Attention athletes, farmers, and those with smelly jobs and hobbies— buy MamaSuds. It cleans great. But I was most impressed by the small amount needed to remove odors from clothes and towels, including a very dirty rag I discovered that sat on a boat for over a week, clothes worn after clearing algae from a lake for 3 hours, fishing and then cleaning the fish, giving our dog a bath, gardening, cleaning our chicken coop, spending time in a dairy cow barn, hiking mountains in 100-degree temps in Colorado, and from my son’s sports clothes, socks, and shoes that I thought were on the brink of not being saved! I live in Minnesota. My family spends 12 months a year working hard, and playing inside and outside. So we have dirty summer and winter clothes, shoes, linens, and boots. I had always bought commercial fragranced detergent because I thought it was the only way to clean our clothes because household detergents often weren’t strong enough. When I was diagnosed with severe skin allergies and temporal lobe epilepsy, it was determined seizures are triggered by certain chemicals and fragrances used in big box laundry detergents, and some of these ingredients cause eczema, itching, and hives. I needed to switch to natural products.
I make my own powdered soap, but sometimes like using liquid and found Mama Suds. I use them about equally. One great tip—if you like loads to smell differently depending on the items, or people in your household have different tastes, get unscented and add essential oils. I have used it as is, mixed 10 drops of lavender to a bedding load, and 10 drops of lemon to a cleaning products/shoes and socks load. All removed odors and came out just how I wanted. On tough stains I have added a little directly and it worked better than Shout. On one really dirty and smelly load, I doubled the amount used as a precaution and that worked just fine.
