It also performed better than any other detergent on carbon, but we didn’t count the results from that stain in making our pick because we don’t think it’s as meaningful as the others.

We asked the company what the other 3% was, and it told us, “The 3% in our formulation is our preservatives… We spend an enormous amount of time in this building trying to find a plant-based preservative, but at this time our preservative is petroleum-based. The water-resistant, breathable, stretchy fabric makes it ideal for cold weather activities from fall to winter. Sarah Bogdan has tested 57 laundry detergents in her career thus far, previously for Good Housekeeping and now for Wirecutter. Just keep in mind that, as Dunnick told us, there’s no industry standard definition of “hypoallergenic. In the past, the EPA studied several of these compounds (PDF) and concluded that they are unlikely to build up and persist in the air and soil.

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Note that all of the detergents (except Tide Heavy Duty, which we were unable to test against our homemade stains) removed most of the spaghetti sauce and mud stains. If you’ve heard you should avoid petroleum-based detergents because they also stick to diapers, don’t believe it.A less expensive detergent is going to have a harder time cleaning certain stains and may not clean them at all,” he said. They’re known as MI and MCI, respectively, and are used as preservatives in a lot of cleaning and beauty products. As Katie Jennings, a formulation scientist at Seventh Generation, told us, “None of those terms have definitions in the industry.