Miele WA UC 1803 P UltraColor Powder Laundry Detergent for Color and Black Clothes Garments

This is an absolutely fantastic detergent. But, you pay for it. According to the Miele website it has seven different enzymes (German persil powder has five. American Tide/Gain has three.). Does it clean any better than your average detergent when you add a booster like Febu, no. But, it's an all-in-one solution. If you need a single detergent that is enzyme heavy and lacks optical brighteners, this is the one for you. I don't use it for all my laundry. I save it exclusively for my darks.... Just beware that it's super concentrated and the enzymes need time to work. It's manufactured specifically for front-load machines and won't work as well in top loaders because it needs 20 to 30 minutes in the wash cycle of at least 90° f for the enzyme action to be effective.

When we bought our Miele machines 10 years ago, we started using their detergent and never looked back since. Well worth the price. No more lingering smells, harsh detergent, or skin irritation.

Lo use durante años. Me gustaria seguir comprandolo. Cuando lo tienen otra vez

Works amazingly well and lasts for a good 6 months. I’m using a miele washer and have neutral water (not soft, not hard)

Isn't it awesome to pull clean, soft, fresh smelling clothes from the dryer? Get this detergent and you will, even with hard water. I have dated extensively within the laundry detergent community. Was monogamous with Charlie for several years until I ended up with stiff clothes (possibly my fault for not getting the hard water additive sooner - Charlie was awesome for a couple years). I was also exclusively with an Italian for a few years - Spuma D. - and it was sooooooo awesome - formulated for hard water and worked beautifully, although you would need to appreciate the fragrance, which I did, but you may not. But it became more and more difficult to find Spuma without making a U-Haul trip to a major shipping center on a coast and/or paying out the wazoo on shipping. Tried the much-lauded Sears detergent and not impressed. Tried making my own with hard water-mitigating additives and realized I could be making trips to Italy for Spuma for what I was spending to get specific chemicals shipped to my house (and why is citric acid so expensive?!). Anyway, I don't like the smell of Tide, however un-American that makes me, and once I got a good Samsung front loader, I realized liquid All wasn't rinsing and it wasn't just the top load machine failing, it was the All never leaving the fabrics regardless of machine. I also did some speed dating with Ariel with phosphates (can we just agree that the entire nation doing phosphate-d laundry is a drop in the pond compared to the industry and agricultural phosphate run-off? I want clean streams, but if we all use more resources trying to get clothes, dishes, and homes clean just because detergents have lost their primary effective ingredient, all while other industries dump even more phosphates, then what did we accomplish?). The Mexican Ariel merely coated my machine and made everything funky. I'm not sure it had enough or the right kind of phosphates and my Spanish for chemicals is rather poor. But Miele - this is the real deal. I promise you that. You don't have to use much - it lasts a long time. I smoked until a year or so ago, and the Miele was tremendous about getting the smoke odor out when I smoked and now that I haven't for some time, I have clothes that don't smell in the least of smoke. I wouldn't even mention that, but the last time I quit smoking it took forever to get the smoke odor from my clothes (used Surf back then, many years ago). American Persil produced the inexplicable vomit odor in my clothes, so I had an expensive breakup with it after stockpiling multiple bottles and using it successfully for a while. I still don't have a valid reason for why that odor happened, but it did and was no fun to discover or try to treat. The hard water versus clean laundry is an issue that can usually be mitigated with Euro-developed detergents (or more obviously, a water softener, which has not been practical for me). I did a metric tonne of research on detergents and hard water and found valid scientific research pointing to specific ingredients as well as user experiences which helped direct me to Miele. We've been happy together for several years. I don't use fabric softener because it does evil things to your fabrics, but more importantly, you don't need it with Miele, because it rinses clean in my front loader, which inherently leaves your clothes soft. If I want fragrance, I will add a Caldera dryer sheet instead (which also coats your fabrics, as anyone who has never been able to dry off with a fabric softened bath sheet will tell you). Also, I live in the desert and sweat like a mobster in church, so it's important that my laundry detergent gets allllllll the funk out, and Miele does, every time. My washer tends to like smaller loads (like the size of two standard pillows, stacked) and I use a half-scoop of detergent or if I worked in the yard in July, 3/4 of a scoop. In the winter, I have actually forgotten a washed load for up to five days and gone back to find it just fine; in summer, not so much. FYI - if you're coming from another detergent, run several empty loads with a descaler/salts to clean the old detergent residue from your machine. You may want to do this anyway (I do every two weeks or so), but if you switch detergents and fail to scrape the hidden scum from your machine, you will likely be disappointed. Use super hot water to do this, and if you have a top loader and have never cleaned it, be prepared to be horrified/fascinated/horrified. I will also be happy to recommend Miele products for washing your dishes. I purchased a Miele dishwasher and had good results with Cascade, but absolutely BRILLIANT results (I.e. no re-washing on that plate that had eggs over easy four days ago and never got rinsed) with Miele tabs, salt, and rinse aid. And yeah, the Miele rinse aid did better than Jet Dry, although I don't know why, but it earned the mark-up in price. Anyway, long live this formulation of Miele, and may they never, never change it!