Do You Use Downey When You Do The Wash. Does It Work Well.

I Am Sick Of My Clothes Coming Out A Mess After I Do The Wash.
I Think I Will Try Downey.

get the "ball" so you can drop it in the washer when it starts.

:D

just never thought I'd be giving laundry advice on a political website.

Clothes are so much softer than with dryer sheets.

If you use liquid, be careful. Too much is too much. My mother used to use so much the towel slid off your body before it could absorb the shower water.

Its glossy and it smells great. :) :bounce:

The dryer sheets discolored my dark bedsheets, etc., and so switched to liquid. Ball works great, better than the dispenser in the machine.

But, do not use it or any liquid softener on towels, they don't stay fluffy and do feel a tad greasy. Don't know why clothes don't and towels do, but there it is. I keep dryer sheets for the towels.

The intricacies of laundry....

Try using white vineegar in your wash in place of Downey during rinse cycle. It's less costly and more environmentally friendly.

Especially unncessacry ones. I haven't use dfabric softener for environmetnal reasons for years and years, and my clothes are all just fine, no static, no whatever-the-hell-it-is people think they avoid by using downy, etc.

All that crap is is earth-destroying selfishness; nasty checmicals; more Americans killing the world; more reason the rest of the world canhate us for our idiocy.

Use biodegradable soap, not so much hto water, and no fabric softener. Get a good detergent, or add vinegar as grandmanbear says, and you don't need all that earth-polluting filth.

And don't use bleach, either. Use a nice earth-friendly hydrogen-peroxide based bleach if you need it.

Of all the waste that america produces, I think the fabric softeners, plastic plates and cups, plastic straws, and non-biodegradable detergents are the ones thatarethe most offensive, because they're the least necessary, but seemingly the most popular pollutants being used by a lazy, misinformed America.

Hot water and heat RUIN clothes. Unless you're employed such that your clothes get utterly seriously filthy, then most people overwash their clothes. We tend to over-wash, over dry and destroy our clothing.

Most soaps eventually ruin clothes as well.

Wash in cold water on delicate settings, use mild soaps and sparingly. Some of the soaps for baby clothes are great. Bleach only only only if you must, and sparingly.

Fabric softeners? Don't need them if you aren't over processing. The dryer sheets, especially the cheap ones, in bulk are the best, leaving the least amount of residue.

Avoid the dryer if at all possible. Hanging on the line really treats the clothes far nicer. If you MUST put things in the dryer, do it on the lowest setting, delicates if possible...

Your clothes, if treated well, will last much much longer if you stop subjecting them to heat and chemicals.

I just like the way it makes my clothes smell. :)