Finish Powerball Tablets, Fresh Scent

by Finish

• A pack of 85-Count
• The revolutionary Pre-soaking Powerball bursts into action to help soften the toughest food residues like baked-on lasagna and dried-on oatmeal for easy removal
• Powerful cleaners remove even the toughest stains like coffee and tea and gently scrub your dishes, glasses and silverware sparkling clean
• Rinse Agent action helps rinse away residues, eliminating spots and film for a sparkling shine

Product Description

Size: 85-Count

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FINISH POWERBALL Tab
Fresh Scent

At a Glance:

• Pre-soaking POWERBALL to soften the toughest food residue
• Remove even tough stains
• Gently scrub your dishes, glasses, and silverware
• Help rinse away residue
• Eliminate spots and film for sparkling clean

FINISH POWERBALL Tabs features all-in-one technology that softens tough food stains and eliminates spots and film with JET-DRY. View larger.

POWERBALL Tabs: Powerful Scrubbing Action

The pre-soaking POWERBALL bursts into action to help soften the toughest food residues, like baked-on lasagna and dried-on oatmeal, for easy removal. The powerful cleaners remove even tough stains, like those from coffee and tea, and gently scrub your dishes, glasses, and silverware for a sparkling clean. The Rinse Agent action helps rinse away residue, eliminating spots and film for a sparkling shine.

FINISH POWERBALL Tabs are available in 12, 20, 32, 60, 64, 80, 90, and 100 count sizes in Orange and Fresh scents.

Biodegradable and Safe for Septic Systems

All FINISH automatic dishwashing products are biodegradable and safe for septic systems.

About FINISH

When it comes to pioneering dishwashing products, FINISH has been at the forefront since 1957. FINISH is continuously innovating and rigorously testing its products to ensure excellent dish cleaning results. That's why FINISH is the number-one recommended brand by more dishwasher brands worldwide.* Whatever your lifestyle demands, you can rely on FINISH to give you a brilliant, gleaming shine in every cycle.

What's in the Box

FINISH POWERBALL Tab Fresh Scent (85-Count).

FINISH Solutions

FINISH offers a range of Automatic Dishwasher Detergents that deliver the deep clean and brilliant shine that you demand from your dishwashing products. FINISH offers convenient new solutions that take the worry out of dishwashing. Whatever type of detergent your busy lifestyle demands, FINISH has a solution and offers the "Diamond Standard" in dishwashing. See the FINISH Solutions chart below to discover which solution is right for you.

What's the Solution to your Dishwashing Problem?

 

Dishwasher Cycle

Product

Why Use It?

How Often?

 

Pre-Wash

Glass Magic

Removes cloudy film
from your dishes
and glasses

Every washload

 

Main Cycle

Quantum

Powerball

Powder

Gel

Gelpacs

Detergent

Every washload

 

Rinse Cycle

JET-DRY
Rinse Agent

Protects from
spots & residue

Fill rinse dispenser 1x/month

JET-DRY
TURBO DRY

Dries 3x better (than detergent alone)†

Fill rinse dispenser 1x/month

 

Maintenance

Machine Cleaner

Removes grease & residue from hard to see places

Run 1x/month

*More dishwasher brands recommend FINISH Products worldwide than any other brand.
† Based on a study performed at Reckitt Benckiser's Category Research & Development facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany in March 2011, examining the drying index and visual ratings of items of dishware, glassware, cutlery, and plastic. The study followed the standard test protocol IEC 60436 (Drying Performance test), and results were analyzed via ANOVA followed by Tukey's multiple comparison and significance tested at 95 percent confidence level.

Trademark Information:

FINISH®

GELPACS®

GLASS MAGIC®

JET-DRY®

POWERBALL®

POWERSHINE®

TURBO DRY®

QUANTUM®

QUANTUMATIC®

Product Description

Finish Powerball provides powerful scrubbing action that attacks burnt-on food.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 8 x 8.4 inches ; 3.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Origin: USA
• ASIN: B004S0DZ46
• UPC: 051700837663
• Item model number: 83766
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (290 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
  • #3 in Health & Personal Care > House Supplies > Dishwashing > Dishwasher Detergent

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 92 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Rated July 8, 2011

By Peter Besenbruch

Size Name:60 Count

Consumer Reports gave these a second place rating just behind Finish Quantum Tablets, and ahead of Cascade Complete All-in-one Pacs. All three are hard to find where I live. I have used all three. The Quantums clean well, but tend to allow redepositing. The Cascade cleans decently, but leaves cups with a coffee stain. The Powerballs are the best buy, and particularly in this size, they are quite cheap. They resist redepositing, and clean better than the Cascade.

Other information from Consumer Report's ratings (Summer of 2010): Avoid all liquids/gels. As a group, they performed worst. Powders are at best middling performers.

