Earthborn Elements Borax Powder (5 Gallons), Multipurpose Cleaner & Detergent Booster, Resealable Tub

If you haven't used Borax before and you have: dingy used-to-be white clothing, stuck-on greasy cookware and cooktops, and kitchen floors that have worked-in grime, try borax. It is truly amazing. My only complaint is you do have to dissolve fully in very hot (boiling) water, otherwise it will dry in a big hard lump. I use it thusly: a scoopfull in white and towels laundry. It keeps it smelling fresh and brightens whites dissolve in hot water and use it to clean tile/grout and linoleum floors (I use a brush to work it in) work it into a paste with hot water to scrub oven doors, cooktops, and pans sprinkle in doorways, crevices, and windowsills as an insect repellant I like to have a bucket ready at all times. It is truly multi-purpose. Make sure to use gloves, it can be irritating to skin.

use this in laundry for towels and linens. Makes fabric smell nice without the chemical build up. good for the machine too.

Good quality. Works well. I use it in my HE top-load LG Washer. Keeps the tub clean and fresh, and cleans our clothes, even the greasy-grimey uniform clothes of both my auto-diesel mechanic, and automotive line technician in the family, without me having to run a clean cycle in between. And the bucket is reusable for all kinds of things that are not food.

Practical tub, just throw in a small measuring cup and pour it into washer.I got the unscented one because I don’t like scented clothing. Clothes comes out soft and clean.

I'm sure we've all been there: we start a load of laundry, life gets in the way, and later in the day you remember about the load in the washer. Washing those clothes by themselves will almost guarantee a moldy, mildewy smell to them that would require a re-wash to get rid of, if at all. That's where borax powder like Earthborn Elements can come in handy: a half cup added to your load helps kill off all that stuff to prevent your clothes getting smelly. And if you have things like towels that have accumulated rank odors over time, this helps get rid of that as well. You might think that these products are pretty much all the same. After all, borax comes out of the ground (essentially) and is powered. So what would be the difference between them? Well, first and foremost is packaging. I tried a farm animal branded borax to start with, and while the boxes were earth friendly, the borax tended to clump over time, which made it hard to pour. The Earthborn Elements bucket keeps out moisture, and I keep my scoop inside it so I always know where it is. I can only assume that some are scented because one of Amazon's review topics is "scent." Well, Earthborn Elements borax is completely unscented, which is a plus because I'm allergic to scents. There are two downsides to the Earthborn Elements borax, though. First is quality control: some of my previous batches were very finely crushed, which would usually dissolve better. My current batch isn't as finely crushed, but now that I think about it hasn't really led to issues. The instructions tell you to add the borax to the washer basin first, before your clothes; sometimes I forget to add it first, and the bigger pieces work fine either way. It's just kind of an innate reaction when batches are inconsistent that there's a QA problem. The other issue is value. I haven't priced out other options, but it's 30 bucks for a gallon, which seems high. Sure it lasts a while, but I feel like other brands with inferior packaging were cheaper. Either way, if you need help getting rid of smells and don't want to add perfumes, use borax, especially Earthborn Elements. It's the easiest to use. It doesn't affect colors or stain clothes, but I have noticed on occasions that the finer powder would stick to some of my wife's clothes, needing them to be rewashed. The coarser powder, not so much. So maybe that's a feature not a bug. On a side note, despite what countless websites might tell you, borax doesn't do jack to brighten white clothes. My boys have to wear white uniform shirts for clothes, and I've noticed no difference using borax vs. not or vs. using bleach. Not that bleach does much either. The only effective solution I found had obscene amounts of perfume so I stopped using that after one load with it.

Great product

Large container lasts long time

woks great to make Landry soap.