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Post# 937288   5/9/2017 at 05:20 (2,515 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )   |   | |
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#7 really made me laugh. The bedsheets on our bed right now are at least 10 years old. Yes, we do have seasonal bedding, but hot water & repeated washing do not cause that much wear & tear IMO. CLICK HERE TO GO TO polkanut's LINK |
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Post# 937289 , Reply# 1   5/9/2017 at 05:39 (2,515 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Well done advertising, but advertising. And total nonsense at that. I've got comfortable Egyptian cotton sheets on our bed which I bought new in the 1980s at Macy's when I was student teaching in the 'States. OK, we rotate our sheets, but still - washed in 145F water with good detergent, never fabric softener (I still am not convinced it's useful) and rinsed thoroughly then either line dried or tumble-dried (for years in Germany after a 2800rpm spin) and still comfortable and not the least bit religious*. Hmm - I don't do fitted sheets. Never could stand them. To this day I can't figure out how to fold them for storage properly and it bugs me.
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Post# 937318 , Reply# 3   5/9/2017 at 10:01 (2,515 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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There are some fabric softeners which advertise themselves as being anti-microbial. I highly doubt (OK, I am certain) that baby clothes which have either been dryed at the high heat of a tumbler dryer completely or been hung in the sunlight* for longer than 20 minutes have fewer microbes than after being dosed with 1970's fabric softeners.
Weren't fabric softeners mainly to make up for lousy rinsing and itchy-scratchy, nasty synthetics?
*Having enjoyed many holidays with my Aunt on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, I am not quite sure you have personal familiarity with the star we orbit./snark |
Post# 937324 , Reply# 4   5/9/2017 at 10:28 (2,515 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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Oh, I wouldn't say that. As far as I know, I am composed of stardust! ;-) |
Post# 937333 , Reply# 5   5/9/2017 at 10:51 (2,515 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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going to the schoolhouse (it was literally the back of someone's house) on a wee little island with my aunt one visit and all the children were marching naked around a sunlamp. OK - the Scot in me gave me my more-stubborn-than-a-block-of-granite-never-give-in-never-give-up Calcedonian nature. To the great annoyance of some of the Imperial Queens. But my carrot-top mother blamed the red hair, green eyes and freckles on the one Irish grandmother right up until I actually got to Scotland...where my entire clan is as rusted and speckled as am I...and the entire Irish wing are Black Irish. Oh, well, I do go out into the open without sunscreen in November, December, January and sometimes, even into late February. |
Post# 937366 , Reply# 8   5/9/2017 at 13:58 (2,514 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 937624 , Reply# 10   5/10/2017 at 22:00 (2,513 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Once it was discovered and what it did, question remained how to get the health benefits. Where or when sunlight was plentiful mothers were constantly admonishing their children to "go out and play in the sunshine". Infants were taken out for airings in their prams to get the same benefit. In fact it often was a very common thing to leave one's infant parked in his/her pram outside to get air and sun.
The latter is still common enough in European countries apparently as several years a go a couple from across the pond left their infant outdoors pram while they were inside a restaurant. Local NYC police were called about the "abandoned" baby, the couple were charged and infant put into care. www.nytimes.com/1997/05/15/nyregi... Where sunlight wasn't enough, and or to pile on, there was the dreaded cod liver oil! *LOL* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_liver_... If you read vintage laundry guides from say 1950 or before "cod liver oil" stain removal appears frequently, especially were it concerns baby or child laundry. |
Post# 937627 , Reply# 11   5/10/2017 at 22:08 (2,513 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Are likely related to their containing quaternary ammonium compounds.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary... Though one wonders at the strength of such properties if the product is not clearly marketed and tested as being "antibacterial". That is we know hygiene rinses like those offered by Persil and others are "antibacterial" if used as directed. That is because they are tested, developed, marketed and approved as such. Have never seen Downy or any other fabric softener even mention any claims of antibacterial properties. Am sure of P&G, Unilever and the others could get away with such claims they would not waste time including in marketing. |
Post# 937628 , Reply# 12   5/10/2017 at 22:09 (2,513 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 937645 , Reply# 13   5/11/2017 at 01:20 (2,513 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 937655 , Reply# 14   5/11/2017 at 02:29 (2,513 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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In Germany there are softeners and hygiene rinses in one available like this Impresan "Hygiene Weichspüler".
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