Seventh Generation Automatic Dishwasher Powder, Free & Clear, 75-Ounces Boxes, Case Pack, (Pack of 8)
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Customer Reviews of Seventh Generation Automatic Dishwasher Powder, Free & Clear, 75-Ounces Boxes, Case Pack, (Pack of 8)
Customer Review: Works great, eases my mind
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using Seventh Generation Automatic Dishwashing Powder for two years. Recently, I tried a big named brand offering a new "green" option, but it sometimes left my glasses greasy, the packaging wasn't 100% recycled and, by not saying that they don't, I assume that they test on animals.
Seventh Generations Powder dissolves completely and my dishes/glasses stay streak-free. Additionally, this product is not tested on animals and uses no animal byproducts. Not only is the product eco-friendly, but the packaging is 100% recycled paper and can be recycled at ends use.
According to the label, Seventh Generation Automatic Dishwashing Powder:
- is non-toxic
- has no chlorine bleach
- no phosphates*
- no dyes or artificial fragrances
- no EDTA**
- is safe for septic and grey water systems.
Make your purchases even greener by choose powder over liquid. Powder products offer more uses (typically for less money) while taking up less space meaning fewer delivery/shopping trips. Additionally, the paperboard is usually recycled and recyclable and is not a petroleum based product.
*phosphates - used to soften water, can cause algae blooms in lakes and ponds leading to suffocation of plants and animals
**EDTA doesn't breakdown during wastewater process. The strong metal chelating properties, even in low concentrations, can cause ecological unrest. Remember, wastewater is put into our rivers and lakes which is also where they get our drinking water.
Customer Review: as I hatch
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good product. Not that I'm an expert. However, you still need to pre-you're your dishes.
As I near the end of my laborious run of Couvade Syndrome, I find my tolerance for certain things diminishing, and I just need to express this: I don't care how good your dishwasher is and I don't care how good your detergent is. You still have rinse the chunks off the plate or you end up just cooking food on in the dishwasher.
Listen, I appreciate it when other people help with the dishes. But think about how the machine works a little. Get over your magical thinking. Placing dishes in the machine doesn't make them clean if there is still food stuck to them when you unload them. It is a miracle of modern life, but it is not science fiction. Just think about what you are doing and be a little observant, that's all I ask.
Just venting. I'm sorry you had to hear that. But this is a good product. I like that it's eco-friendly and all the rest of that. It's a soap box standing on its soap box. By the way, there is a breakfast sandwich from a little deli where I used to live. I can't remember the name of the sandwich or the deli. But it was a couple eggs over medium, cheese, bacon, then an almost paper thin slice of red onion and a garlic mayo all on a toasted Kaiser roll. I can't remember the name, but I want you to know I'm thinking of you, and I know you are thinking of me too.
That's all for now. Thank you for listening, bye bye.
Customer Review: Alright, but not for hard water
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had both good and bad experiences with Seventh Generation automatic dishwasher powder. I've used it for the past several months, up until we moved recently, and found it to be an okay eco-friendly and safe household cleaner- it got most of the dishes clean, but I would have to soak and scrub pots and pans as well as dishes with caked on/dried food before washing them, otherwise they would come out dirty. Also, dishes didn't come out with the same sparkle they had when I used Cascade.
We recently moved, and we have hard water at our new house. I followed the instructions on the box for hard water, including using a rinse aid, but it still left white streaks and hard water stains on all my glassware.
Overall, I found Seventh Generation Dishwasher Powder to be an okay/below average cleaner, and don't recommend it to anyone with even semi-hard water. I now use Ecover dishwasher tabs(they clean ALL the food off my dishes, AND leave them with that beautiful sparkle). To those of you who've had a bad experience with this dishwasher powder, I urge you to try at least one more eco-friendly dishwashing powder before switching back to a traditional one. These products vary in their effectiveness much like traditional ones, and this one just happens to be on the lower end of the spectrum.
Customer Review: Hard Water? No Problem.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a working mom with a 6-month-old baby, which means constant cleaning of bottles, pacifiers, toys, baby spoons, and highchair tray in addition to our regular dishes. We use Seventh Generation for a lot of our baby products, and Melaleuca for our cleaning products. It's so important to clean the items that you eat from with people-friendly products. We're complex biological creatures, and the ingredients around us absolutely make a difference to our health and wellbeing. We ran out of Melaleuca dishwasher detergent and quickly subbed with Seventh Gen, and I won't be switching back! We have ridiculously hard water in our house, and a crappy old dishwasher. Back when we used Cascade we would constantly have to run items again, and the bottles would come out smelling like milk. Yuck. The Seventh Gen left our dishes sparking and clean; I foolishly didn't read the hard water instructions the first time we used it, but amazingly, it was no problem for this product. I use it without a drying agent, and it's just fine. Even when my husband overloads the dishwasher, it works great. Granted, the price is a little high (ok a lot high), but with Amazn's subscribe and save, it's much more reasonably priced.Customer Review: Works decently, but exorbitantly priced
Summary: 1 Stars
This dishwashing powder works wonderfully for me; glasses and ceramics are astonishingly clean, although plastics often look cloudy. I would not get this type of detergent if you have a good deal of plastic cups or such, although I would reccomend not getting this particular brand under any circumstances. I believe the mineral content of the wash water has a gigantic effect; I had residue after a snow melt that induced lots of road runoff into the municipal water supply. However, this detergent is exorbitantly overpriced. The chemical composition of this dishwashing solution is of cheapo compounds: sodium carbonate and sodium silicate. As such deep discount grocery stores such as Aldi, and Walmart's store brand sell detergant with the same cleaning compounds that are just as 'green' for far less (2.50$ at any Aldi; most of their prices are set at the national level, and most likely under 3$ at most Walmarts), although their packaging does not greenwash the product as this does. Basically, you'll pay about three times the typical retail price for a picture of a leaf and clouds on a box of the cheapest detergent avaliable.