Laundry, scored on published evidence
Detergent, the things people add to it, and the things they put in the dryer afterwards.
Comparisons
Checked
Laundry detergent
Ten products across tablets, sheets, pods, powder and liquid, read on six things a reader can check from a product page.
Checked
Stain removers and laundry boosters
Six products, put in order by us on what the brands publish.
Checked
Dryer balls and dryer sheets
Five products, put in order by us on what the brands publish.
Reading on laundry
What PVA actually is, and what the evidence does not settle
Polyvinyl alcohol is the film round most detergent pods, and the argument about it is considerably louder than the evidence underneath it.
Cost per wash, and why every other laundry price misleads you
Ten laundry detergents, re-priced from the manufacturers’ own pages on 21/08/2026 and divided by the washes each pack claims.
Where our own products lose, and why we publish it anyway
This site is owned by Vove, and Vove is not shy about printing that.
Are laundry and dishwasher pods plastic?
The film round a detergent pod is a synthetic polymer, and whether that makes it plastic depends entirely on which document you are reading.
Treating a set stain against replacing the garment: the numbers
A set stain turns a shirt into an arithmetic problem: what a treatment costs, what a replacement costs, and what happens to the garment if you give up on it.
What changed
Laundry detergent
Cost per use now reads the cheapest published pack of each product; every price on this page was re-read on 26/08/2026 and the method version moves to v1.3.
Laundry detergent
The order of this page is now our editorial choice and can differ from the score order; every score stays computed from published evidence and printed.
Laundry detergent
Certifications now count 5 per cent instead of 10 and ingredient transparency rises to 25; the method version moves to v1.4 and the reasoning is dated on the methodology page.
Laundry detergent
The Vove packaging row is re-read as a plastic-free refill system: the product page now sells the naked tablets as refills for a steel tin you keep.
New comparisons and price checks
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