Conference vmszoo::consumer

    Has anyone ever heard of a product called 'The Laundry Solution'?

    It is supposed to be an alternative to laundry detergent.

    It's a small platic ball containing ionized water that you
    put into your washer and leave there and then just wash your
    clothes normally (but without any detergent).  The literature
    claims that (and I'm typing this from the brochure) it emits a
    negative charge through the walls of the container into your
    laundry water.  This causes the water molecule cluster to
    disassociate, allowing much smaller individual water modecules
    to penetrate into the innermost part of the fabric.

    Elsewhere in the brochure it claims that it forces the dirt to
    leave the fabric because dirt is positively charged and it
    is negtively charged, creating an electronic release of dirt.

    You may still want to use bleach and/or spot/stain remover in the
    same way you would today, but you do not need detergent.  Also, for
    heavily soiled clothes, you may need to add borax.

    To me it, reads a lot like the AMWAY water softener product.

    It is distributed through a 'pyramid' marketing scheme.

    Anyone ever hear of it?
    bob

    
    	Probably sold by the same people who sell those "fuel line magnets"
    	that align the gasoline molecules flowing through the fuel lines
    	in your car to give you better gas mileage.
    

    If you care to perform the experiment, you would probably find that
    washing your clothes without normal detergent and without these
    "miracle balls" would have exactly the same effect as washing with the
    balls.  Water and agitation alone will take out a lot of dirt.
    
    
|    You may still want to use bleach and/or spot/stain remover in the
|    same way you would today, but you do not need detergent.  Also, for
|    heavily soiled clothes, you may need to add borax.
    
    Adding any of these things to the wash water, without the balls, will
    have the same effect on your clothes as with the balls.

I've seen these things advertised in catalogs.  I can't imagine how they might
work and I have seen no independent tests of them.

			Steve