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Default OT - low temperature wash

On 17/07/2015 11:33, David wrote:
The recommended wash these days for clothes is low temperature - 30C to
35C I think - and this is often quite a quick wash.


Detergents work down to below 15C so a cold water wash is possible - and
in the household this is what is used 95% of the time.

Concerns have been expressed, however, from time to time, over the low
temperature not killing bugs/germs/whatever.


Once you have fully dried the clothes on an outside line very little of
anything will have survived the wash/dry.


Sometimes a recommendation to
add a disinfectant to a wash from time to time.


The only reason that manufactures recommend this is to sell more product!




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