Can we talk about fabric softener?

July 08, 2022, 09:33 AM

You can make anti-static "balls" out of 100% wool yarn or you can buy them to throw in your dryer. Fabric softener is a waste of $$ if you ask me. The detergent already has "fragrances" is you like that sort of thing.

July 08, 2022, 09:50 AM

PASig

We have never used it

July 08, 2022, 09:55 AM

vthoky

quote:
Originally posted by mrvmax:
You can make anti-static "balls" out of 100% wool yarn or you can buy them to throw in your dryer. Fabric softener is a waste of $$ if you ask me. The detergent already has "fragrances" is you like that sort of thing.

I'm curious about these antistatic balls -- like these?

As for the fragrance, I'm totally fine without my shirts smelling like, well, the laundry aisle at the grocery store.

I worked at a grocery store a long time ago and spent way too much time around that scent. Eww.

July 08, 2022, 10:07 AM

bendable

Soap and fabric softener,
75% of the customers use 35% too much of both

In the newer machines.

An easy test is
Pull three towels off the shelf.
Put them in the washer,with out soap
Let it agitate,

If suds show up you are using way too much soap

July 08, 2022, 10:30 AM

radioman

quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Soap and fabric softener,
75% of the customers use 35% too much of both

In the newer machines.

An easy test is
Pull three towels off the shelf.
Put them in the washer,with out soap
Let it agitate,

If suds show up you are using way too much soap

that's why I stopped using those stupid Tide Pods. Too much soap. I'd rather measure it myself.

July 08, 2022, 10:50 AM

Rey HRH

The apartment we live in has that kind of washer. I also saw the gunk that was in there and cleaned it out. I pointed the button to my wife to press when there's softener being used.

After a while, I see the gunk building up again and asked my wife if she is pressing the button and she said yes. So, I let it go.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

July 08, 2022, 11:00 AM

Gustofer

I'll just leave this here. Static cling is the least of the worries.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404651/

July 08, 2022, 11:15 AM

mrvmax

quote:
Originally posted by vthoky:
quote:
Originally posted by mrvmax:
You can make anti-static "balls" out of 100% wool yarn or you can buy them to throw in your dryer. Fabric softener is a waste of $$ if you ask me. The detergent already has "fragrances" is you like that sort of thing.

I'm curious about these antistatic balls -- like these?

As for the fragrance, I'm totally fine without my shirts smelling like, well, the laundry aisle at the grocery store. I worked at a grocery store a long time ago and spent way too much time around that scent. Eww.

Those are what I use although the spousal unit has also made her own from wool yarn.

July 08, 2022, 11:42 AM

ridewv

Fabric "softeners" are something I learned to never use. They break down fabrics which is bad enough, and as posted all those fibers go to the sewer, or worse in my case to the septic.