Product review (4 stars): Works well for linen items that need a long pre-soak. But so does a 5 gallon bucket and a clean plunger.
Hi bought six years ago to use for washing linen table napkins and my husbands linen handkerchiefs. I use hot water and Oxyclean, and would agitate the items for a couple of minutes and then leave them for an hour. After several cycles of that, after the water had cooled off, I would dump everything out and run the wet items through the washing machine with the rest of a load of ordinary white laundry. This technique got the napkins and handkerchiefs completely white and stain free, something I could never achieve with the regular washing machine.
After a couple of years, the lid cracked and would no longer hold a seal. I switched to using a 5 gallon bucket and a (clean) toilet plunger, with the same amounts of hot water, Oxyclean, and white linen items, with similar results and a much cheaper set up that was much easier to move and more compact to store.