Oh hey, thanks for stopping by to read this. Just wanted to mention that I paid for these products myself and I wasn’t asked to write, nor was I compensated for this post in any way. Cloth diaper detergent is an important issue for me and I just wanted to share. All opinions are my own! 🙂
Washing cloth diapers can be a hot button issue, and choosing a cloth diaper detergent is a polarizing subject. I’ve been a loyal Tide user for 5 of my 5 1/2 years of cloth diapering and weathered the change to the Ultra formula and Tide with Actilift. So what made me break up with Tide? The recent scent change, which they denied to me but confirmed to others. I even tried opening the box to air it out but I just couldn’t do it. Sorry Tide, you had to go. I tried Gain but it wasn’t love. I’d heard a lot about Persil Pro Clean Power Pearls
I read a bunch of reviews of Persil laundry detergent
Persil ProClean is available exclusively at WalMart in the U.S. via Unilever. I’m not a fan of the store; I’m more of a Target (affiliate link) gal. (Below is what my husband says applies to me. No way, I love Target!)
My husband and kids love the place, so my husband brought home a bottle for me. It is a “pearl” format in a liquid type bottle, though they also have a liquid version, a sensitive formula liquid, and power caps that are suitable for standard and HE machines.
I tried the original scent, and I find that it is a pleasant, light scent, much more mild than even the old Tide scent. After washing & drying a light scent remains but it is not overwhelming. Best of all, my clothes (and my cloth diapers) are clean. A 75 load bottle was $17.97 (19 cents per ounce), the same price as a 102 load box of Tide Original powder (12.6 cents per ounce), making it considerably more expensive but still within my current budget.
I’ve also found that the pearls are mess free, not leaving dust and/or spilled bits like always seemed to happen with powder or liquids. Keep your eye on Coupons.com (affiliate link) for $3 printable coupons.
I won’t be going back to Tide (though I’d consider it if they changed the scent back)! Have you tried Persil?
Maria wants to live in a world where cloth diapers are the norm and moms can make parenting choices without judgement. When she’s not chasing her 18, 14 and 11-year old kids around, you might find her checking out the latest gadgets, organizing something (again) or exercising in the fresh air. 
I don’t know why all the dissing the TIDE smell, Tide now has more Calgon/Water Softener in it when I open up Tide that’s what I smell the smell of Calgon Water softener. Considering how Calgon has been taken out of the market in Canada in the last few months, where I live and we have Hard water I like the Calgon Smell and the cleaness of Tide. Persil passed free samples out in Costco- but Tide Ultra HE Powder is still cheaper especially when it is on coupon at Costco. I am sticking to Tide Ultra Powder for my cloth needs. Do agree that Tide is someone like Ariel- tried Ariel while vacationing Europe and the Caribbean works wonders on diapers too. I would never use Vezeer(worst German detergent out there/discolours colours.
I have been using persil sensitive for some yrs now. It is a big company in this region. I just started cloth diapering and was wondering if this was good to use. Now I know. Thanks alot.
I read that Proctor and Gamble controls about 60% of the detergent market, and that gives them the upper hand in their relationship with Wal-Mart. Very telling that the big box store has introduced a worthy competitor on its own shelves!
Yes when I was so mad about the Tide scent change I thought to myself, well what do they care? More than likely I’ll be replacing it with another P&G product! Thankfully not!
I think we just got a sample of this randomly in the mail. Maybe I’ll try it. I usually use F&C Tide. God knows after 3 weeks of tummy bug we could use a clean up and some refreshing. Blech.
The ladies over at the Fluff Love & CD Science group on Facebook seem to love Persil for their cloth.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FluffLoveCDScience/?fref=ts
What Tide did was switch boxes. so now the mountain Fresh scent is in the original box and the original is in the Mountain Fresh box. Get a mountain fresh and you will see it’s the original scent. Btw picked up the Persil today and so far am not a fan of the scent and my diapers felt a little rough after being washed with it. Gonna use up the bottle and see if I begin to like it.
Well jeez, are they just trying to frustrate their entire customer base? Wish there was a way to know if the boxes in my store were the old or the new mountain fresh!
I will have to look for it in Canada at my local Walmart!
I think it may just be the U.S. now but it’s still VERY new here so hopefully it will be in Canada soon! 🙂
i had the opportunity to review Persil on my regular laundry and was thinking about trying it on cloth because like you Tide has been getting on my scent nerves. So happy to hear you’ve had success with it on your diapers I will definitely be making the switch now
Did you like it on your regular laundry? I am digging it so far on everything! 🙂
Oh my gosh I love it! It is seriously my favorite detergent. It does an amazing job and the smell really is awesome. Even with my extremely sensitive pregnant nose.
Oh awesome!
I just bought a small bottle of the liquid original scent haven’t tried it yet .
Report back how you like it. I seem to not like liquids as much since using cloth even though I used to always use liquid!
I wanted to get a small bottle to make sure we aren’t allergic to it I wanted the powder but it didn’t come in the small bottle I’ll let every one know how it works .
nah I am fed up with current detergent and was looking for something new just never been happy with anything yet
I was thinking of trying it the other day, but the cloth diapers is what held me back, was not willing to risk something new and ruin them but if others have tried it I may when I get soap next
I’m a big believer in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If what you have is working for you, stick with it. 🙂 I just couldn’t deal with the new Tide scent anymore (gave it several boxes to see if I got used to it!) so I was looking for something new!
So, I’m curious, is it truly cloth safe? I wonder how it will compare over time and if it will cause any residue build up? I’ve had mild success with Tide but find better results with soap nuts, so I have no love affair with Tide except that I can buy it at my grocery store instead of ordering online. I’m always paranoid about using traditional “non-CD safe” detergents.
At this point it’s purely anecdotal but I’ve been using mainstream detergent for 5 1/2 years with no ill effects and other families (such as the owners of Abby’s Lane) have been doing so for more than a decade. Several brands actually recommend use of mainstream detergents, and I have yet to see ANY evidence that they will harm diapers.
Persil and Ariel are two top brands in Europe, where I’m from. We often use it back home, but here we have been using Tide. I JUST stocked up on Tide, though, so this Persil will have to wait (several months!) for me to give it a try! 🙂
That’s what I was finding, that Persil & Ariel are the premium brands in Europe. So glad to get to use it here in the U.S. now! 🙂
well, Ariel=Tide. And Dawn=Fairy Ultra
Fascinating, I haven’t ever heard of that detergent before! But good to know about!
The press release was from March so I think it’s still trickling into stores. Especially since it’s only in Wal Mart not everyone would have seen it!