Tom Forsythe makes a good point. Extraction really does limit/eliminate dye bleed if done quickly and efficiently at critical points in the wash process. This requires wringers and centrifuges. Vacuum suction and compressed air work just fine, but are impossibly inefficient unless you are washing a small number of rugs a day. Even then, there might be better ways to spend your time. We wash a lot of rugs every day, and a minimum of 40-50 Navajo rugs a week. We use none of the commercially prepared 'dye stabilizers', 'dye releasers', 'anti-dye' etc. products, and never have.
The problem with the marketing of many products today is that it targets the intro level cleaner; the operator with less experience and training, less equipment, less confidence. Having been sold on an expensive and cumbersome product line of 'essential' chemicals, the cleaner may slowly discover that advances in skill and confidence have brought them to a point where cleaning volume goes up, and the need for intro level process and chemicals goes down. Most marketing programs seem to ignore this fact. No surprise, I suppose; who would enter a market with a slogan that announced you'd probably want to graduate from a product as soon as you discovered it was of limited efficacy? Instead, 'echo chamber' style marketing stresses the essential nature of the goods being sold - no matter what, no discussion - often to a point where you wonder if they are about to start passing out the purple Kool-aid.
Mr. Mann,
As I stated in another post on this subject,
Centrum Force® wants to distance themselves from "voo-doo science" and we are transparent about all our products. It is better to discuss how it works so expectations do not exceed reality.
Let me personally go on record about a product
Centrum Force® promotes for their Wash Tub users, namely
Secret Sauce. It is an additive to be introduced into the contained water vessel of the Wash Tub. It is not meant to be splashed on rugs on the floor and rinsed down the drain.
Secret Sauce was initially intended to be used in our Wash Tub application for dye management when rugs release dyes during the washing process. We did not sell to the public for years, but rather we confined sales only to Wash Tub owners. The many Wash Tub users have appreciated that unique circumstance for nearly 10 years now. We never said, nor believe, that it locks dyes on the textile.
Using it in a 1200 gallon paddle wheel wash tub necessitates that it must be used as directed to realize its full objective. The objective is managing and preventing the staining of direct dyes or reactive dyes or re-deposit loose dyes during the wash while inside the Wash Tub. This additive especially has value when multiple textile pieces are being washed together as often is the case with
Centrum Force® Wash Tub users. Think of it as a binder or suspending agent to capture loose dyes.
The key to
Secret Sauce is this fact: It has elements of a water-soluble polymer and binding agents.
Note: It is nonionic and has a ph of 7 undiluted. It has been tested by WoolSafe® and received their seal of approval.
Of further note: Conventional cleaning agents, detergents and wetting agents do not affect its desired performance. That is why we use our proprietary product known as
Knock-Out as our preferred cleaning agent with it in the Wash Tub.
Knock-Out is a plant based Colloidal Micelle cleaning product formulated to wash rugs specifically as we suggest. (Incidentally, it makes a wonderful, non scented laundry cleaner for use on clothes in your washing machine at home. It only requires about ½ oz of concentrate for each wash load provided you are using the newer type of water efficient washing machine)
Secret Sauce and
Knock-out, are all WoolSafe® Approved.
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