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"  There&amp;#039;s an article in today&amp;#039;s Wall Street Journal that confirms what we&amp;#039;ve been saying all along, here at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute. When it comes to doing laundry, if a little detergent is good, a lot of detergent isn&amp;#039;t better. Check out one of our very first blogs on the subject from our own Home Care Product Analyst, Christina Peterson. Overdosing your detergent can leave residue and trap soil in your clothing and in your machine. And with today&amp;#039;s low-water using, suds-sensitive washers, that means a build-up where bacteria can grow and stale odors can linger. In our GHRI lab testing, we&amp;#039;ve even seen machines shut down from an excess of foam. If you own one of these machines, it&amp;#039;s essential to use the High Efficiency (HE) version of your detergent to also minimize suds. These detergents are formulated to work better in less water and are a must for high-efficiency washers.  With 2x and 3x concentrated detergents pretty much available from all brands, it&amp;#039;s more important than ever to measure and follow the label recommendations, instead of just pouring it in. One thing we definitely wish detergent manufacturers would do is make the cap markings more visible. I often have to hold them up to the light to even see the lines and numbers inside. Newer single dose sheets and packets certainly help with this problem, but are not as easy to adjust to the exact size of the load as liquids and powders are. An innovative solution just launching is Method&amp;#039;s new 8x Laundry Detergent with a pump dispenser. Interested in which laundry detergents have tested best in the Instiute evaluations? Check out the &amp;quot;green&amp;quot; laundry detergents that were tops in our evaluations, plus our VIP (Very Innovative Products) Award for Tide Total Care.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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