum roll...the US! We throw away over 38 BILLION water bottles every year. Over 2.5 million water bottles per day. Shame on us all.

@MarieCoyle We use the bar soap for kitchen and face towels that are washed every day

@allknowing I know in different countries, things are a bit different. All kinds work, and that's what matters!

I have never used a bar soap for any clothing, just hands. I use body wash in the shower, we have liquid soap dispensers for the kitchen and bathroom that can be refilled, for hand soap and sanitizer.

@MarieCoyle When I was a young girl everything was sold not packaged. Right now, food can only be sold packaged, but I also buy hand wash liquid soap refilling my bottles. I like my soaps because I also buy those who are gentle on the skin. I have read that those laundry sheets can clog the machines.

Back in the 70's-80's, our area had a lot of what they called Food Co-ops, you could take containers and fill things, everything from flour or sugar to laundry soap, etc. and it was to cut down on packaging, etc. It faded away, I think because people couldn't be bothered. I suppose they thought it was too much trouble, and also, since they dealt in foodstuffs, it was a liability with someone waiting to sue hovering in the background. But I love the idea of the soap refills, I wish we had that option. Most grocery stores have a water station that people who want to buy their drinking water can take their big jugs (purchased originally from them, of course) back, trade them for a new one for a small fee. I don't generally buy water, so I don't do that, but the option is there for those who do. I do really like my liquid laundry soap, and i know with all the allergies I have, it does not affect me. It would be hard to change unless I knew it would be good stuff.

@LadyDuck I've been using laundry pods for a long time, most of the time. Many people here do, They have not hurt the machine in any way. I am tired of the amount of plastic trash we dump that never gets recycled. Some of it, at least, could be eliminated, and we need more recycling places as well.

My son in law wants to try them, he is like me in that he is trying to eliminate the plastic jugs if we can find a type that actually works. My daughter is also allergic to a lot of soaps, just like her mama, so he says he will wait until he is sure there is a brand worth trying. Then I will see how it works for them. I am not adverse to trying new things, just careful.

@MarieCoyle ,i knew a friend really allergic to soaps,she only use washing powders.It make sense being careful to new stuffs.

@jefferson126 I just do not like powdered detergent in the washing machine. I never have, it seems to irritate my skin no matter what brand it is. That is why I have been using pods or liquid.

@MarieCoyle It would!!

Haha, that would be a neat trick. Time to wash your sheets, just dissolve them! But as we know, that would get a tad expensive!

I plan on a bit of experimenting with the product after I hear what my daughter and son in law try it, which they say they want to do. He loves to try out new products.

That's good to hear a positive about them. The plastic we create has to lessen somehow.

@MarieCoyle I think so too and they are very easy to just toss in

I think the pods are great. I also think I use less detergent with the pods than I ever did when I use just liquid.

@MarieCoyle I don't want my sheets to dissolve. I like them, and they cost me $200.

@TheHorse Yes, I would think that would get fairly pricey, to make your special sheets disappear!

You know, I bet that's it! Why didn't I think of that? The sheet is made of a product that dissolves, kind of like a dishwasher pod or a pod for a washer.

@MarieCoyle Yes, it would be helpful.

I have been hearing that a lot of people really like them. Also, if you have a small load, you can cut the sheet in half. I run several small loads now and then, so that would be helpful to me.

Jessica, I haven't tried them yet, either.

@MarieCoyle Laundry sanitizer is a good idea.

@LindaOHio i think that most, not all, germs usually wash out in a regular washer and a dryer cycle. The reason I actually got vigilant about using it was when Covid started. Both my own doctor and my son's doctor said to take every precaution as he would probably not survive Covid, and I may not either if I got hit hard with it. I still use it, at least for now.

Well, I am rather persnickety about laundry being clean, so I will do my homework on the product if I decide to try it. Since Covid, I have been using laundry sanitizer as well.

My machine doesn't seem to like powdered detergent, so there's that. My laundry room is dry so I don't really worry about extra moisture, but here that usually occurs in the summers if people don't have air conditioning on in really hot weather, the powder gets all clumpy and yukky. I suppose the sheets would as well, in the humidity and the heat.

I like to try new things sometimes. Especially if they work well, are affordable, and eco-friendly.