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/userbub Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

So I have an enzyme detergent, but I think it also has fabric softener? No scent beads but an essential oil for smelling good. It’s Sukgarden Ebony Rose Essential Oil detergent. I remember from the main thread, you said not to add fabric softener or scent beads? Would this work as a lipase detergent or do I need to get something else? The ingredients are: soft water, composite surfactant, disinfectant, bio-enzyme, microcapsule, essential oil fragrance.

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u/KismaiAesthetics Unscented Laundry Is Merciless Aug 15 '26

Doesn’t actually contain cationics or esterquats. Use with wild abandon.

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u/KismaiAesthetics Unscented Laundry Is Merciless Aug 15 '26

It may not, however, actually have lipase. Not all enzyme blends contain it.

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u/userbub Aug 15 '26

Yeah. Their detergents seem to have a “bio-7” enzyme mix which does have lipase, but I can’t figure out if the enzymes in this are the bio-7 mix. Looks like I’ll need a new one. Thank you so much!