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Depending on your budget, the dirtiness of your clothes, and the colors you’re washing in a load. What your mind shrinking, you will adjust the temperature accordingly. Hot water costs more, and wears out the fibers faster. Super dirty clothes need hot water to kill more bacteria, but stubborn stains (like blood, fellow ladies can relate) will need cold water. Laundry is easy
Most people use warm water for casual loads. I use hot because | notice it helps a lot more with odors. I don’t value my clothes ‘ appearance, and I’m not on a tight budget myself.
Don’t let your laundry sit for a long time after washing. If you let your laundry sit too long in the washer and it smells funky, you want to wash it hot or extra hot to kill mildew. If you wear white socks, you can throw them in with white towels. White sheets and bleach them in a hot setting. The sanitary setting is your best friend here.
If you have whites or light-colored articles you want to throw in with bright red articles. You may want to wash it cold to warm to avoid the bleeding of colors into one another. Though I haven’t had this ever happen to me. I’m guilty of washing my colored clothes ridiculously hot with whites.
Try not to wash too much at once. Do an empty load with very hot water and bleach once a month to clean the washer. Washers tend to harbor a lot of bacteria. If you’re washing at a low temperature often, which is why I separate my underwear and wash them hot. (this isn’t typical, just a personal preference of mine.
Disinfecting
If you suffer from frequent infections down there, this is a well-known contributor so especially if you’re a lady, [not that men don’t get infections, the frequency is just higher in women], be extra cautious with this if you find yourself to be susceptible to these things). For detergent, there are instructions on the label. For how much you should fill the cap for the size of each load. If you have a High Efficiency (HE) washer, use a detergent that has HE on the label. Too much detergent gunks up the machine, so be careful. Wash your hands after transferring your clothes to the dryer after cold, very dirty loads. Most bacteria are actually killed in the drying process. If you have a fungal outbreak, for example, athletes foot, wash socks and bedding separately on a sanitary/ very hot setting with bleach. The soil level is the dirtiness of your clothes. The higher the soil level selected, the more vigorous your clothes will be washed. You only really need to worry about the settings on the dial if you’re switching between normal, large load and sanitary (which is how
“very hot” is unlocked on most washers I’ve used). Typical loads just use the normal setting. It depends highly on your washers options honestly.
Every washer is different.
Also also: if you’re washing delicate articles, like lingerie or hats, do cold to warm on a delicate setting, and hang to dry, or dry on a low temperature delicate setting as well.
To answer the questions about whites: go by what the large majority of the clothing piece appears to be for bleaching, unless it’s something you deeply value and don’t want to risk damaging whatsoever. I’ve bleached my white socks with gray tips and blue/white logos on them for months and have noticed no difference in the appearance of them whatsoever. Basically, if you don’t want the white on certain clothes to have a red hue to them, don’t wash them with bright red articles on a hot or very hot temperature. The temperature is what makes colors bleed together.
Cold or warm water honestly won’t make colors bleed. Hot water doesn’t 99 percent of the time from my experience. This is my first time actually researching laundry and writing about it, so I was not able to completely write for your given word count. I tried my best. Thankyou for this opportunity.
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