Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner, Helps Power Away Odor Causing Bacteria & Grime Deep Inside Pump, Valve & Hoses, 5 Time Release Tablets, 5 Month Supply

Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner is one of those products that you do not realize you need until you actually use it — and then you wonder how you ever went without it. I have been using it regularly for several months now and the difference it has made in our washing machine is genuinely impressive. Before using Affresh, I started noticing a musty, unpleasant odor coming from our front-load washer, which is a very common issue with high-efficiency machines that tend to trap moisture and residue over time. After just the first cleaning cycle with Affresh, the smell was completely gone. The drum smelled fresh and clean, and that freshness has carried over to our laundry as well. The tablets are incredibly easy to use. You simply drop one tablet into the drum (not the detergent dispenser), run a hot water cleaning cycle, and let it do all the work. No scrubbing, no mess, no complicated steps. It took less than five minutes of actual effort on my part and the machine did the rest. What I appreciate most about Affresh is that it is specifically formulated to penetrate and dissolve the residue, grime, and odor-causing bacteria that builds up inside the drum, door seal, and hoses over time — areas that you simply cannot reach with regular cleaning. It is recommended by major appliance brands, which speaks volumes about its effectiveness and safety for your machine. I now run a cleaning cycle with Affresh once a month as part of my regular home maintenance routine and the washer has stayed consistently clean and odor-free ever since. The pack of tablets is great value and lasts several months depending on how often you run a cleaning cycle. If you have a front-load or top-load HE washer and you have never cleaned it with a dedicated cleaner, do yourself a favor and get this. Your machine, your clothes, and your nose will thank you. Highly recommend.

I started using these Affresh washing machine cleaner tablets as part of my regular cleaning routine, and they’re very easy to use. You just drop a tablet in and run a cycle, which makes it simple and convenient. After using it, the washer smells much fresher, and it feels cleaner overall, especially if you do a lot of laundry. I like that it’s low effort but still effective for maintaining the machine. It’s a good reminder that washers also need cleaning from time to time. The tablets dissolve well and don’t leave any residue behind. The value pack is also nice since it lasts for multiple uses. One thing to keep in mind is that for heavily built-up machines, you may need to use it more than once to really notice a difference. Overall, it’s a simple and reliable product for keeping your washing machine clean and fresh.

Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner has officially earned a permanent spot in my home maintenance routine. If you own a washing machine and want it to stay clean, efficient, and odor-free, this is an absolute must in your arsenal. It’s incredibly easy to use—just drop a tablet in and let it do its thing. No scrubbing, no guesswork. What impressed me most is how well it tackles that hidden buildup you don’t see—detergent residue, grime, and the stuff that causes that “mystery smell” over time. After using it, my washer genuinely smells fresh again, and you can tell it’s running cleaner. It’s one of those products you don’t think about until you try it… and then you realize you should’ve been using it all along. I like knowing I’m taking care of an appliance that gets constant use, especially when repairs or replacements can get expensive. This is a simple, affordable way to extend the life of your machine and keep everything running the way it should. Bottom line: easy, effective, and essential. If you’re serious about maintaining your home appliances, don’t skip this.

Use it with confidence it will clean the muck from your washer outer basket.

