Do you wash everything at 30?

[FindingMeno]

It seems pretty much everything now says to wash at 30°.
Do you follow this, and are you finding clothes are still stained/ have odours? Or that your washing machine smells?
I am wondering if washing on a 40° instead will solve this or whether it will ruin things.
I'm not sure if the 30° is for environmental reasons or because so much clothing is particularly delicate lately.
I do service washes and the odd hotter wash for towels etc, and it seems to make no difference what products I use.
Any wisdom to share please?

I wash regualar clothes at 40, 30 does nothing ime

I do a couple of loads a week, at 60c with Fairy and never have any issues with nasty smells.

On our machine the shortest cycle is 60 so do most things at that. X

I do every day washing at 30
If it's more stained or smelly, I wash at 40
Bedsheets and towels at 60

Was always 40. Then someone posted that the mixed fabrics (I think) option at 30 on the eco setting used the least electricity. So switched to that and can't see any difference. I'll do tea towels etc on a hotter wash.

I wash everything at 30, ive no ideas if it would be better on a higher heat, but everything is always clean and smells nice.
In Australia it's actually really common to wash everything on a cold wash! I know my sister does this and it's seems much more the norm there.

Towels, bedding, pants, 100% cotton items - 60
Everything else - 40

I wouldn't consider 30 to be clean enough.

I went through a phase of washing everything at 30°, stuck at it for a while and then realised it just wasn’t doing quite enough.

now 85% of washing goes through at 40°, sportswear usually 30° but every few washes I blast that though on a 40° too. Towels and bath mats, tea towels and sometimes bedding goes through on a 60°.

Pretty much everything at 40°

Including bedding & towels and I line dry for most of the year.

I wash tea towels & dish cloths as a separate wash after a soak in dettol laundry cleanse.

occasionally I'll throw a Dr Beckmans 'whiter than white' sachet in with the white bedding & a (usually coffee!) stained t shirt, but other than that I use pods. Easy & do a good job!

Mostly. Sometimes use 60° for bedding and towels but not always.

Occasional run a 90° wash with tea towels and dishcloths with a big squirt of bleach but that’s more for the machine than for the cloths, tbh.

That’s too high for some fabrics

I wash most things at 30, they are fine. I usually pretreat stains. Towels, tea towels, cotton bedding at 60. I find towels go smelly if washed repeatedly at 30, plus I think it helps clean the washing machine to do a few hot washes. I do a self cleaning hot cycle every now and then too. It seems to work.

My dresses and sometimes gym kit go in the super cold wash to preserve the colours. Delicates, ie nice knickers tops and my gym kit in the delicate wash at 30. Woolens in the wool wash. Bedding, white or pale socks and husbands white work tshirts go in the white wash turned up to 90 same for tea towels and dish and floor cloths. Towels go in at 60. Dark pants socks and tshirts and husbands gym kit go in eco wash. I separate a lot! I also run a really hit clean cycle through the machine every 30 washes and use a calgon type tablet regularly. We have solar panels so I'm not worried about electricity costs.

I find tops started to smell after a few consecutive 30° washes. Aparently this is a build up of bacteria, that isn't killed at 30. I still do mainly 30 washes, but change to 40 every 3-4 washes, seems to have solved the problem.

I do pretty much everything apart from towels and bedding at 30 with no issues.

I occasionally do a 90degree wash to clean the machine. But the biggest thing that's stopped my machine smelling is to move to loose powder and dose the machine properly rather than use pods. Most pods have way too much detergent, which lingers in the machine pipes, gunking it up and harbouring bacteria. You probably need a lot less detergent than you think you do!

That’s what I do. I can’t imagine washing armpit and crotch clothes in 30 unless delicate. It’s not even body temperature. It’s more or less just barely lukewarm water.

DH does the laundry - most stuff is washed at 30°. Bath towels are washed mostly on a 40°, ocassionally a 60°

White bedding is washed at 90° - we've had our sets for years, they come up beautiful. Coloured bedding is washed at 60°

He uses powder and soda crystals (hard water) and white vinegar instead of fabric softener but only on towels.

As the advert says "what a load of malarkey". Maybe its my washing machine, but any stain that's more than trivial never comes out at 40, let alone 30, so its 40 for most washes but 60 for serious stuff. I do the washes at night on a timer. I'm all for economy and ecology but for God's sake if I wash at 30 I'd have to do it all twice over. It's all emperor's new clothes if you ask me.

If I have to wash something on 30 that isn’t woollen I put some dettol washing disinfectant in.

as PP said, I’ve gone away from liquid pods and back to powder (half the dose as full dose I find far too much). Pods and some liquid detergent smell funny to me. I am not happy at seeing so many washing liquids on the supermarket shelves. It feels like they’re taking over. Powder lasts ages and the boxes are cardboard. I’d get through a bottle of washing liquid in no time and then you’re stuck with a big plastic bottle.

we usually use the eco setting of the machine which analyses (how?) the dirtiness of the water and adjust temp accordingly.

Colours & darks at 20, towels, whites & lights at 30, bedding at 60.

NZ & Australia have been washing things in cold water since forever. It works perfectly fine.

I used to but certain clothes still had smelly pits. I now wash everything at 40 and it's stopped.

30 = new jeans, and knitwear.
40 = everyday washing.
60 = tea towels, towels and bedding.

Why nonsense- so much better for the clothes, and mainly the environment. I wash towels at 50 so it gives the washing machine a good clean at the same time.

Nothing washes properly at 30. it’s marketing and it obviously works as people do it. But it doesn’t actually work with laundry. 40 minimum. Washing clothes in lukewarm water doesn’t cut it.