How much fabric softener is unreasonable?

Any fabric softener is too much. Horrible stuff.

I'm surprised at the amount of people who hate fabric conditioner

Fabric conditioner is just chemicals that sits on your clothes giving off a scent. I stopped using it years ago as I don’t want my children to breathe in these harsh chemicals. There is NO WAY I would put my baby in a carrier that had a strong smell of fabric conditioner. Please put the carrier on a wash - I know it’s a pain but you really don’t want your baby to breathe in the harsh chemicals.

I stopped using it a couple of years ago, I liked the smell as I use washing powder and it’s not fragrances, used to put a capful in the drawer. But loads of our clothes are sports clothes and you get grease spots on them from the fabric softener so I just stopped for all the washing loads rather than having to fish through dirty washing to pick out the individual things that couldn’t be washed using it.
So none is the amount I use but I’m kind of sad about it as I must be one of the rare few that like the smell of it 🤣

After a few occasions where I've got migraines from putrid fabric conditioner, I first took the approach of putting a smelly worn t-shirt over the pillow (sweat is at least natural), and now take a spare pillow case to save me the worst.

Stopped using fabric softener a while ago after I saw how it gunks up the machine and pipes. I now use white vinegar instead.

I would re-wash it and let it dry outside.

Oh dear. I’ve just sold a hoodie on Vinted that I washed. I use a lovely ( I think) fabric conditioner. I hope the poor buyer doesn’t die from the awful thing that I’ve done.

This. It's been decades since I used it and that was a free sample!

I also hate overly fragranced laundry liquid. When you get used to low fragrance stuff you notice how much it stinks.

We stayed at a friend's house and realised my DC's pyjamas stunk of their bedding when we got home. And they hadn't even been excessive.

People think that if something smells very noticeably of fabric conditioner, it's clean.

I often think that those items you get from Vinted that stink so perfumed is where the person is a smoker and has tried to cover up the stink with one of those spray clothes freshener things. Some stuff I have had to bin after receiving it, but if it's not too bad then I give it a few washes and then the smell usually comes out after line drying it too. I agree though it is so disappointing when this happens.

none at all
dont like it

Horrible fabric conditioner is the unspoken downside of buying things from Vinted - my god people really overdo it, do their own clothes smell like that too??

In Sweden there’s unscented fabric conditioner, which is the only kind I’ve ever bought. Not that I’m super-averse to perfume, but the ones in laundry stuff are always horrible. I’ve only used FC with synthetics, when I used to wear polyester dresses. Even when I used it I used like 1/8 of the recommended amount, just to get the static out - so that would be my tip to anyone, cut down drastically! The smells from FC are neither good nor do they smell clean, they smell waxy and make people and their sheets smell waxy and oily. Awful stuff.

It sounds like the seller was trying to mask the smell of something else. I would be worried that they thought it smelt mouldy and we all know that mould/mildew can be dangerous to tiny babies. I would have to return it or bear the loss.

Never use it. It's horrible and the smell is overpowering.

If you don't want to wash it again , then hang it on the line outside .
Even better put it out in a light shower so it gets a natural rinse and dry outside.

We stayed in a holiday cottage in Northumberland a few years ago and the bedding had been drenched in fabric softener, it reeked. It was the first thing you smelled when you walked into any of the bedrooms and it got up my nose all night when I was asleep. Awful.

We don't use fabric conditioner at all and never have. We have soft water and don't use a tumble dryer. It's pointless stuff dreamt up by marketers which makes your textiles greasy and smelly and gunges up your machine. The fabcon companies want you to think that "reeks to high heaven of artificial flowers" = "clean".

And don't get me started on "scent balls".

I wouldn’t use a baby carrier that stank of fabric conditioner. The smell alone would overwhelm a baby but I would also wonder what it’s masking.

We don’t use the stuff as we live in a soft water area.

Never use the stuff. Waste of money and usually smells sickly sweet and unpleasant.

Fabric softener isn’t great for your clothes. All it does it coat them in chemicals. It doesn’t actually do much at all and I haven’t used it for years.

That being said, if I purchased something from Vinted I would 100% be washing it before use anyways. You never know what household it’s come from, how it was stored etc.

I use fabric softener and DH doesn't. I can always tell what I wash by the texture rather than the smell, although my current softener from Lidl smells divine.

Loathe the smell and feel of fabric conditioner so 'none' is the correct amount to use, as far as I'm concerned.

Ecover and M&S both do fragrance free fabric softeners.

I don’t use it as it’s not good for clothes.

Fabric softener definitely isn’t advised for baby carriers. If it smells strong to you imagine how strongly it smells to a teeny baby with their face near the fabric!

https://ergobaby.com/blog/post/how-to-wash-an-ergobaby-carrier#:~:text=Avoid%20bleach%20or%20fabric%20softeners,the%20fabric%20while%20it's%20damp.