oxy detergents

so, it seems to me, off the lazy top of my head, that the move to oxy type cleaners is a good thing for the environment. lower phosphates, less chlorine. is this correct?

Long time no see!

Edit they are because they contain no optical brightners, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_brightener

It is supposed to be tough on elastic however...

strangely, that does not include hanging around du day in and day out.

i just kinda was wondering what other stuff was in them. like, do they have more or less phosphates? i like them myself, they seem to work well. i saw the new oxyball gizmo the other day, is what got me wondering. just the simple physical volume is so much smaller. i figured it might be good. chlorine is hard on your clothes, anyway. i wonder how much is ending up in the environment just so some poor women don't have to feel guilty for their husbands grey socks.

Sodium Per-carbonate or Sodium Peroxybicarbonate. Oddly enough it does its job the same way chlorine bleach does, by oxidizing stuff. That's why you see that stuff working so well with wine stains, food stains, and that sort of stuff, those things are organic when you combine and oxidizer with an organic the oxidizer degrades the organic stuff. The nice thing about the stuff that it doesn't have all than toxic and corrosive chlorine in it. Chlorine can be a bad actor, bad for you, bad for clothing and bad for the environment. Even I use bleach very, very sparingly with my laundry. I really don't like the stuff.