A shirt – impervious to stains?
It’s a young mother’s dream come true … or in this case, a young father. We tested the stain fighter Blox at the home of my co-anchor Wendy Bell, but we had her husband Joe handle the hard part.
Joe not only washed their kids clothes in Blox, but also tested it by serving mom’s spaghetti and meatballs to young Ryan and their twins, Christopher and Bobby.
Blox is an interesting product because the premise is that by washing your clothes with this — it creates many “little umbrellas” on your clothes, shielding them from anything from juice to sauce. In the infomercial, the kids pour sports drink right on their clothes and it seems to just roll off: the beading effect as they call it.
Well, we found that while everything from water to grape juice does bead up on the shirts treated with Blox, the grape juice also sets in … and would not come out. Spaghetti sauce? It didn’t even bead up. It just stayed there.
Blox was a bust …. but Joe found something interesting when he went to wash his children’s clothes after they ate. He washed them with Blox again … and the grape juice and spaghetti stains came out. Completely. Was it the Blox that did it? We really cannot be sure.
One thing that is certain: Blox may block stains on TV, but in practical use at Wendy and Joe’s house, it did little to stop stains. Maybe you will fare better with the product. Here’s a link to the Blox website.
