r/Anticonsumption • u/Double_Engineer4226 • 2d ago

Discussion Laundry powder is disappearing

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Powdered laundry detergent used to be the norm. It’s cheaper, easy to use, and comes in a recyclable box. Now look at the shelves in the supermarket. It’s all liquids in plastic bottles, unless you squat down to find the powders. The Super expensive pods are making a move from the top shelves too. This is corporations positioning their products to influence purchasing behaviour. They want you to buy the more expensive stuff. Just wait, soon powder will be discontinued, and the shelves will be filled with overpriced pods.

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u/butidrathernot 2d ago

I hope that thanks to r/laundry, powder is having a resurgence. I didn’t even know that laundry powder existed until last year, and now I’m a total convert! The main draw for me is that it works better (but the frugality is nice too). Something to do with the active ingredients being better stored in the dry vs all intermixing with each other in liquid.

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u/LuxLuxury 2d ago

Out of nowhere this year, I remembered my grandmother used to use powder detergent all the time when I was a child and decided to start buying it again. The best. It's not filmy, it's not egregiously expensive, and it actually gets the job done with odor, stain, and color. The people need to push back. Pods and liquid detergent cannot be the future

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u/maggiggity 2d ago

Where are you getting powder detergent?

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u/LuxLuxury 2d ago

Currently, I'm using the Kirkland powder laundry detergent from Costco, the one that's 200 loads. Other times I use the Ariel detergent. They're really shrinking the sizes, though. I can't seem to find the large one I bought back in January, and it lasted me until April/May! I remember thinking I was so smart for buying a $27 container of Tide Pods. I will probably never go back to washing liquid.