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The single best thing I've ever done with my laundry is to stop using harsh or smelly soap and stop using fabric softeners. I use cheap and bio-degradable soap for washing my clothes but (here's the secret) in the rinse cycle I use 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar. The vinegar helps raise the acidity of the water during the rinse cycle to help remove soap residue from the clothes. No fabric softener needed. My clothes are soft and static free and don't smell like any terrible perfumes.
If you want freshness, hang the clothes on a clothesline. I have been doing it for decades, in fact all my life. Clothes always smell fresh.
such a simple concept, yet everyone forgets about it.
wonder why????
all the fabric softner and dryer sheets can never compare to freshness.
Like the label on a lysol or air freshner bottles, there is always a picture of sheets hanging on a clothesline to tell the purchaser that their spray will smell like fresh.
The single best thing I've ever done with my laundry is to stop using harsh or smelly soap and stop using fabric softeners. I use cheap and bio-degradable soap for washing my clothes but (here's the secret) in the rinse cycle I use 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar. The vinegar helps raise the acidity of the water during the rinse cycle to help remove soap residue from the clothes. No fabric softener needed. My clothes are soft and static free and don't smell like any terrible perfumes.
Go with vinegar and you'll never go back.
Vinegar is also great to get rid of the fabric softener you put on your towels but shouldn't have.
Don't panic when you take the clothes out of the washer and they smell like pickles. All will be fine when they're dry.
If you want freshness, hang the clothes on a clothesline. I have been doing it for decades, in fact all my life. Clothes always smell fresh.
such a simple concept, yet everyone forgets about it.
wonder why????
all the fabric softner and dryer sheets can never compare to freshness.
Like the label on a lysol or air freshner bottles, there is always a picture of sheets hanging on a clothesline to tell the purchaser that their spray will smell like fresh.
hence, the clothesline
I also gave this same advice about the clothesline but many of us live where clotheslines are not allowed....I would love to have one. We often take drives out into the countryside - I love seeing the beautiful colors of the Amish and Mennonite laundry flapping in the breeze. I can still imagine in my mind the glorious frangrance of sheets, towels and t-shirts that have been dried by the sunshine.
If you want freshness, hang the clothes on a clothesline. I have been doing it for decades, in fact all my life. Clothes always smell fresh.
such a simple concept, yet everyone forgets about it.
wonder why????
all the fabric softner and dryer sheets can never compare to freshness.
Like the label on a lysol or air freshner bottles, there is always a picture of sheets hanging on a clothesline to tell the purchaser that their spray will smell like fresh.
hence, the clothesline
I agree, but not permitted in many developments ( including mine) these days... HOA's
Have you tried Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day? They have one called Baby Blossom that is supposed to be very gentle. I also like The Good Home Company, but the fragrance might be too much.
My sister is sensitve and uses Borax detergent. Of course what she is looking for is scent free but clean.I think many see scented with as smelling fresh ;really.
Ivory soap is wicked! My mom bought it when I was a child and my face turned beet red. It hurt really bad too much like a sunburn. The Dr. said it was a chemical burn and to never use Ivory. Years later my husband and I went on a vacation and stayed at a cheap hotel. I used the soap and sure enough my face felt burned. I peeled off the hotel label and underneath it was indeed Ivory.
yikes, I can second that. a little off topic, sorry.
I was 5 years old and told my Mother to "shut up", she grabbed the Ivory soap bar off the kitchen sink and put it in my mouth.
I have grown sons, so I am up there in age, I have never again in my life told her to shut up.
I also suggest hanging the clothes on a clothesline for freshness.
I am also going to try arm and hammer, it sounds good.
If you want freshness, hang the clothes on a clothesline. I have been doing it for decades, in fact all my life. Clothes always smell fresh.
such a simple concept, yet everyone forgets about it.
wonder why????
all the fabric softner and dryer sheets can never compare to freshness.
Like the label on a lysol or air freshner bottles, there is always a picture of sheets hanging on a clothesline to tell the purchaser that their spray will smell like fresh.
hence, the clothesline
Sadly, the clothesline is the worst thing you do for outdoor allergies because all the pollen gets on the clothes.
I used to hang my clothes out regularly until I learned my children had terrible outdoor allergies.
Heck, we couldn't even open the house windows until after Fall frost for years.
The best thing we ever did was invest in allergy shots. Finally, my children are no longer prisoners of their allergies.
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