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Between stains, spills, grime, and gunk, the laundry struggle is real. Good news—today, everyone is sharing helpful laundry tips that lighten your load come laundry day. DIY solutions, quick tips, and expert advice, all rolled into one. These hacks are perfect for those who want to breeze through batches. Let’s talk 7 hacks that will change the way you do laundry, curated by your friends at Charlie’s Soap.
1. Use a Mesh Laundry Bag for Socks
If you’re sick and tired of coming up with single socks at the end of wash day, this hack is for you. Mesh laundry bags aren’t just for delicates and undergarments. You can use these laundry bags to keep socks paired together through the wash cycle. For added convenience, keep the mesh bag with your laundry hamper. Throughout the week, simply add dirty socks directly to the mesh bag. This keeps you from meticulous sock-sorting on laundry day. Just like that, say goodbye to single socks.
2. Make an All-Purpose Stain-Fighting Paste
When dealing with tough stains, you need something that really packs a punch. It’s tempting to toss your stained garments in to soak with some chlorine bleach, but that comes with its own set of problems. Regular bleach requires careful handling, as you’ll want to avoid direct skin contact and inhalation. Additionally, chlorine bleach can cause significant damage to delicate fabrics and colors.
For the power of regular bleach without the chemical exposure, try an alternative like oxygen bleach. With Charlie’s Soap non-chlorine oxygen bleach, you can easily pre-treat intensive stains. Color-safe and gentle on delicate fabrics, Charlie’s oxygen bleach targets and lifts difficult stains. As little as half a tablespoon in your next load can help restore colors and eliminate stains. For stubborn stains, you can easily create a concentrated paste to use as a pretreatment. Simply mix 2 parts oxygen bleach to 1 part water, creating a thick paste. Rub this paste onto the stained areas and allow it to sit for ten minutes before washing.
If you want super easy stain removal, check out Charlie’s pre-spray. With the convenience of a spray bottle, our pre-spray tackles tough stains with little extra effort.
3. Toss Hand-Wash Items in the Salad Spinner
Hand-washing can be a big hassle for those who don’t do it very often. A surprise solution—a small kitchen appliance. Salad spinners are much gentler than even gentle cycles on a washer, so they’re perfect for washing delicate fabrics.
Before you begin, you’ll want to be sure that your salad spinner is completely clean. Then, add your garment, a bit of water, and a tablespoon of powerful detergent. We recommend Charlie’s liquid laundry detergent. Spin the clothes thoroughly to clean, then rinse in the sink. For a speedier air-dry, you can add the wet clothes to a cleaned and dried salad spinner and spin the clothes dry.
4. Take Note of Air-Dry Items with Dry-Erase Markers
Keeping track of air-dry only items can turn into a big hassle, particularly for those with a heavy laundry schedule. Rather than relying on memory, consider jotting the items down. Using a dry erase marker, you can write directly on the surface of the washer. Just make a note of items you need to remove. At the end of the wash cycle, you can easily wipe the marker away. If you’d rather not write on the washer, you can also mount a small dry erase board nearby.
5. Upgrade to Dryer Balls
Many use dryer sheets to reduce static cling and wrinkles during the dry cycle. However, these dryer sheets are often single-use. That means you burn through dryer sheets, fast. Plus, regular dryer sheets are usually made with damaging chemicals like artificial fragrances. These abrasives leave residue on your clothes, which means bad news—particularly for those with allergies, sensitive skin, or asthma.
If you’re tired of tossing dryer sheets, switch to a reusable, scentless alternative. Dryer balls have become a new favorite, since they offer all of the benefits of dryer sheets with none of the downsides. They’re long-lasting and completely reusable, so you can even leave them in your dryer for your next load. For dryer balls that are guaranteed to be shed-free and ultra-durable, check out Charlie’s Soap heat-resistant dryer balls. They’re sustainably-made and fragrance-free. For an extra, gentle scent, you can even add a few drops of your favorite essential oil.
6. Add a Clean Towel to Drying Clothes
This genius hack is designed to cut down on dry time. Before you start a load in the dryer, add a clean, dry towel. The towel picks up excess moisture in the clothes, making them dry faster. This hack may also make your laundry extra-soft and wrinkle-free. For bulky items, sheets, dishcloths, and towels, this hack could cut down on dry time considerably.
7. Unwrinkle Clothes with Ice Cubes
Some clothes seem to attract wrinkles like the plague. Whether you iron it or not, you may pull a shirt from the closet to find it covered in wrinkles. With this hack, you don’t need an iron to fight wrinkles fast.
Toss the wrinkled clothes into the dryer with a few ice cubes, then set the cycle to a quick dry cycle. As the ice cubes melt, they create moisture. Combined with the heat from the dryer, this moisture gets your clothes completely wrinkle-free.
Charlie’s Soap: the Ultimate Laundry Hack
Keeping up with laundry can be a challenge. Charlie’s Soap is here to help. From our stain solutions to our laundry detergents, Charlie’s Soap promises cleaning solutions for all your laundry conundrums. With a little Charlie’s Soap, you can breeze through laundry day and get back to doing literally anything else. That’s why the Charlie’s Soap clean means a clean, for life.
