What is the absolute best laundry detergent?

I have been an Avid Tide user for years and every once in a while I will buy a cheaper brand and hate it. What is the best laundry detergent for the money as well as for the quality?

We tried a generic laundry detergent recently as well, and ended up switching back to Tide due to an allergic reation to the store brand of luandry detergent. Clean is clean - the allergy issue is the one that convinced me to keep spending my money on tide.

personally I LOVE gain, but recently we tried a kroger brand, not sure where you are, but it's dye and fragrance free...and we liked it a lot too...but gain is the best.

I grew up with Tide , mother always used Tide and NOTHING ELSE ! Now, that I am grown, with family, sometimes financially cant buy Tide, and have totally noticed the difference. Only on hard to get out stains, the kid's shirts especially, (and of course my husband underware ) but for the most part, I have done every laundry detergent out their and if you dont want to wash your clothes again, (the ones with stains) use TIDE/w Bleach,,,the best,,,from Shelly in Las Vegas, Nevada

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yeah, but tide with bleach ends up fading any garment with color in it. so you're better off just buying the regular tide and a separate bleach. but in saying that, I have tried them all also. truth be told, there is nothing that I can PHYSICALLY see from one detergent to the next that makes me believe its better then all the others. what I tend to look for is whether or not this detergent can take out this stain. and to date, tide included, I've yet to find a detergent that can remove all stains. and NO detergent out there can remove really tough stains without washing the garment a 2nd time. I've found that if you want to have clean clothes, put as few garments in the machine as possible. when you pile a bunch of clothes in the machine, less agitation results which means the clothes come out clean, but not AS clean if given the room to move around in the machine. And using the hottest setting your clothes can take also helps. but needless to say, putting only a few clothes in the laundry and using hot water does not help you in the electric bill department does it? but if you want clean clothes everytime you wash, that to me is what it takes, no so much with the detergent. but I do like tide and gain as mentioned above.

Tide

Tide and All or Gain when money is tight...AOL has an article on the best detergent for your money. Tide was overall one of the best, the others included All, Gain, and Arm and Hammer.

WHATEVER!!! you idiots are NOT the smartest . GAIN is the BEST and your all wrond :D

Persil is my best one as I never find a stain after washing. Also, it has a very good smell. I am really fond of this brand.