Comments on: Biological detergents not guilty? “Biological enzymes do not cause skin irritation”.

By: Don Prohel

Don Prohel — Fri, 06 May 2011 11:45:47 +0000

It is quite curious that this seems to be a British myth: I have never heard of allergy problems with biological detergents before (I am not British).

Honeslty speaking, I have never heard of “bio” detergents before: in the rest of Europe, “bio” is used for organic food and the same detergents that here can be bought in the “bio” and “non-bio” version, in the rest of Europe are sold in the “bio” version only, without writing “bio” or “contains enzymes” on the box.

By: crispy

crispy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:36:06 +0000

My daughter had suffered from skin allergies when we returned to the UK from the USA. We found that we couldn’t use persil of any type and aeril non bio worked great for a long time(hadnt really tried other brands as we uhit lucky with aerial on the 2nd attempt). Over several years we gradually switched to aerial bio. All was well until March 2010 when she had a major flare up of eczema. It was around the the same time the turn to 30 degrees was in the supermarket so I guess they had changed the formula; we are now back to aerial non bio which is getting extremely hard to find. We had a Dyson which rinsed twice every time and we usually applied the extra rinse aswell.
If we have to change brands I will post again

By: Washerhelp

Washerhelp — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:35:37 +0000

Hello R Angus. I’m not aware of any change but presumably they change it all the time and we don’t usually notice.

By: R Angus

R Angus — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:36:40 +0000

many years ago, my midriff and crutch were raw, directly related to Bio-detergent. I now have skin pain in the same area. Strangely there is no rash. As an old Highlander my clothing shields very sensitiv skin.
Have the manufacturers introduced anything new inthe past three months?

An old lady, Cambridge MD, (related to Nobel winner, brother Professor medicine) said to me that she was worried that Bio’s were causing so much reproductive damage that the could wipe us out.

By: WMUser

WMUser — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:49:12 +0000

I personally don’t think it’s down to the bio/non-bio issue or laundry detergent chemicals alone. If washing machines rinsed properly, I don’t think people would be suffering skin allergies. It’s easy to blame just the detergent brand and its ingredients, but if it wasn’t left in your clothes in the first place there wouldn’t be a problem. Would you come out of the shower without rinsing away the soap/shower gel/shampoo properly?

If anyone reading these comments is having skin problems, I recommend you read the page “Why can’t modern washing machines rinse properly?”

http://www.whitegoodshelp.co.uk/wordpress/why-cant-modern-washing-machines-rinse-properly/

There are plenty of tips on that page on how to force modern “water saving” washing machines to rinse better. I hope following the rinsing advice alleviates the skin complaints.

All the best. :)