What ingredients are in All?

Answer 1

All is a laundry soap based on non-ionic surfactants.. They don't publish the formula, in part because companies constantly jiggle their recipes in order to imprive performance or save a few bucks.

When All came out, most laundry detergents used ionic surfactants. Tide has advertised for years that it's best on American soil. Ionic serfactants work better on dirt. Non-ionic detergents like All aren't as good on soil, but they are significantly better on grease and oil.

Ionic detergents perform best at high temperatures that melt oils and grease. Non-ionic detergents are much less sensitive to temperature; thus Cheer, which came out shortly after All was introduced, advertises "all-temo-a-Cheer."

A third benefit of non-ionic detergents like All is that it's low-sudsing, which is especially important in front-loader washing machines.

Laundry detergents contain "builders" that help keep prevent redeposition of soil. Nobody likes tattle-tail gray!

There are water softeners in laundry detergents, enzymes to attack protein stains, perfumes, and dyes.

Laundry detergents contain fluorescent whitening agents, and these vary a lot from country to country. In countries nearer the equator, they generally have strong agents that the clothes glow violet in the sunlight. In northern climates, customers prefer clothes that look less radioactive.'

The ingredients are different in liquid laundry detergent than in powders.