In the realm of home care and personal grooming, products that effortlessly enhance how you feel are a true gem. Distinctive Wash, has matching fragrance products to their luxury washing powders. It’s the epitome of luxury, to have your clothes smelling like designer fragrance straight from the wash and what better way of boosting scent where you want it than using a fabric and room spray to boost scent as you iron and to deodorise…
bio VS non bio detergent It seems as though everyone is confused. So let’s get straight to the facts. Non bio is a detergent mixture that doesn’t contain any enzyme content. Non bio detergent formulas typically need hotter water and stronger chemicals to wash well and contain a blend of ingredients designed to do different things in the wash such as optical brighteners and bleaching ingredients to help lift the dirt and stains. A bio…
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had less laundry chores and your clothing stayed smelling fresher for longer? Today, everybody is looking for clever ways to save time, money, and go green. Laundry might not be the obvious place where you can achieve big savings, let’s look at how people are achieving this every day with their laundry. Most brands now have products designed to keep clothes smelling amazing for longer, so your first step…
Well the answer is most definitely yes. You can wash your Christmas jumper in the washing machine! But no matter whether your jumper is made from wool, or man-made fibres, never be tempted to tumble dry. Before washing any Christmas jumper, make sure you’ve removed the battery and lights, if you opted for one of these new fancy flashing ones. If a jumper has lots of pom pots or sequins then it also would be…
Less is more when it comes to an elegant home Most of us have too many ornaments and accessories, bottles in the bathroom, and a gluttony of laundry products in the utility. De-cluttering and cutting right back on visible items, makes a huge difference to the overall feeling in your home? Give it a try and sweep round the bathroom first, so that there is only one soap, one shampoo, and one conditioner visible. Nothing…
Laundry is simply a part of life. While this chore might not be your favourite part of your week, it’s essential. So a carefully laid out laundry room, (no matter the size) can make washing, drying, and folding a simpler task. Plus a well-designed laundry room allows you to complete these tasks more efficiently–all in a space that you love being in. Follow these tips to re-design your laundry room into a functional space that showcases…
It’s a nice distraction, under current virus conditions, to think of more trivial day to day laundry probs and apart from everyone’s mounting laundry baskets, the biggest laundry woe at the moment, (more often in the city than the country) is Moth activity. So if you are contemplating a few weeks of self isolating this could be a clearing and sorting activity to keep you busy. Spring sees insect life re-emerge, and the dark corner…
Sweating is uncomfortable. And when it is this hot, whatever clothes you wear are likely to be feeling grubby and sticky within just a few hours of putting them on. So if you don’t work in a building with air conditioning. Or have somewhere to change and shower part way through the day, what can you do to feel fresh and prevent those nasty armpit sweat stains from ruining your clothes? Well understanding that isn’t…
Are you considering renting a property or a room, via Airbnb or another platform? There are a growing number of people who are buying property to let for holiday use or converting spare rooms to guest bedrooms. After all, if you have rooms that are sitting empty why not generate an alternative revenue stream if you can. However, most of us have little or no experience of running a guest house or b&b. So, whether…
Washing powder is a powdered form of soap designed specifically for the purpose of cleaning fabric. Well that sounds obvious doesnt it, and easy to understand. The term washing powder is universally applied to powdered detergent. Like a liquid detergent, powdered detergent is added to water for the purpose of cleaning the fabrics. These days thankfully most washing takes place in a washing machine though in some parts of the world it is still common…
Best practice for laundry and getting great results from your washing machine. Newcomers to laundry, (and this refers to both sexes) tend to like to throw everything in together and tend to think ‘more is better’ in terms of ‘over filling’ the washing machine jammed full of clothing. And, also using ‘more detergent’ than necessary if washing a big load. This blog will hopefully explain why it is not a great idea to do the…
Best Masculine detergent is Distinctive washing powder. But don’t just take our word for it. After being benchmarked as the fragrance to be beaten in laundry, by leading French fragrance house Givaudan, we think Distinctive masculine detergent is still the best scent in laundry. It is a laundry detergent that smells like an expensive cologne or aftershave and wouldnt be out of place alongside designer brands as a fragrance. We get a lot of feedback…
So, what difference does hard or soft water make for laundry? Well it does make quite a difference, and its why laundry detergents all have the dosing on the back of the packs as a table, to indicate the amount of detergent needed for hard, medium and soft water. You can end up using as much as a third more detergent to get the same wash results if you live in a hard water area…
Your washing machine and bacteria; what do they have in common? Oxygen, Moisture and Warm Temperatures – the perfect nesting ground for bacteria to multiply. In just 7 hours one bacterium can multiply to produce 2,097,152 bacteria. As well as this, your washing machine endures the residues of the gunk and calcium deposits that remains below the drum level and eventually transfers through to the drain hose filter where it collects remaining stagnant until you…
Distinctive washing powder launched the worlds first ‘Detergent For Men,’ Distinctive washing powder for men at the end of 2011. In 2011 the gap in the detergent aisle became no more. For the first time ever there was now a choice, away from traditional female scents and baby cute packages designed for mums and babies. Distinctive washing powder launched the worlds first masculine smelling product for the laundry aisle. However, whilst the initial customers were…
Technical Laundry experts and fabric care professionals do not like Fabric Softeners, but consumers have traditionally bought separate washing powders and fabric softeners for washing. As an industry the combined value in the US alone is around $11 billion dollars. so it is no wonder that manufacturers and retailers want customers to keep buying. Hopefully this piece will provide information for you to make your own mind up about whether you should use a fabric…
The difference between a biological and a non-biological detergent! Biological Detergent Biological means the washing powder formula uses enzymes as a way of achieving a really deep down clean. This almost certainly means that you can wash at lower temperatures and with less water to achieve a really deep down clean. Different enzymes are suitable for different applications and fabrics. Lipase enzyme, for example, being more suitable as a degreaser, and protease for attacking protein…
It isn’t only men that can’t stand the floral fragrance choices, on offer in the supermarket Laundry aisle! Ever thought before that you’d like a masculine detergent? A Laundry detergent that smells less flowery and feminine? Or perhaps you’ve just always loved masculine scents? Like the idea that your laundry could smell like an expensive designer aftershave? Well, it seems that both women and men covet masculine fragrances. With many women these days wearing a…
We inhabit a magical world of intoxicating fragrance fuelled with scensational seductions. At any time of the day we are enveloped in a fragrant cloud, stimulating feelings, long lost memories, arousing passion and changing the way we react.