My bad. That ONE AND ONLY TIME I perused the manual for my top-loading washing machine — 16 years ago, on the day of installation — I might have overlooked the part recommending periodic, internal cleaning. Probably the reason I find myself typing a review for machine cleaners today. (The OUTSIDE is extremely clean and in pristine condition…so please, no judgement.) I’d always attributed the SCRUD deposits left on clothes (in warm and hot washes) to the shoddy plumbing work that was done on our home, built two years prior to the machine’s installation. [Nothing ever drained well, there were weird odors, and a test cap was left on one of the roof vents which went undiscovered for 14 years!]. I would just shake the slimy, brown flecks/chunks off onto the floor, shove clothes into the dryer, clean up the mess and move on. However, last week’s hot, bleachy load of my favorite, fluffiest towels simply sent me over the edge. My freshly-laundered, snowy-white and fairly expensive “after-bath HUGS” were generously sprinkled with the slimy, dark-brown flecks of crud! So very gross!! After shaking every item and cleaning up, yet again, I’d had ENOUGH and decided to learn how to fix this dilemma. With know-it-all Google being one of the best inventions of the 21st Century, I started there... OMG! First of all, SCRUD (soap crud, I imagine) is so aptly-named. Thankfully, I’m not the only person on the planet this is happening to (relief) and there ARE solutions to my suffering (more relief). Said ‘solutions’ are time-consuming and can get pricey but, at some point, desperate for a fix, ya just gotta bite the bullet and hope for the best. One remedy I discovered was these Affresh cakes. Hmmm…let’s start HERE, it seems easy enough. Plop one in, run the hottest, fullest cycle, wipe out the loosened SCRUD, repeat twice more and go on with your life. Even I can handle that — no appliances to move… no screws, panels or drums to REmove, no repair person to call (yet)…sign me up! I immediately placed my Amazon order for a 6-pack. But, just in case these won’t work, let’s keep searching… Further down the rabbit hole that is Google, I hopped over to the YouTube abyss and found two wonderful videos addressing my exact issue. [Handz for Hire and Ben’s Appliances and Junk]. Handz introduced me to the word SCRUD and, clearly, was experiencing the same thing with his own, but newer, machine. He used vinegar and baking soda, disassembled his machine to remove the wash drum AND manually scrubbed it with a Lysol cleaner. Although he did a wonderful job, this seemed like a LOT more than I could handle or even access myself, so I kept searching. Ben showed a half-assembled washer (for instructional purposes) and recommended using Citric Acid powder and OxiClean to take care of a gunked-up machine. Duly noted, Ben. Thank you, both! Back down the rabbit hole I descended, now in search of information on Citric Acid. Lo-and-behold, this stuff claims to clean practically EVERYTHING I’d ever need to clean: Keurig machine, water kettle, toilet tank and bowl ring, washing machine, shower grime, windows, and more. WOW! I immediately ordered a 2-lb bag of THAT too. Orders arrived, as promised…thank you, Amazon. Since I didn’t have the FIVE HOURS my machine would require to run 3 empty wash loads with Affresh cakes and the follow-up rinse cycle, I began using the Citric Acid powder on other things that needed to be cleaned instead. I started with that stubborn, limescale toilet ring. I dumped 3 Tbsp. of powder into the bowl, dissolved it using the toilet brush, and waited 30 minutes. Well, as water in toilets finds its own level (due to gravity, traps, vents, etc.), the cleaning solution remained just UNDER the ring I was intending to remove. How is that going to work if the liquid is not even soaking the area I’m trying to clean? I added more water to the bowl until the level was back above the ring and the water line self-leveled again — to below the targeted area. I placed a bottle of water in the bowl, hoping the displacement would raise the cleaning solution enough — for long enough — to penetrate the stubborn ring and loosen the scale. Yet again, the water leveled-out to just under the ring. I give up! [Not knocking the Citric Acid at all…I’m sure it would do a fantastic job on bowl or tank stains that are UNDER the water line.] Frustrated, I dove back into the hole and began searching for toilet pumice scrubbers — which a relative swears by. Hundreds more reviews later, I abandoned the search deciding that the risk of clogging my trap with a broken pumice chunk or permanently scratching my porcelain bowl — and causing MORE problems — overshadowed the faint limescale demarcation that only I seem to notice or care about. 🫤 Moving on…electric water kettle. As I only use fresh, filtered, dispensed refrigerator water in my kettle, I have never cleaned it. Whatever germs are in there are getting boiled and it’s left open to dry thoroughly after use. Plus, due to its electrical contacts, it cannot be submerged in water. Over many years of using it, a white, dotted limescale film has coated the bottom and pour spout. Not a big deal for me but it looks unsightly. I used 1 Tbsp. powder and 4 1/2 C of water in kettle, stirred to dissolve, let it come to a boil and then sit for 30 minutes. The limescale dots were softened and easily wiped off with a bottle brush. Rinsed out the kettle and it looks new inside! Ok…impressed. Shower head and faucet aerators? Descaled all in one bowl and they came out working like new…good flow/pressure. Same recipe as kettle (1 Tbsp acid and 4.5 C of boiling water). Suggested time was 15 minutes. Mine had to go a full 30 and some light scrubbing was necessary . Totally worth the effort, though. UPDATE: [If you’re intrigued…] More about the Milliard citric acid powder (Amazon B00EYFKM32) in my review there 7/21/24. Back to laundry: Finally completed the three Affresh cake cycles and ensuing rinse load. After each Affresh cleaning cycle, the only thing I noticed — as far as SCRUD droppings in the bottom of the washer — was one tiny speck. What?! $7 of cleaning cakes, lots of hot water and wasted electricity for only THREE slimy, gross specks? I find more in the drum washing towels with bleach! Hopefully, all of the dissolution and disposal of the gunk happened behind the scenes and simply made it out to the sewer on its own. 🤞🏻 A bonus: although our washer never had any kind of funky odor, it’s GOT to be cleaner than before and the Affresh made the laundry room smell really nice. I gave the machine a day off to rest. I’m now running a test load of white towels and rags that were already clean (hottest temperature, highest water level, bleach, detergent and fabric softener). Making sure that whatever SCRUD flakes might be lurking around, waiting to pounce on something, land on the rags and not the stuff we care about (see paragraph 3). Ok, alarm sounded — that’s done. Let’s take a look… So far, nothing dark and slimy is visible. Taking the first towel out for inspection… No spots on it. Giving it a good shake, just in case. (Floor still clean.) Next one out is a hand towel… Looks good; passed the shake test. The rest… Same results. The bottom of the drum… Nothing. NOT A SPECK OF SCRUD TO BE SEEN AND THE FLOOR IS CLEAN! Going forward, with monthly Affresh cleanings, maybe we’ll get another 16 years out of this washer. Hope this helps at least SOMEone.

