Nov 30, 2008 10:30 pm US/Pacific
Buy It And Try It: Blox
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
The Machado boys keep mother Lisa busy. Having three boys translates to a lot of stains and a lot of laundry.
"It's just a constant struggle to keep things clean," Lisa said.
The Blox commercial shows juice ruining an untreated dress, but then it shows it repel the juice on a dress treated with Blox.
It's supposed to work on spaghetti, coffee, juice, mustard, ketchup, dirt, blood and more. All you do to treat clothes is pour the Blox solution into the fabric softener dispenser or during the rinse cycle as you was a load of laundry. One bottle is enough to treat two loads.
After drying the clothes, the clean white shirt is now Blox'ed.
The kids raid the refrigerator so we can make a good old mess, and we head outside to test out blox. We'll compare the results to an untreated t-shirt. The kids start easy, with a clear juice.
It seems to soak into the non-treated shirt, but with the shirt with Blox…
"It beaded off."
It doesn't set in. The kids then put on the shirts, and we'll try a colored liquid: cold coffee.
It soaks right into the untreated shirt, but with the Blox shirt:
"It's coming right off!"
Put them side-by-side, you can see a big difference. Now for something thicker, ketchup.
Some slid off the treated shirt, but some of the red mess stayed behind. Following the directions, mom flushes with water, but it still leaves a small stain.
"This just soaks right in [to the untreated shirt], and that comes right off [the Blox shirt]," Lisa said, comparing the two. "That's pretty impressive."
But we're not done: Let's try mustard. Again, it soaks into the untreated shirt. The Blox shirt is better, but not stain-free.
The directions online say tougher stains on Blox-treated shirts will come off if you wash it. Lisa did, and sent pictures showing the stains did come out, compared to the washed non-treated shirt.
"I'm very impressed," Lisa said.
Blox costs $19.99 for two bottles at PreventStains.com
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