Best Laundry Detergent
When you are comparing brands of any product, how to determine which is the "best" of the variety you have can be tough. That is certainly the truth when it comes to laundry detergent. But if you go into any grocery store, the aisle with laundry detergents on them can go on and on with literally dozens of alternatives at your disposal. So narrowing down which one is best for you can be a challenge.
It would be nice if there was some objective body that just tested all the laundry detergents and told you point blank which one is the best. There are some evaluation services that do test laundry detergents to see if they live up to their claims. Now nobody can test if a detergent that claims in their commercials that if you use the detergent, your family will love you more. But they can test to see if they live up to objective claims like their ability to deliver more for less detergent or whether they really are an environmental product if that is what they claim to be.
It is easy to see that there are a lot of personal values that enter into even evaluating which laundry detergent is best. For you, it might be price. If it is, you can figure out pretty fast with a hand held calculator which detergent is the least expensive. But there is a hidden cost to buying only low cost products like this. If the detergent does not clean your clothes well or if the ingredients are harsh so they do bad things to your clothing or to your washing machine, that is a bad trade off for a cheap price.
Brand loyalty seems to be a driving factor in laundry detergent choices. You might always pick Tide or Cheer simply because that is the kind your mom used and you assume that if she picked it, it must be best. There is nothing wrong with using those products. Millions of people use them and do just fine and if that makes you feel more connected with family or if it satisfies someone in the family who is very "opinionated" about the subject, it might be best just to buy that brand knowing it will be a good choice and no harm is done keeping everyone happy.
It really is a matter of what your primary criteria for judging a laundry detergent is. You may want a laundry detergent that is environmentally conscious or you may need a detergent that is hypoallergenic or one that you can use that will not upset your baby's skin. You may need a high efficiency detergent because you have a front end washer or maybe using a concentrated detergent fits your needs. Whatever you feel is the most important value in a detergent is, then that will be your standard to judge all detergents by. And because there are a lot of detergents on the market, you are sure to find one you will become loyal to and that will then be the best detergent for you.