The Best Way to Wash Your Bedding Ever
by
BrightNest
(IC: blogger)
You spend a third of your life wrapped up in your sheets like a burrito. That makes it really important to clean them! Why? Because while you’re feeling snugly and catching some Zs, your body releases things like sweat, drool and dead skin cells. This can quickly lead to funky smells and allergy-inducing dust mites, so clean your sheets and pillowcases using this awesome (and easy) process.
1. Frequency. If you’re an extremely fastidious person (or the paragraph above really grossed you out), then we recommend washing your bedding every week. However, washing every two weeks is totally acceptable and will keep your…ahem…bed residue at pretty low levels. Tip: If you’re prone to acne, definitely wash your pillowcases every week (or even twice a week!).
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Published April 7th, 2014 11:25 AM
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Barbara Aubrey on Nov 25, 2014Good grief even back in the 30s when Mom was reeling from the depression and washing was a tub of water and scrub board, every day a clean top sheet and the existing top sheet became the bottom sheet - must confess I let mine go to three times a week and I an NOT a factitious house cleaner but we learned even in school, to bath more than once a week, know and use the 5 brushes, maintain a clean bed and before any other clothing buy good supportive shoes as the basics to a healthy life and so changing bed linens once a week or oh my, every two weeks blows my mind - unless you are assuming everyone takes a shower before bed time.
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Sylvia Picone on Oct 06, 2016You never want to wash your sheets in hot water. Hot water causes pilling of the sheets. Using vinegar in the rinse should kill any germs. Yes you can add it to the fabric softener dispenser since the vinegar is the fabric softener.
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Melinda Graves on Dec 07, 2016How much vinegar to each load? Thank you
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Sylvia Picone on Dec 07, 2016I never measured but I guess I ad approximately one quarter cup
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