along with water or a washing fluid 62 and items of laundry 64 kinetic energy is transmitted to unattached device 50 by the interaction of agitator 18 water 62 items of laundry 64 and device 50 in the presence of conventional agitation washing action device 50 generates electric charge and transmits it directly to the immediate vicinity of the cleaning work being done by the kinetic energy where the electric energy does work of modifying the physical properties of water to increase the naturally occurring detergency properties of water as described in the above theoretical basis section alternatively device 50 may be hand held as shown in fig4 e to be used as a scrubbing device for such diverse cleaning tasks as spot removal bathing and shampooless hair cleaning fig4 a illustrates the general appearance of a third embodiment of a device constructed to be used in accordance with the invention device 50 is formed with a large plurality of elongate floppy elastomeric filaments 10 each of which as is clearly evident in fig4 b has cross sectional dimensions of the loose ends 58 of filaments 10 which are extremely small in relation to the length of the filament as will be more fully explained shortly these filaments are joined in a central core region in such a manner that they radiate outwardly in a fairly uniform dense and bushy fashion in multiple angularly offset planes to.