Easy to use just to toss it in works great. I’m glad these were recommended. I’ve never had to wipe afterwards, but that’s just me. I’m really glad these exist to help my machine stay fresh and new smelling.

I have a set of Whirlpool Duet frontload washer/dryer that are 16 yrs old and going strong. Don't judge me, but for 15 years, I never washed it other than running the wash cycle maybe 3x and only once did I add the bleach (per manufacturer's instruction). The putrid, old, musty, gamey, mold smell only went away for a short time then would come back several weeks later. I thought the only recourse i had was to let the washer air dry with the door open and deal with it. I saw these washer tabs on Tik Tok and realized, hey man, these exist? Where have I been all this time?? Excited to try them on my funky smelling washer, I was now faced with the task of choosiing which brand to buy. I chose the Affresh because it seemed most economical but also highly rated. It arrived last night and I popped one in the washer and ran it on the wash cycle (per Affresh instructions). Note: I had a bit of anxiety doing this as it clearly states on the dial "Clean Cycle - Bleach ONLY." So I broke the Whirlpool rules and defied the instructions, but I guess I will ask for forgiveness later if necessary. The cycle finished and a few moments ago and in order to truly test the effectiveness of this product, I opened the door, stuck my head inside and took a HUGE WHIFF. People, my washer smells CLEAN. No, not pine smell clean. Not strong perfumey clean. Just FRESH & CLEAN! I describe the smell as that same smell of the suds when you go through a car wash (almost fruity?) How? What exactly did this do? Inside of the drum, I found there were 2 things left behind: a coffee bean and a small quarter-sized clump of hair. THAT'S ALL. I braced myself and looked inside the rubber door liner, thinking there will be a disgusting sludge of slime and gunk for me to wipe up. While there was some dirty spots as residual, it was almost nothing. I took a paper towel and ran it along the inside of the door seal and picked up just a small smearing of residual black stuff. Don't ask me where the rest of it went, but at this point, I don't care. I'm trusting the process because everything else smells and looks great! The inside of my washer is still wet, though, with droplets clinging to the drum. Since instructions say to remove any residual, I wiped it dry with a paper towel and leaving the door open to air dry whatever remains. Instructions say to repeat the process up to 3x if washer is still stinky, but I only used one tablet in one cycle and my machine smells awesome and looks sparkly! I have 5 more tabs left so I'm thrilled. I don't think there is a need for me to try or compare the Affresh brand to something else. I'm extremely satisfied with it and unless there's a reason for me to change, I will stick to Affresh from now on. Guys, please re-read my first sentences. After 16yrs and only washing my washer 3x, I achieved the impossible with one Affresh tab. If my washer can get clean smelling, so can yours!

These work great. Really gets the machine clean and gets rid of odor. The dishwashing Affirm tablets have the same ingredients and they are 3 dollars less.

My dishwasher is sparkling cleaning after using these !

Really good product. Chat GPT recommended it for my washing machine as it was leaving 'dirty' marks on light clothing possibly caused my washing liquid residue. I found them very effective. I will now be using these regularly. Apparently by ensure a lack of build up, I will lengthen the life of my machine.

Worked q well after one wash - will do this regularly once a month from now on. Sell dud return though

Good

Buen producto limpia y desinfectar la lavadora frontal LG