Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A friend bought it. It worked for a while then it didn't. I wanted to say "told you so". What I don't understand is how it can claim to change water's ph! This is a piece of plastic with ceramics that gets mixed with water. The change of ph isn't possible, it's a chemical change that changes ph, and this ball is actually not supposed to make chemical changes. In fact, this type of cleaning was well known for centuries, we just forgot the secret. It was called "beating your clothes on a rock in a river". Try this: put a rock in your washer, the beating action works just as well as this ball and it's free! It's actually better than free, it's ecofriendly! Producing this piece of plastic caused polution! Another thing is that people use way too much detergent. What is in your clothes will last a few more washes. Try this too: put your clothes in a washer without any detergent. Notice how much foam you have even without pouring more detergent. That foam is what cleans grease. If clothes are not greasy, but have just some dust/dirt etc water will do the job just fine. There is just so much detergent stuck on clothes, you need small amount and not with every wash. I accidentally put my cheese cloth (special stirdy kind) with dish towels and washed it instead of handwashing it. That was a big mistake because I spent way more time trying to get the soap out of it than it would have taken to wash it by hand. I had to take all the soap out because it had to be perfectly clean for cheese making. When I thought all soap was gone, I boiled the cheese cloth to sanitize it and boy was I wrong about getting soap out. When it was boiling I had lots of foam on top.... meaning, there was still soap in it! It seemed impossible to get the soap out. Eventually, after several boiling water changes (boiling seemed to get soap out better) I noticed the foam was gone, but I bet there was still some in that cheese cloth. That cheese cloth was the size of a wash cloth. Should be easy to rinse out ALL the soap, but it wasn't as easy as you think..... So I bet the plastic ball's effectivness at first is all thanks to the detergent still stuck on your clothes.