![]() ![]() Personal products – deodorant, perfume/cologne, lotions, body butter, oils, creams, hair products, etc. Hard water – minerals in hard water build-up in fabrics over time.ĭetergent residue – detergent not being thoroughly rinsed from the fabric during washing.įabric softener – liquid fabric softener coats fibers to soften them, often leading to loss of absorption and odor in fabric. There are a variety of things that can cause build-up and residue in your clothes and linens. When You Need a Strip Wash Build-up of Soap and Oil Residue This deep cleaning method is useful if your laundry isn’t smelling fresh, or you are having problems with dingy or dirty looking laundry. Stripping your laundry is a way to break down the build-up caused by mineral deposits, laundry detergent, fabric softener, body oils, bacteria, and other gross things you don’t want lurking about. I decided to give this stripping your laundry thing a try with my smelly towels and bedsheets and share the results with you here. So I took a cruise around Pinterest to see if anyone was stripping other things besides diapers, and sure enough, I found plenty of people telling how to strip clothes, bedsheets, stinky towels, workout clothes, and underwear – there’s some really gross stuff about laundering underwear by the way… I never had issues with my cloth diapers, so I have never done a stripping, but it got me to thinking about the rest of my laundry and if stripping could work for other stuff too. Years ago, when my kids were babies, we dabbled a bit with cloth diapering and I remembered the recommendations on the various cloth diapering forums to do a stripping if you had stink problems. I needed to figure out how to get all of my laundry to smell good again. My towels had a mildew smell, my bedsheets wouldn’t smell fresh even after washing, my kids’ play clothes had funky smells, and our dogs’ bedding reeked after washing too. ![]() I recently started noticing problems with my laundry not getting as clean as I would prefer.
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