So my product is the new Ariel 3-in-1 pods. I received this lovely starter pack.
A full size box with 16 pods in it; a book of money off vouchers; a project handbook; feedback forms and, most importantly, 10 free samples for me to share, yay! It's marvellous.
I admit when I got it that I was like a kid at Christmas. I had received a parcel in the post, that means presents (in my head anyway). I opened the box to find another box, ooooh. I opened that box to find, you guessed it, ANOTHER BOX! Thankfully this was the outside of the Ariel box so I knew that the 'presents' would be inside. Ta-Dah! A big grin spread across my face, new stuff to try. This product is perfect to enhance my practice to become a minister's wife. You see, washing clothes is the one skill that I have. I have not (as yet) ever had clothes colours run in the wash, thus dying all the other clothes (I have accomplished this outside of the washing machine in the wet washing basket but that's a different story and skill). Nor have I ever shrunk clothes or stretched them - washing clothes is my forte.
So I start rooting around in the box and grab out my box of washing pods. I place the box proudly above the washing machine and dash upstairs, faster than a speeding snail. I grab armfuls of clothes, drop them and grab different clothes, drop them and stare. What clothes do I want to wash first? Do I wash the towels? The heavily stained jeans that the Raving Rev has been wearing whilst doing decorating and mud walks? My delicate clothes that are covered in baking stains (again, another story)? Which ones? Hmmm, I decide upon the towels followed by the Raving Rev's clothes. I grab armfuls of towels and dash downstairs (the dash was inadvertent as I kind of slipped and skidded a wee bit on the way down. Thankfully I stayed upright and just looked like a giant weeble teetering on the stairs).
I grab open the door to the washing machine and with manic glee start stuffing the towels into it. I grab the box and I swear, I must have looked like a crazy woman ripping open a box of chocolates, such was my excitement. I grabbed a pod and stared at it. They're very pretty. Green on the bottom with blue and white segments on the top, ooooh. I lob the pod into the machine, slam the door shut, select the wash and wait. Ok, sadly, I kind of stayed squatted in front of the washing machine for a while to see the tablet and what it would do. After the Raving Rev climbed past three times, he pointed out how sad I was being and I, reluctantly, left the washing machine and the pod to do their thing.
So results? I won't bore you with all the details of the washes but they're not bad. They didn't remove all the stains from the old tea towels but in the pods defence, these are extremely tough, ground in stains. They did remove all other stains from clothes well and, more impressively, brightened the clothes. I thought that perhaps it was me wanting the clothes to be brighter but the Raving Rev passed comment on it "What you added to make the towels brighter?" Result! Maybe they do do what they say on the tin haha. So now I have clean, bright, stain free clothes. Exactly what a minister's wife should have.
TTFN.
