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by Cpoll 220 days ago
> They chose 20 g of Cascade Complete Powder and 20 g of EcoGeek / Green Llama’s detergent. While I do not own the standard, I found some documentation to suggest that this is non-compliant with the relevant ASTM testing standards...

This is damning if true, isn't it? Especially given the conflict of interests. It reminds me of non-independent software benchmarks.

Although, to be charitable, if they were skewing the results on purpose, they could have just omitted the amounts altogether.

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The rest of that section is super informative too as cascade contains fillers to make dosing easier.

EcoGeek instructs to use 15 grams which costs $0.65 per load. The 20g used is 133% this amount.

Cascade instructs to fill your dishwasher compartment which is about 71 grams and costs $0.23 per load. The 20g used is only 23% this amount.