subject: Agitation: How Our Ancestors Did It [print this page] There are many things we've been brought up to believe to be necessities that might not really be so in fact . Take the case of laundry detergents, for instance. How did all our ancient ancestors wash their cloths and linens, humble and coarse as they must've been, without the benefit of Tide or Downy?
Naturally it is fully important to wash our clothes, make no mistake about that! But do we actually need to use laundry detergent?
As it turns out, no. In fact , laundry detergent is a reasonably recent invention. And though soap has been around even longer, for the majority of human history people did laundry when they actually did do laundry using rocks. As in, agitation.
Agitation is perfectly fine for lightly stained clothing, such as those sweaty socks and tee shirts. It may seem phenomenal to our modern sensibilities, but independent tests conducted by consumers and investigative writers alike have revealed that for most of our clothing, simple agitation the kind now produced by the forces in a washing machine more than suffices. Naturally, tougher tasks like car grease will require detergent to even have a prayer of an opportunity to be clean.
Detergents are useful in such cases, but you'll still do without store-bought stuff by making your own. Yes, it is correct, and it's fairly simple to do. Any number of recipes exist on the internet; just do a simple keyword search for them. What they have in common is that you're going to save up to 10 times off pre-made store-bought detergents.
finally, there is always the option of using less detergent! Particularly when it comes to the new-fangled concentrated detergent being marketed nowadays. Again, unless we are talking about major stains, detergent is not even strictly obligatory so go ahead and cut back!
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