Rinse & Refresh Laundry Odor Remover and Fabric Softener Cool Cotton

Breakdown

3 ingredients to avoid

Downy Rinse & Refresh Laundry Odor Remover and Fabric Softener Cool Cotton scores 15/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

Downy Rinse & Refresh Laundry Odor Remover and Fabric Softener Cool Cotton lists 7 ingredients, starting with Water, Citric Acid, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Formate and C12-16 Pareth-9. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 15/100 Downy Rinse & Refresh Laundry Odor Remover and Fabric Softener Cool Cotton scores worse than most fabric softener we have scored. A higher-scoring option in fabric softener is Kirkland Signature Kirkland Signature Free Run at 100/100.