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Cindy
April 6, 2009 at 8:16 pm

I have a three year old boy. Need I say more?

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Erica Ellis
April 6, 2009 at 12:54 pm

With a one year-old baby, you can just imagine what kind of stains we have around our house! In fact, I just found my NEW white Eddie Bauer no-wrinkle shirt with a huge tomato sauce stain on it thanks to her dinner last night! I’d love to try something new to get THAT out!

Your Bright ‘n White should be on its way soon!!

Spray ‘n Wash has a new product called Bright ‘n White.  I am a HUGE lover of bleach and I use it in every load of whites that I do.  I honestly own like 10 white shirts because I spill something on myself every day and like to be able to bleach out the evidence.  But bleach can be pretty tough on clothes.  And if you read the labels on most of your stuff you aren’t even supposed to use bleach.  Even on white shirts!

So I thought I would give a bleach alternative a try.  Maybe it would let me expand my wardrobe to a few different colors!  And Spray ‘n Wash offered to send me a bottle to review.

So I used it.  All 44 oz of it.  And here is what I think:

I LOVE the smell!  Nice a clean smelling without making me sneeze!  And I believe you have to like the way your laundry products smell.  So one point for them!

It has almost a fabric softener quality to it.  I was going to try using it without my regular drier sheets, but I forgot.  I am going to have to do that when I get to the store to get another bottle!  But my clothes were softer than usual.

As for the Bright ‘n White, most of my clothes didn’t get washed enough times to judge if it keeps things brighter and whiter, but since I bought new clothes while using it they sure did look that way.  And after three or four washes there wasn’t any noticable fading.  I will have to give you a follow up when I get through another bottle and my clothes have made a few more trips through the spin cycle.

It smells good, makes your clothes soft, and so far seems to keep it Bright ‘n White promise.  That is all fine and great, but for me to be brand loyal I have to LOVE something.  What made me actually willing to fork out my own money for a bottle is the stain removing ability.  Although it isn’t magical, it is pretty darn close.

We are HARD on clothes at my house.  I like to keep my clothes usable, but I am not going to forfeit LIVING in them to keep them that way.  The girls in my house (includeing me) have a tendency to spill.   And Spray ‘n Wash Bright ‘n White did an above average job of getting it all out.

The chocolate ice cream that made its way through the dryer not once, but twice without having the stain treated still had a stain after treating it with the Bright ‘n White.  But the greasy hamburger ‘juice’ that got on my new green shirt the first time I wore it (and sat there for 7 hours before I could get home to wash it) came out still looking new.  The strawberry stains that were on Toots white jumper for four days before I discovered it in the diaper bag vanished.  The stains, not the jumber.  Chocolate, blood, general dirt and everyday stuff all came out beautifully.  And that is a big deal in our house.

But don’t take my word for it.  Leave me a comment (with your email address) and tell me something about your stains!  Make sure you leave an email address and you will be entered to win a 44oz bottle of Spray ‘n Wash Bright n’ White to try for yourself.  I will be picking two winners on Wednesday, so you have until midnight on Tuesday April 7th to enter.

And you can head over to this site to enter to win  a laundry room makeover from Spray ‘n Wash.

I could go on an on about it.  It is one of the best apps I have seen.  It uses all of the features that make the Iphone/Ipod Touch great and is a great learning tool.  This video does a pretty great job of showing you how amazing it is:

See! I told you it was pretty amazing! And it is VERY handy while waiting in line at the grocery store to check out. Or in the doctors office when you finally get called back to a room, but then end up waiting there for another 30 minutes. Or when you just want to buy yourself a few minutes of peace and quiet! You get the idea! My kids loved it and yours will too! Unless they are teenagers. Then they won’t. Unless they think Rachel is cute.

This blog should be up and running soon with some handy info on this stuff: