Dropps is a new eco-friendly laundry detergent compatible with HE and standard washing machines that claims to be a high quality cleaning product aiming to simplify the cleaning process. While Dropps can’t yet separate white versus colors for you, it does eliminate the thought process behind how much detergent to add.

For packaging, rather than adopting the traditional laundry jug and cup like most competitors, Dropps uses individually wrapped laundry “pacs”. Each pac is water soluble and removes itself during the rinse cycle. No more messy spills or pouring action, all you have to do is throw the sac into the washer and get used to seeing a suds-free wash.

Why suds-free you ask? Well apparently those behind the product believe that suds are visual stimulation and really provide no purpose except to leave a layer of grimy film on your clothing blocking the natural fibers in clothing from breathing. Given the amount of dirty benches I have sat on, pasta stains I have inherited and puddles I have walked in i’m not quite sure how much actual breathing space I have given my clothes as is BUT just thinking about sud film gets me closterfabric, ahem I mean closterphobic.

According to the Dropps website, just in the US liquid laundry detergent is used for 25 billion loads per year. If these loads were done with Dropps instead of the usual cup and jug not only would we have a monopoly we would also save:

- 502,441,406 gallons of water
- 6,233,726 gallons of diesel gas in transport
- 622,377 tons of greenhouse gas emissions in transport
- 132,913 tons of cardboard which saves 2,392,425 trees
- 267,968,750 lbs of plastic which equals 133,984 tons

Not sold? Sample two packs of Laundry Dropps (Fresh Scent Blue or Clear Fragrance Free) can be ordered on the website. Shipping and handling comes to $1.94. FYI: Habitual product use with cost you $29.99 per 60 wash loads (shipping is free).

Update: Click here to get a mail in rebate for 20 free loads