> There are numerous stories of hypoallergenic people who find that their new washing machine leaves significant detergent in clothing. In 99.9% percent of tho

> There are numerous stories of hypoallergenic people who find that their new washing machine leaves significant detergent in clothing. In 99.9% percent of those cases, the problem is that they're used to the quantities of detergent the old non-HE washers take and refuse to reduce the amount, or (in the case of horizontal axis washers) are confused by the lack of suds in modern detergents and overload the machine with detergent. The latter is an especially common problem in laundromats serving low-income areas. Sometimes the machines were so caked with old detergent that I could run a load with plain water and it would come our perfectly clean.