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Statistics


Choose Less Salt

Results Before Low Salt Cleaning Challenge
The graph below shows the percentages of which category of detergent people used before taking the Low Salt Challenge.

41%
14%
23%
14%
9%
0%
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grams of salt (Na) in detergent

Results of People Changing Brands
Since seeing the detergent research list the following percentage of people have changed to a brand with less salt.

10%

Results After Low Salt Cleaning Challenge
This graph shows the percentages of which category of detergent people used after taking the Low Salt Challenge.

68%
18%
14%
0%
0%
0%
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grams of salt (Na) in detergent


Use Less Salt

Washing Results - Guess, Measure or Reduce
The graph below shows the percentages of how detergent was used when individuals did the washing.

GUESS 6%
MEASURE 43%
REDUCE 51%
method of selecting detergent

Effectiveness of Reducing the Amount of Detergent
This graph compares the effectiveness of doing a load of washing with reduced detergent to a wash with the recommended detergent.

  LESS 11%  
  SAME   84%
  MORE 5%  
effectiveness of using less detergent

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