Tide To Go(R) Review
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Stained shirt, post-testing.
Synopsis:
- It’s worth carrying around for $4. Although it’s not a washing machine in your pocket, it could just save your dignity after squirting mustard on your collar the day your photo’s being taken.
Quick Details (of the testing):
- I broke out an old shirt, perfect for such testing, and dug around my fridge for some nice staining liquids. What I decided to use for these tests were tea, mustard, barbecue sauce, and soy sauce. Not in my fridge, however, I also cracked open an ink pen to test the Tide pen against ink despite what the package said.
The picturesque details:
- Really, the testing wasn’t that complicated. It was getting around to writing this that took forever… Sorry about the delay! Anyways, I would put a stain on, wipe as much away as I could, then stab the stain in the heart, releasing the pen’s cleaning agent. Using it like a marker and hoping the results of an eraser, I’d rub it in for around 10-45 seconds. I thought that would be a reasonable amount of time for someone to be stabbing their shirt with a mysterious marker before people started to look at them strangely. The center of the stain in the pictures was treated and the outside left untreated. Hope I was helpful!
My employees for the job...
Tea. Pretty good.
Mustard. Ewww. But ok.
Barbecue sauce. Not great.
Soy sauce. Pretty decent.
Ink. Who knew it'd get worse?
Yep, you’ve probably seen the commercials for them. And yes, they seem cool, that is, if they actually work. And if they do, how well? Honestly, have you ever seen anyone using one? Anyways, I seek to prove the practical usability on the stains they claim it works on, and even the ones they claim it doesn’t! It’s meager list of things it specifically says it doesn’t work on are ink, blood, and grease. Who knew it would be my top three shirt-killers? None the less, a review with lots of pretty photos is up soon!