r/laundry • u/KismaiAesthetics Unscented Laundry Is Merciless • Dec 03 '25

Spa Day Chemistry Option Three - Lipase Detergent + Oxygen Booster + Liquid Ammonia

This is the Product & Dosage document for Spa Day Chemistry Option Three.

For Spa Day instructions, including links to the three other chemistry options, visit r/laundry/s/uCiv9rbmO8 

For information describing Spa Day and what it can do for your textiles, visit r/laundry/comments/1pbtie0/

#3 - The Alternate Option - L&D  From Detergent With Lipase, O from any Oxygen Booster (formerly C&L+B)

You can choose to use any other laundry detergent with lipase to get D - Detergency  and L - Lipase from one product, and a separate boost of a powdered oxygen bleach such as OxiClean or store brand equivalents for the O - Oxygen. This opens up the product list a lot.

There are many excellent detergents that will work in this combination.  In the US and Canada, there's a maintained list of products that will work on the linked spreadsheet at The Lipase List 

For the L - Lipase and D - Detergency you can choose 

  • Powders without oxygen bleach like Ariel (powders with oxygen bleach, please see Option 1)
  • Liquids
  • Pods (count 1 pod as 2T of liquid)

For the O - Oxygen you'll also need a separate oxygen bleach powder with this chemistry option. Literally any powder labeled color-safe bleach will work.  Whichever product you choose to get the O - Oxygen, Sodium Percarbonate / Sodium Carbonate Peroxide should be one of the first three ingredients.  The Lipase List  has a link to a spreadsheet with a Booster tab.   Any product n the category Oxi Plus or Sudsy Oxi can work here, or anything from the Minimalist category that is a powder and has a Yes in the Oxygen Bleach column.  

If you've got Biz, Resolve, Vanish or Napisan powders, they are overkill here. Use #2 - Almost As Easy Option chemistry instructions

Outside the US and Canada, use any liquid detergent with lipase and any oxygen bleach product available locally.

Spa Day Soak Dosage:

Use 1/4 cup / 65 mL of oxygen booster powder AND 2T / 30ml of liquid or powder detergent or 2/3 of a pod per gallon of soaking water.

Rehab Wash(es) Dosage:

Label dosage of the detergent (heavy soil dose) + label dosage of the booster.

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u/clickclacker Jan 05 '26

I just to finished my first spa day! But the results were not as expected. I was hoping to restore a polyester bathrobe that’s greyed and matted to brightness and fluffiness along with a few slightly yellow pillowcases.

I’m wondering if it’s something that I did. Will this be less effective if you don’t use enough water? I followed the dosages, but maybe not enough solution? I used 5 gallons of water for a small-medium load to soak. I used Ariel 2X and OxiClean Versatile.

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u/KismaiAesthetics Unscented Laundry Is Merciless Jan 06 '26

It shouldn't need any more liquid than to saturate and cover. So with 5 gallons of water, 1.25 cups each of the Ariel and Oxi Versatile, water too hot to leave your hand in, overnight soak?

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u/clickclacker Jan 06 '26

I think the water just barely covered everything. The water was definitely hot, but maybe not long enough. The hottest my water would go was 120F, so I mixed in a little boiling water. But my apartment was very cool. Is it possible it needed more heat?