Bonjour tout le monde,
Laundry detergent! I used detergent sheets in the US and love them for their ease of use and portability. I am just about at the end of my stash I brought with me. Does anyone here use these, and if so, recommend a brand available in the supermarchés? Or online, if not locally?
MdA.
We used mail-order ones (because they were without perfume).
Dr Oetker is widely available (unfortunately they all seem to have added perfume).
Good to know, thank you! I also prefer the unscented ones.
These are good and their range includes unscented
Mothers Earth – Mothers Earth Worldwide https://mothersearth.com/en-eu?tw_source=google&tw_adid=725883822715&tw_campaign=22043734993&tw_kwdid=kwd-394016200799&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22043734993&gclid=CjwKCAjw6s7CBhACEiwAuHQckiViLSEIjLD1pXUZqdeldhWnpjWOY01K4NsoVLF7AzV9cyzFYtUEWBoCPbkQAvD_BwE
If you have eLeclerc near you, perhaps you could get these
I di have LeClerc near me!
Action, your new favorite store, also has them.
Check what they contain. Many brands have high levels of PVA as a binder, and the residues are commonly found in sea creatures. This is a Bad Thing (©1930 Sellar &Yeatman).
The least damaging washing agent seems to be soap powder. I buy mine from my local bio food store. You take your own container and they refill it from theirs so fewer plastic containers as well.
I have only just realised the topic is not about laundering bedsheets… but something which goes into the machine with the laundry ???
so… is it a detergent or a softener ??? which has no smell ???
Yes Stella, it’s in sort of American English
I bet you use your local lavoir: have they installed a mangle yet? 
Laundry sheets are rectangles of detergent, about a millimetre thick. They feel a bit like silicon. They dissolve when you use them in one of those new-fangled washing machines.
I think it’s a fashion, but they use quite a lot less packaging.
Brits may call them dryer sheets.
Can’t use the myself because of allergy to something in them.
However, I find them excellent, once moistened, for removing dead insects stuck onto the car after a long journey.
No those are dryer sheets. 
The items under discussion are soluble detergent sheets I believe - if you put them in the dryer they would make everything frothy.
Personally I use the podules, which come in many cheerful colours and smells.
Gosh! There are still housekeeping items I have yet to learn about 
You and me both.
My wife had no idea about these either - maybe they aren’t really much of a thing in the UK?
I hadn’t heard of them so probably not.
That said, my contact with all things laundry is fleeting, cursory and insubstantial. 
I still use Arial liquid from a big bottle for the machine and it took me 7 years to discover liquid Calgon instead of the tablets that regularly built up and clogged the pipe.
We are also still using a Bialetti expresso coffee maker for coffee because a Nespresso machine seems a step too far into the 21st century.
I thought the same until very recently - pod machines seemed wasteful and expensive and I was OK with Kenco Millicano instant. 
But then I found out you could recycle the pods, and Amazon had a Philips L’Or Barista machine on offer for sixty quid so I took the plunge - now I’m addicted. 
I even brought the bloody thing with me on my current trip to France.
It’s love, baby…
In days of yore… laundry had to be taken down into the valley where the river ambles gently along… and (so I am told) the clean but wet bedding etc would be laid over the bushes to dry in the sunshine… 
The Maire had a lavoir built, on the edge of the village around 1970 to save all the hassle…
However, within a few years Electricity came to the village and the householders discovered the wonders of Machines…
Action is a truly wonderful store. We now have two, another having recently opened on the new OOT shopping centre. Not visited it yet, but it surely can’t be long.