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by indolering 216 days ago
I am loving this level of petty nerd fighting over detergents! My co-workers thought I was joking when I told them I have HOURS of high quality dishwasher content on YouTube.

Claiming that a leading brand was being beaten by a random formula made by a contractor is a big red flag. They tend to dominate Consumer Reports testing and this is a trend across detergents and cosmetics: the big manufacturers have the money to do original research and the scale to do stuff bit players just can't. Pantene is hated in hair salons but blinded end-user tea ing shows that it outperforms everything else on the market, for example.

But it's also true that making a good enough soap for a given task isn't hard. Otherwise you wouldn't have so many damn cosmetic products out there. The delta just isn't that significant and plenty of people are fine with bar soap for everything. So I'm not surprised that the llama detergent scored well on some tests.

TC really should have partnered with a detergent scientist to check his experimental setup first.

Can't wait for the YouTube drama over something so petty as dishwasher detergent and the prewash!