Road Test: Fancy Laundry Detergent

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Can high-end laundry detergent make washing your clothes feel less like of a chore? I took $21.50 glass bottles to the laundry room to investigate.

I'll admit it -- when I first laid eyes on the Good Home Co.'s Line Dried detergent, I thought it was a bottle of something expensive and delicious -- something to drizzle over food or sip delicately. When I learned that the glass bottle housed laundry bubbles I nearly choked on my coffee.

I'm a no-frills kind of girl when it comes to my laundry rituals. Those intensely orange plastic jugs suit me just fine. However, there is something enticing about detergent that's 100% vegan and cruelty-free, one that "captures the refreshing and natural beauty of clothing dried outdoors." Living in a small apartment with no outdoor space, there's not much of an opportunity to air dry clothes, so I might as well take the opportunity to smell like I have a country house.



Off I went to the laundry room, glass bottles in tow. I figured I'd get a few stares, but lucky for me, the only other people there were three men transfixed by Game three of the NBA Playoffs ... perhaps I would go unnoticed.

Not likely.


"Why are you bringing liquor into the laundry room?" asked one older gentleman. Flustered, I fibbed: "I'm trying it out for my mom!" (The laundry detergent, that is.) Later, when I asked a woman if she would use the product, she commented that it looked a little bit pricey for her, and I suddenly felt self-conscious. At $21.50 a bottle, it's a little pricey for me, too. If I had that kind of cash to drop on laundry, I'd send mine out to be washed, dried and folded while I sipped something else out of a glass bottle in the privacy of my own home.

The result? My clothes still had that slightly starchy feel that only comes from HE machines, but did smell a shade more lemon-y than usual. Refreshing, yes. But you still won't find me poppin' bottles while doing laundry again -- unless I'm handwashing my clothes in the Tuscan countryside.

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