How to get your dishwasher back (Make phosphate detergent) Vanity

Self | 2/13/2011 | self

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Check Lowes. That is where I got mine.

[Osage Orange]

The Weekly Standard had an article awhile back about this....

I was screaming out loud by the end of it..

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I need to post all of my thoughts in one post (this is third) but your remark about a clean dishwasher reminded me. My dishwasher was starting to leak underneath. I found the source and was mulling over whether or not to replace it myself, call a repairman or get a new dishwasher.

ANECDOTAL ONLY: It stopped leaking when I started adding the TSP. My appliance-repair-for-dummies-brain tells me maybe the water discharge tubing is rinsing cleaner as well. May or may not be true, but no more leaks.

[kaylar]

So far, so good : No discoloration of flatware, and at least there aren't any food particles adhering to them, either. It's mainly the lack of spots on glasses, mugs, and dishes that I've noticed, though.

I believe I will try the STPP, as it DOES sound a bit safer.

[kaylar]

I noticed an immediate drop in the staying power of Yves Rocher when they went to all-natural ingredients , citing the environment, back in 1999/2000. Then I noticed that other fragrance lines seemed way weaker, when I tried new products introduced in the latter part of the last decade. The two newest Avon/MARK fragrances are completely vanished in less than one minute-they are weaker than any "body spray" I've ever encountered. And other MARK products were of almost 1980s strength (a not unmixed blessing! :-D)

I am just speculating that an attempt to please moslem customers/be completely lazy is what's really behind it, though . I noticed that a non alcohol version of a Jovan fragrance with which I was quite familiar smelled different, ie worse, and was way weaker than the standard edition. This makes me wonder if maybe other companies are removing the alcohol from fragrances , and pretending it's an environmental decision when it's really to make it easier for them, by creating all fragrances to accord with moslem halal standards, rather than making separate bottles for different world regions. It wouldn't surprise me if that's the case, as some restaurants (UK and USA) have been quietly switching to halal meats everywhere, instead of just in locations in mostly moslem neighborhoods. Easier and cheaper for them.

[Osage Orange]

PS - don’t tell the enviro-idiots about phosphorous in our fertilizer.

They already know about it.....

Chicken manure is loaded with phosphorous...Hummmmmm, maybe I should add chicken crap to my dish soap?????

LOL

[Osage Orange]

Red Dawn...prolly work better!! : )

[Texas Fossil]

CLR substitute

Use with caution, but Muratic Acid (from hardware stores) will do the job. It is extremely dangerous so don't spill it on something you don't intend to. And don't mix it with other chemicals. It will destroy the lime....

[Mears]

I had stopped wearing any cologne for a while,for no particular reason.

I received a gift certificate last fall and bought my old favorite L’Air du Temps,which I had worn for about 15 years.

I spent about $70.00 on this purchase and what a waste of money. Once,to test my sanity,I sprained quite a bit on my wrist. Five minutes later——nothing,no scent all.

That’s it for me.

[kaylar]

I know the thought of buying other people's used cosmetics online sounds disgusting to a lot of people , but I've been buying vintage and/or no longer manufactured fragrances online for years. To date, I've had no mishaps (bottles broken in transit, fragrances that have "turned" in the bottle or don't smell as I remembered, suggesting the possibility of fraudulent sellers decanting cheap stuff into collectible empty bottles, etc.)

I've bought from etsy, google shopping, bonanzle, and ebay. A quick search on ebay pulls up 755 results for L'air du temps.(I pulled up over 3000 results with google shopping.) Some state it's the vintage version in the auction title. It looks as if that fragrance's bottle has been changed through the years, so a shopper could tell from the jpegs on each auction roughly what time frame it's from (eg, a 1980s or 1990s, or a new bottle).

Anyhow, that's just a possibility, and if any of you try this route, I hope you have as much success as I've had through the last 12 years of online shopping for second hand fragrances.

[Mears]

Thank you so much for that information-—I’ll give it a shot.

L’Air du Temps was the best ever.

These changes are sad.

[GOPJ]

If you find a CLR substitute let me know - thanks.

[Palladin]

That’s a great idea!

I wonder if I can find an old bottle of Sortilege somewhere.

[Palladin]

A very interesting post. They can produce the perfumes more cheaply, while charging us more for them.

I think I’ll try my luck on E-Bay with some vintage fragrances.

[kaylar]

I found 41 on ebay alone: Looks like there's the original, vintage fragrance from Le Galion, and it looks like there's a recreated version from the House of Long Lost perfumes, as well as from Vermont country store.

Happy hunting!

[kaylar]

I never tried it, but I thought it had the most interesting bottle-LOVE the little doves!

[GoldwaterChick]

That happened to me years ago. I wrote to the company and they sent me another bottle to replace it. No doubt you’ve thrown yours out. I really loved that fragrance. A friend of mine in Ohio—who introduced me to it—said she isn’t having any problems with it, so I need to investigate a bit further.

[dead]

I’m joining the chorus of people who used TSP to solve their dishwasher problems. Got it in a NJ Home Depot last week. Now I add a teaspoon to each load and it’s all sparkling.

[GoldwaterChick]

Hadn’t heard about vintage perfume before this thread. I will definitely check it out. Thank you!

[Mears]

I still have the bottle,but the box with pertinent info is long gone.

C’est la vie.