To ask how you wash your knickers?

[LazyJayne]

Not the poo troll 😄💩

I have always washed mine on 40 with a general load (trousers, t-shirts etc).

I want to start washing my clothes at 30 to see if it keeps them looking newer for longer, but I’m not comfortable washing knickers and socks at that temperature.

I’ve had an initial investigate, but the jury seems to be out. Some say 30 is fine, some say 60 and others say you need to add a disinfectant.

I’m now not sure if I should have even been washing them with my other clothes at all!

What to do!?

I never wash anything at more than 30. I've been experimenting with cold washing, to save energy, and my clothes don't smell, still get clean, and I haven't had any upset stomachs, crotch rot or any other ailment that might have been contracted from inadequately washed laundry.

Non bio powder, fairy fabric conditioner on 30 or 40 degrees. However, and I've name changed for this (so it can't be connected to me!) I iron the gusset as I read that gives extra help with hygiene.

I wash literally everything at 30. I just bung them in with everything else. I use non bio liquid and vinegar instead of fabric softener.

Nearly everything at 30 here unless something unpleasant has happened or someone is ill.

Pleeeeeease, if you want to do it right, you MUST sterilise with UV. I'd be worried if I were you. I bet you undies smell...

I just throw them in with whatever I'm washing of a similar colour. Never thought about it that hard!

I wash them with bedding and towels at 60 degrees

chucked in a 30 degree general wash with everything else

I’m a underwear at 60 person, I just throw them in with towels or bedding that also gets washed at 60. Normal clothes 40.

40 wash for everything except bedding/towels which go in at 60.

@Laiste about the socks. A friend accidentally sprayed her DH cricket whites with Flash bleach instead of Vanish, and they came out spotless.
Might need an extra rinse tho.

For those who add vinegar, isn't there a risk that your fanjo might smell like and fish and chip shop? 🤔

For those who iron knickers, you need to get out more and find someone to help you take them off more often.

@Smorgasbordbaby my mother was the same when I had my own first home. She was horrified that after the boil wash, ironing etc ( which I didn’t do by the way) that I then did not air them in the airing cupboard in neat piles for at least 3 whole days. If you didn’t, apparently you would get a chill in your kidneys.
unless the laundry load included potty training toddlers, period pants or anyone with a stomach upset, I’ve done knickers on 30’ with non bio
Actually in the early days of motherhood in the early 80’s I had a twin tub so no idea of the temperature!

@StarlightLady no, the vinegar washes out so it doesn’t smell of anything. And you use white distilled vinegar rather than malt!

On the basis of period pants requiring a 20/30 wash I’d say any temp is fine. Unless you got something else going on down there. But I just bung normal pants in a normal whatever wash.

For those who iron knickers, you need to get out more and find someone to help you take them off more often.

Agreed 🤣. Was there more than one of us who posted about doing that!

30C is fine!

At 40° With the colour wash (no white knickers anymore).

but I do NOT wash my tea towels with the clothes.

I do all my washing on the short 40 degree wash. Everything in one. Apart from DHs work clothes (cow shite/ engine oil!)

30 is grand if you have a good machine. It doesn't seem to be a good cycle on my machine.

What's wrong with tea towels in with clothes ? In a normal wash load? I do the whole time, have done for years - not dead yet

You use white vinegar not malt vinegar!

I put them in with everything else, on a 30 wash. I don't have periods or Thrush these days, so it's fine

I throw my tea towels in with the dish cloths. They're washed at 60. Bedding at 60 usually.

At 30 with everything else, including teatowel and dishcloth if I am not about to put a towels/bedding wash on straight after.

Cold prewash if you've bled on them. Then 60C.

I think my mum was shocked to discover that hundreds of teenage girls hadn't been killed or seriously maimed by the school's lackadaisical approach to washing standards. I'm sure she was tempted to buy me enough underwear to last till I came home so she could wash it to her standards. I never told her that on occasion we would wear each other's (clean!) knickers because she would probably faint.
She's also a fan of the vest and kidney warming knickers until it was at least 20° outside. I think this came from living in a cold draughty house as a child though rather than some perceived health benefit.