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1 posted on 08/21/2025 12:51:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
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wash cycle length that found colder and shorter is better for clothes

Common sense, right?

2 posted on 08/21/2025 12:54:31 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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The rule of thumb I was taught over 50 years ago was colors in cold and whites in hot.

Seems to still be true.

3 posted on 08/21/2025 12:54:56 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Procter & Gamble funded a study of wash cycle length that found colder and shorter is better for clothes.

Duh.

4 posted on 08/21/2025 12:57:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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More wash = more wear.
This is Phd. work?


6 posted on 08/21/2025 12:57:26 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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Sheets and towels get long and hot. With borax.
7 posted on 08/21/2025 12:59:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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I think all of my clothes have been “cold wash” for many years now. I don’t get really dirty very often. It’s not like the old days of dirt and sweat. It’s more like getting the dust off.


8 posted on 08/21/2025 12:59:41 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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I will sleep so much better tonight knowing this old truism is now borne out by real science.


13 posted on 08/21/2025 1:05:55 PM PDT by oldplayer
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As soon as I see “science says” in a title, I prepare myself to see something stupid.


15 posted on 08/21/2025 1:10:00 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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I wash everything in cold all year long, except for a few times where I’ll separate my whites and wash them in hot.

My clothes last for years.


19 posted on 08/21/2025 1:12:09 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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My thought is what reason would the cabal have to make us think it’s better to wash clothes in cold water. I have an idea or two.

The truth is probably the opposite.


22 posted on 08/21/2025 1:17:10 PM PDT by reasonisfaith
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Fabric dye density and lifespan is separate from issues like germs and bacteria in the wash.

And the more heat the better for germs and bacteria - and soiling.

SOAK because agitation wears fabric. Cold is fine for a quick freshening, but warm to hot cleans better.

23 posted on 08/21/2025 1:20:07 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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Except in the winter, our well water is about 50.

I use the warm cycle.


25 posted on 08/21/2025 1:22:03 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Longer lasting cloths? No thanks.

I’m still wearing jeans and T-shirts that I bought in the 1990s. I wish they’d wear out so I would have to go shopping.;-)


26 posted on 08/21/2025 1:23:29 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Remember this 2016 ad

From AI:

A commercial for Qiaobi laundry detergent showed a Chinese woman putting laundry into a machine, then a Black man with paint splatters appearing. She stuffs the detergent into his mouth, shoves him into the washing machine, and then a clean, fair-skinned Asian man emerges.

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27 posted on 08/21/2025 1:23:47 PM PDT by DFG
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My wife swears most wear comes from drying. She dries on low and hangs to finish.

Of course, we live in a desert where a wet pair of blue jeans will dry in 30 minutes.


28 posted on 08/21/2025 1:25:08 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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In old days England used to have a cohort of good scientists.
Now, it’s clear what English scientists are doing...


31 posted on 08/21/2025 1:34:11 PM PDT by leopud
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OK so your cloths will last longer, but sport ground-in dirt and bacteria - a greenies delight.


32 posted on 08/21/2025 1:35:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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It seems obvious that cold, short cycles will reduce wear and tear on clothes. It also seems obvious that it will result in less effective cleaning of those clothes.


39 posted on 08/21/2025 1:41:24 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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"found colder and shorter is better for clothes"


Well, DUH... we've known that since.. forever?!>.
40 posted on 08/21/2025 1:55:24 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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What the soap manufacturers are NOT telling you is that “cold” wash is *NOT* straight tap cold.

“Cold” wash means 65*F. That’s about 18*C. That’s why so many washers now have a “cold” setting AND a “tap cold”. The “cold” setting mixes hot water with the tap cold to warm it to 65*


42 posted on 08/21/2025 1:58:09 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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