The best low sudsing laundry detergents

After undergoing many long washing sessions, or even after washing a couple of loads, you might notice your clothes are not really as clean as they should be, or some stains basically remain as if untouched. There are several things that can cause this, but the most basic of the main ones is suds. For some washers having too many suds is no problem for the most part, but for the new high-efficiency technology washers, too many suds appearing when washing any type of clothes can leave the clothes looking and feeling not properly washed. 

What’s the actual meaning of this? Well, in a nutshell, suds are the foam caused by the reacting soap, a great quantity of this byproduct can cause all of the clothes in any given load to avoid rubbing against each other, which is the engineering factor that makes washing machines work in the first place, as is generally thought. This can easily become a rather bigger problem if you have a high efficiency washer, which sensors will detect the current levels of water and suds, reference these to the programmed correct ones on its system and based on this information, trigger additional rinsing cycles that might be unnecessary and waste your precious water and time, and that might not even specifically fix the problem at hand any way, which is fairly significant. 



The excess of suds in the water can also cause, among other things, clogging of the ducts and machine malfunctions in the long term, moreover when it comes to high efficiency washers.  This clogging will trap and particularly start redepositing impurities -contained within the suds- back onto your clothes, while you are trying to actually get rid of them, being just one of many consequences of high amounts of sudsing. 

In order to actually avoid this, the first thing you could consider doing is to resort to use much less detergent for each wash load, as this will actually and definitely keep the suds under normal levels; despite that, you can also opt to switch to a low sudsing laundry detergents, the best brands are defined by their quality, concentration, added benefits -such as essence or no wrinkle technology- and because of these, some are even cleared from supermarket shells stock after stock, so consider this when buying particular brands such as Tide, Ajax, Green Works, among many other brands with products specifically designed for this task. 

The best type of low sudsing laundry detergents are those labeled as “high-efficient” or with its initials alone (HE) in the name. Look for this particular indicator when shopping for your next laundry detergent, these will not only be engineered for your specific washer but since they are much more concentrated, you will probably end up using much less than your current (soon to be former) detergent brand. 

As mentioned, these products offer great savings and many other commodities included with their low sudsing action, that will in turn care for your garments much better than any traditional detergent in the market will. For all these products it is recommended to follow the indicated dose prescribed by the manufacturer to obtain the best possible result with each wash cycle. 

Since these types of products are designed specifically for the modern washer market, and with the manufacturing of more and more high-efficiency front-loads or top-load washers, the detergent brands need to cater for the new technologies, since the agitation and low water levels used on these devices are prone to make traditional detergents to create more suds, and this in turn will hinder the machines functionality over time. 

With high efficiency cleaning products, these problems are almost non-existent since the detergents are created with a bigger concentration and therefore a smaller quantity of them will be needed per washing cycle. This creates the right amount, or a rather low amount, of sudsing saving you of the unnecessary cost to acquire more detergent, and much less product having to generally be used per washing load. It is a great practice to use these kind of low sudsing laundry detergents alone, without mixing with a different kind or brand of detergent, since the reaction may cause the high levels of sudsing to particularly reappear and thus hindering your efforts to minimize them by a fair amount, and more so, lower the impact on your clothes.

Another great alternative to low sudsing laundry detergents on the market that you may consider for your high efficiency washing machine are pre-dosed products, which are created with the right amount already packed in convenient amounts for you to use on each wash load, just toss one in with the clothes as you set up your washer and let them do all the dirty work for you. Take Tide Pods, for example. Their compact yet effective design is literally destined for you to just pop one rightly dosed package in with your dirty clothes and let it run its merry course, each pod has the necessary amount of product, typically portioned and partitioned expertly, for each load to be effectively cleaned through with one tiny but mighty application. 

Something worth mentioning even when it might be pretty obvious is to avoid using products not described or intended for high efficiency washers. As mentioned, these products cause high levels of sudsing when paired with the motions and agitation of a high efficiency washing drum, and in turn will affect the machine’s condition. On the other hand, the opposite condition can be surely applied, using high efficiency products on normal or traditional washing machines will save you in detergent cost in the long run, just make sure to use a lower amount than the one described in the package as this is advertised and measured according to high efficiency wash cycles.