For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a carry-on kind of girl. Yes, I’ve had a suitcase lost on more than one occasion, but truthfully, it’s more because I’m impatient. No matter how long the flight, the last thing I want to do when landing at an airport is wait in baggage claim to collect luggage.
Clean Your Clothes
My philosophy is you can do laundry anywhere in the world; I’ve carried detergents in my roller bags for years. Liquids can leak and are subject to TSA restrictions, so I’ve typically gone with powder laundry soap, but even it can spill and be messy, or in rare cases lead to extra security screening.
Spot Detergent Sheets are my current go-to for laundry when I am on the move. The detergent sheets take up little to no room in a suitcase, are lightweight, dissolve quickly once wet, and perhaps most important, do a good job cleaning clothes. I primarily used Spot Detergent Sheets in hotel sinks, but found they’re also simple and effective to use in the washing machine. No measuring or spilling, just throw a half-sheet or full sheet in depending on the size of the load and grime factor of the clothes. Sheets are perforated and easily to tear in two.
Reduces Single Use Plastic
Made in Sweden and packaged in the United States, Spot Detergent Sheets have no plastic packaging. They are sold in large envelopes (a bit smaller than a piece of letter size printer paper) made with a lightweight, recyclable cardboard. The detergent sheets weigh next to nothing and take up a fraction of the space required to store traditional jugs of liquid soap or cardboard boxes of powder detergents.
Spot Detergent Sheets do have a strong fragrance straight out of the package, but I couldn’t detect it on clothes after they were washed and dried. A full list of the ingredients in the detergent sheets can be found here.
Spot Detergent Sheets cost $16.99 for a package containing enough sheets for 120 loads of laundry. Shipping to U.S. addresses is free. A smaller supply of Spot Detergent Sheets, good for 60 loads, can also be purchased on Amazon. At time of review, the cost was $8.54.