The top two best-performing laundry detergents in Consumer Reports’ test were Tide Plus Ultra Stain Release (It costs about 28 cents a load.) and Persil Proclean Stain Fighter (21 cents a load).

In fact, I found it did a better job leaving laundry odor-free than Tide liquids with no scent. Personally, this evaluation may inspire me to try a scented detergent just for towels and sweaty ...

Buy On Amazon. $22.89. Buy on walmart. This liquid laundry detergent from Tide is the most effective “green” detergent we’ve ever tested from any of the big name brands.

Smart & Final's five-gallon bucket of Tide laundry detergent sells for $24. Walmart's biggest box is about one-third the size for $13, so the bucket is quite a bargain - about a 40 percent discount.

Persil has long been a best-selling laundry detergent in Europe, but it's only been on sale in the U.S. since 2015. In testing, Persil removed an average of 2 percent more stains than Tide detergents.

I took this advice, but to make pretreating easier, I put Tide in a spray bottle with just enough water to get it to flow easily from the nozzle (about 70% detergent and 30% water).

We washed 12 loads to find out.Tide Evo, a new form of laundry detergent, ... Personally, this evaluation may inspire me to try a scented detergent just for towels and sweaty clothes.

HOUSTON — Persil laundry detergent dropped big bucks on a Super Bowl ad for the fourth year in a row. So, how does this German detergent stack up to an American favorite, Tide?