This is the old Cascade dishwasher detergent that did a marvelous job at cleaning your dishes and leaving your dishwasher spotless as well. Without it, our machine becomes "gunked up" with white mineral deposits that coat the filter and clog the openings in the impeller arms that spray wash the dishes. After using this product for a few weeks, the deposits were greatly reduced and as we have continued to use it, our dishwasher is once again clean as are our dishes. Finally, no more cloudy glasses and dull cutlery. The dishes sparkle! We hope that they will continue to make this product, but it looks uncertain. We paid the high price because we would like to keep our wonderful dishwasher (circa 1990 and going strong with a metal impeller and heavy dish racks). We also don't want to return to deposits on our dishes and the worries about what we were ingesting.
This product is a superb representation of the Original formulae Cascade Automatic Dishwashing Powder. The performance is excellent, especially in hard-water areas and leaves glasses and flatware sparkling.
Those people with old automatic dishwashers will really enjoy this product as it is a formulae that was originally made for the older machines.
My old KitchenAid dishwasher has been transformed with this product as it was made to use it ,instead of the lame modern enzyme-based detergents.