Hello All
I have a little tweak to an old issue to bring up. I know the common wisdom on washing down; front loading washer, down specific detergent, warm water, delicate cycle etc. I even read the thread on sport specific detergent being a marketing scheme perpetrated on us gullible outdoors people. I have another question, however, and it does concern detergent and in-home front loading washing machines, as opposed to laundromat machines. I have a low energy front loader at home and it requires high efficiency detergent such as Tide HE. This has something to do with standard detergent creating to much sudzing and thus overflowing the machine. This sounds bad and is something I obviously want to avoid. However, I also don't want to ruin my down equipment. So my question is can I use a supermarket high efficiency detergent like TIDE HE on my down gear or does Nikwax or somebody make a down detergent for high efficiency washers? I can wait to get some answers but my Montbell jacket is getting a bit ripe.
