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To ask how you wash period pants

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mcdonaldsfortea · 06/07/2023 21:48

New to this game. Weren't around when I was young and DD has started. I don't want to wash each pair separately but I don't want to put them in with everything else? Do I pop them in a separate bag in the laundry basket and wait til the end of the week and bung them in together? Or leave them all
Soaking in a bucket?

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rcat74 · 06/07/2023 22:53

I put them in the dark wash ( they are all black) and tumble dry them. I know I’m doing it all wrong but they are fine!

Zarah123 · 06/07/2023 22:56

ChuckMater · 06/07/2023 22:50

I don't understand why everyone's saying Rinse in cold water? They Rinse better in warm

I rinse in warm water then leave them to one side and pop them in with a dark wash load within the next day or so. Don't use fabric conditioner if your period pants are in there as it effects the future absorbance.

Warm water cooks stains. Fine to wash with warm water after a cold rinse to get stains out.

In fact, If often reuse the pants after hand washing, and then wash at the end of my period.

FiddleLeaf · 06/07/2023 22:56

I rinse them when changing over then chuck in the washing machine & normally wash on 30 with my usual detergent. I’ve been using them for over 3 years and would never go back to the cup or tampons.

caringcarer · 06/07/2023 23:01

Soak in cold salted water, then bung them in the washing machine with other whites on a hot wash. If black then soak in salted water then they go in machine with colours.

waterlego · 06/07/2023 23:03

I use a cup and period pants.

The cup gets rinsed a few times during the period and then a warm and soapy wash at the end of the period. I don’t sterilise it.

Period pants I don’t soak or rinse, just put them in the machine with other dark things- socks, my gym kit etc. Washed at 30 or 40 with normal laundry detergent and some of that laundry sanitizer stuff if I’ve got some.

Seems to work for me. Nothing smells and I don’t get infections. The pants probably have some stains but they’re black so I can’t tell 🤷🏼‍♀️

Fuckitydoodah · 06/07/2023 23:03

I've got heavy periods so I always rinse mine in the bath after use. I feel like there would be a lot of blood sloshing about the machine otherwise. I then keep them in a carrier bag until I next do a dark wash, which is only ever about 2 days max.

I've only used at night so far. They're a bit like wearing a nappy (wuka heavy flow night time ones). So I don't want to wear in the day. What ones are people with heavy flow using in the day? Sorry to hijack the thread.

angelikacpickles · 06/07/2023 23:10

DD rinses hers in the bath and I have a little plastic basket on the end of the bath for her to put them once rinsed. I wash them for her when there are a few. I don't put them in with regular washing because I use fabric softener and you are not supposed to use it on period pants.

noworklifebalance · 06/07/2023 23:11

I only use them 3 days of my period - I put the worn ones in separate bucket with lid.

Once those 3 days are done, I put them in a 15min wash at 30deg with a tiny bit of detergent (can’t be arsed to rinse by hand plus find it a bit grim using the bathroom sink for that)
and then stick the rest of the laundry in and wash properly at 40deg.
Line dry.

Peony654 · 06/07/2023 23:20

gogomoto · 06/07/2023 22:03

Mine just go in the normal dark wash

Same here. Sometimes I rinse beforehand for the heavy days

UsingChangeofName · 06/07/2023 23:44

So, those who don't rinse the blood out, can you explain to me how it is the blood doesn't then get over everything else in the wash ?

I mean, I've got 3dc, one of whom used to have regular, spectacular nose bleeds. It wouldn't ever cross my mind to start washing things without getting the blood out first. Same with any blood stains from any source.

SusannaOh · 07/07/2023 03:30

We have M&S ones and rinse in cold water, then throw in a dark wash. I don't use salt water as it won't be great for the waterproof liner, plus salt is tradirionally used to stop blood stains setting, but the pants are black so there's no point.

Sometimes they don't get rinsed, as DD is a scruffy beast who will leave them on her floor and they get accidently gathered up with other clothes. I'm less keen on that, as my washer is stingy with water and it's difficukt to get things clean at the best of times.

HappyAsASandboy · 07/07/2023 03:33

I put them in a separate bag in the laundry basket until the end of my period and then put them on a rinse cycle in the machine on their own, then add normal washing and run a normal cycle (40°).

Eomt · 07/07/2023 03:51

I get my daughter to put hers in one of those large net laundry bags with a zip, then every couple of days I tip contents into machine( including the bag) and wash on a cool wash with no fabric softener and line dry everything. They're all black and I wash them separately from everything else.

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