Tide 2x Ultra With A Touch Of Downy Liquid Laundry Detergent, Clean Breeze, 50 fl oz

I love Tide with a touch of Downy lavender scent. It makes our clothes smell so good! My 7 yr old will not wear clothes washed in anything else. My mother washed some of my daughters clothes at her house thinking to help me out , but when we got home my daughter said "Mommy you have to wash these they don't smell right!" My mom uses Tide too just not the scent that I use. She uses Mountain Fresh Tide and my brother uses the unscented one!!! We're a whole family of Tide users!!!

Tide is the favorite at my house. Several years ago, I bought another product on sale and my husband knew immediately. He said his clothes did not smell clean enough. I had to agree that the wash seemed, well, unwashed. I love Tide and Downy and having the two products together is a match made in wash day heaven. I love all of the scents but the traditional April Fresh is my favorite. Even the dirty laundry smells fresh at my house.

I adore this product Tide with the fabric softner in it, because it is double tough on stains, yet gentle on your clothes with a wonderful soft feel, and scent that not only help your clothes but when used like I use it, it's your house poupourri too. I Love it so much I had a fear that it would be taken off the market because usually when I fall in Love with a product without a doubt it's soon off the market and I don't know what I'd do then.

I loved the original liquid Tide With a Touch of Downy April Fresh scent. It left a lot of fragrance in the clothes - a fragrance that I really liked. Since being re-formulated with Acti-Lift, the fragrance is not the same. Both the April Fresh and Lavender varieties have an off-odor. You can smell it from the bottle and in the clothes. Clothes do not have the lingering and intense fragrance that they did with the old version. I don't know whether Acti-Lift improves cleaning performance or not, but it sure doesn't improve the fragrance! Am I the only one that has noticed this? I plan to go back to the powder version since I think that has not been re-formulated. P&G insists on fooling around with trusted formulas to maintain product marketing freshness but they ultimately lose a lot of loyal customers.

Perhaps this would be a useful product for a non-HE machine that doesn't have its own softener cup, but any HE machine I am aware of has a softener cup built in and there's no need for the restrictive nature of this product. Furthermore, any towels or microfiber used for automobile purposes should never have softener added (along with an increasing amount of clothing). Take the top-rated Coldwater HE Free or Tide HE Free and Sensitive and add your favorite scent of Downy or Downy Free, if you must. The performance of the product is a 5, but the unnecessary aspect of the product is why I rated it a 3.