Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Busting supermarket myths   Most of us believe certain things about the cleaning products we buy, but they’ve actually been planted in our heads by years of advertising.   So let’s bust some of those myths.   Myth 1: The best shampoos, toothpastes and dish liquids foam well. In many cases scientists figure out how to do something, then make a feature out of it. Lots of research has gone into foam, and making it last as long as possible. It doesn’t make things any cleaner, we have just been taught to think so.Myth 2: My clothes need to smell clean to actually BE clean: No, you are just smelling the persistent synthetic perfume added to the laundry product. And for people with allergies perfumes are one of the worst offenders. Then, these chemicals in your laundry products don’t all rinse out and are up against your skin 24/7. Even if you sleep naked, they are in your sheets and pillow slips.  Myth 3: Whiter than white. For many generations there was a competition about who had the whitest clothes. Early twenti