Update: Consumer Reports has an update review in the summer of 2012. If you have hard water the Finish Powerballs are better than the Quantums. The Quantums drop to number 3 in hard water, leaving the Powerballs number 1 by default.

38 of 45 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars --- probably not ecofriendly; ++ finally gets the white film off my glassware May 28, 2011

By Vahnee

Size Name:60 Count

We always use ecofriendly products, so I was seriously bummed to realize that our super earth-friendly dishwashing detergent was in cahoots with our semi-hard water to leave a subtle opaque buildup on our glasses and inside our high-end dishwasher. We put up with it for over a year, convinced we were just using too much detergent, the hard water was to blame, etc.

Finally, when we ran out of detergent unexpectedly, I picked these up from our local supermarket and used it. I was surprised to see whole streaks of clean metal on the inside of the dishwasher door, where the white film was gone. And in one wash, most of the glassware was much cleaner; in 3 washes, the glasses looked brand, sparkling new again.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars These Little Guys Work November 13, 2009

By Pam T TOP 500 REVIEWER

Size Name:100-Count

I love this product. I've used powder and liquid dishwasher soaps and these tabs are by far the easiest to use. So easy, in fact, that I've made 'starting the dishwasher' one of my 7 year-olds chores. Because it's solid and lightweight, there's no worry about him using too much detergent, nor spilling. Basically, all he has to do is reach under the cabinet, pull out one tab, unwrap it, and put it in the dishwasher (closing the little soap door).

As you no doubt gathered from that description, the tab comes in a sealed package. Personally, I find it wasteful that every tab has it's own sub-packaging and I've actually detracted a star based on this. The packaging though is easy to rip open (nothing like a bag of chips).

As for how well it works::: it works as well as any product we have ever used. The 'jet-dry' portion of the tab keeps glasses spotless, and it scours dishes and pans much better than the regular Electrasol powder did for us.

Summary:::
Easy to use product that gets dishes clean. The jet-dry portion of the tab keeps glasses spotless and it's nice not to have to remember to buy the jet-dry liquid and refill the reservoire.

A definite nice convenience when it's hectic.

Pam T~
(#1042)

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars That's it! I'm FINISHed! May 21, 2011

By Joseph Ekaitis

Size Name:85-Count

Consumer Reports rates these a Best Buy (a high-scoring product that's cheaper than similarly rated products) and my wallet, dishes and glasses agree. When used with the dishwasher's hi-temp wash, these Finish Powerball tabs plow through everything I throw at 'em (see the before and after pictures above). They seem to be more shelf-stable than powders so stocking up when they're on sale shouldn't be a problem.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Detergents EVER January 19, 2012

By Hyoun Kim TOP 500 REVIEWER

Size Name:60 Count|Amazon Verified Purchase

For as long as I can remember, I've had access to an automatic dishwasher for decades. I remember when I was a child, my parents had a pretty decent Whirlpool back in the day (about 20 years ago). There are two things that I remember about that Whirlpool. 1) It made washing dishes easier (I hated washing dishes by hand) and 2) we used a box of powdered Cascade for washing dishes (the kind in that metallic green box).

As I grew older and moved away from home, I experienced probably about almost a dozen or so different automatic dishwashers of varying brands & ages in numerous different apartments/homes that either I lived in or my friends/family lived in. Of all those experiences, I can definitely say that they all washed dishes well.

However I noticed that on occasion, sometimes glassware would have this white powdery residue on them and also, those "Glad" brand tupperware would sometimes get the same white residue that was sometimes even "caked" into the plastic with no way to remove it.

Putting 2 & 2 together, I realized that this residue had to be the dishwasher detergent, as there is no way that just the dishwasher alone could do something like this. Having experienced various brands of detergents (liquid kind, generic, brand name, tablets, pure powder, powder "packets"), I've found that nearly all of them have always put this residue on my glasses/tupperware to some degree.... except one brand. Electrosol (renamed to the name we know as Finish).

I've mainly had experience with the Finish Powerball Tablets, Fresh Scent, 60-Count and the Finish Quantum Powerballs.... Both of these products work wonders with getting my dishes clean but more importantly, these are the only two products that I've used that DON'T leave that nasty white residue on everything. Read more ›

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars That's it! I'm FINISHed! April 17, 2012

By Joseph Ekaitis

Size Name:97 Count (Packs of 32)|Amazon Verified Purchase

Consumer Reports rates these a Best Buy (a high-scoring product that's cheaper than similarly rated products) and my wallet, dishes and glasses agree. When used with the dishwasher's hi-temp wash, these Finish Powerball tabs plow through dried-on soymilk, grease and grime from broiling, hardened egg yolk, congealed cheese . . . everything I throw at 'em (see the before and after pictures above). They seem to be more shelf-stable than powders so two of these 3-packs are headed my way.