Best free website for product reviews on household goods such as laundry soaps,etc?

Consumer Reports lets you see one class of product before making you subscribe. They are still the most independent.

Before I buy anything, I go to amazon to check customer ratings. I have not yet been disappointed.

I think the a fabulous and unbiased site for this stuff is http://consumersearch.com

They might not have all your household goods, but they do a great job of aggregating other reviews and distilling the research down into a few choices. They even look at consumer reports and amazon. It can get out of date, but it’s really worth checking out.

@ben Thanks for that one!

After having used consumersearch for a very long time, I finally switched to paying for Consumer Reports. And, despite meaning to cancel after the first month, I’m still a subscriber, since I still keep using it.

The one problem with consumersearch is that they’re often not the most up-to-date, and many times aggregating information from a bunch of different sources only tells you “there a few good models, but people don’t agree on which ones are good”.