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?

Gym gear, towels and bed sheets at 60, clothes at 40.

What bacteria are you all so worried about killing? Given that you probably can ever get the bacteria off your skin.

Most things at 30
Usually whites on 40
Bedding 60

i do this too

I do most things at 50, bedding at 70, towels 60, delicates 30.

Washing and machine end up smelling horrible if I use 30
Clothes I do on 40
Bedding and towels 60

I wash everything on cold ( my machine does cold, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 75 and 90 degrees) EXCEPT:

Towels, sheets, white loads - 60 degrees
Pet bedding - 75 degrees
If there’s a bug/ flu in the home then 60-75 degrees depending on the mat.

I line dry everything, I do have a dryer but never use it.

I wash normal clothes at 40. Plain cotton items, cheap clothes, socks and pants, kids clothes and school uniform, towels. I only wash at 30 if the label says I have to. Most of our “nice” clothes are labelled wash at 30 do not tumble, so they go in a separate wash and get hung up on the rack to dry.

I do this too.

Towels - 90
Underwear - 40
Everything else 30

Towels we use powder and fabric conditioner, underwear and everything else we use anti bacterial cleanser instead of powder.

40 on the eco setting - which has less agitation. Takes almost 4h though.
The fact that my machine doesn't have a 30 eco setting makes me wonder if it's hot enough to clean properly.

I am pretty much on to 30 but bedding and towels 60. I find a lot of modern fabrics bobble/shrink/generally ruin when I put it on a 40. Tip I would say is not to overload the machine, to ensure the water really soaks up the whole fabric and gets inbetween.

40 or 60
Persil bio powder and dettol laundry sanitiser (for any smelly gym clothes)

I grew up with washing clothes in cold water. It's always made me laugh how much cold water washing terrifies Brits.

I wash at 20 or 30. I have some lovely white cotton bed linen that might get 40 degrees if I'm feeling wasteful extravagant

Generally 40 (sometimes 30 moreso if not dirty/soiled as such but do not a wash to refresh them) and then 60 for bedding and towels and cleaning cloths etc. As far as I have noticed no issues with smells etc. I will treat stains with stain remover ecover pen and for whites I will just do only white item wash with the pink stuff whites stain remover / brightener powder which has kept them looking good. I use bio detergent/ colour detergent also which think helps with stains and keeping whites.

Towels/Bedding/Tea towels/Bath mats - 60
Everything else 40,
30 did not get the smells out of clothes, especially teen school shirts/gym kits.

I do all clothes at 30. Bedding and throws at 40. Towels/cleaning cloths/ tea towels at 60.

Yeah I usually use 30, maybe 40 if it's a dirty load and the occasional 60 for bedsheets. Most things get hung on the line, everything comes in smelling fresh after a few hours of being blasted by fresh Atlantic air.

Clothes at 40, sheets and towels 60 except son's sheets and towels which go in on the hygiene steam/ extra long annihilation setting !

Towels, bedding and dish cloths at 60. DH's work clothes at 60 and all my clothes at 40.

Hmm. I wash my period pants on a cold wash. most things at 30. Isn’t it the soap cleaning the clothes not the temperature?

Do you wash your hands in cold water?

I wash colours at 40 degrees and whites and sheets/towels at 60 degrees. I've tried washing at 30 degrees but the stains don't come out even with a scoop of Oxi in the wash.

Wash everything cold. Always have. My sister always has, my mum always has.
Nobody stinks or has any diseases from ‘bodily fluids’ 😂

Everything at 40 here. 40⁰ is above body temperature so should dissolve and remove body fluids and many stains that much better.

I use biological washing powder.