Dh keeps ruining the pillowcases

[Lovewearingjeans]

With his scummy greasy head. Drives me mad. Apart from changing from light to dark bedding, is there any solution? Have put them on a hot wash with Vanish Gold.

[misscph1973]

What kind of pillows do you have currently, Lovewearingjeans? I am thinking that if they are synthetic, this could be half the problem?

[Lovewearingjeans]

They have to be, as he has asthma, and is affected by feathers.

[TheSpottedZebra]

We change our pillowcases every night. I started doing this when I had dreadful acne as a teen, then DH developed sweaty yellowhead as a grownup, so it seems to make sense! It's not as wasteful as it sounds, honest! All my bed linen is white cotton anyway, and I just buy more plain white pillowcases from the john lewis sale. And we use pillow protectors too. And I wash bed linen at 60 degrees, which seems to be needed to cut through the grease that I slather on my skin to see off my eczema.

We sound delightful, don't we?

[rainbowunicorn]

I have the pillow cases that match the bedding at the front during the day then at night they go to the back and the pillows we sleep on are the plain cotton ones that are at the back in daytime. At least this stops the nice cases getting manky from DH head. I started this a couple of years ago after having umpteen bedding sets ruined because of this.

[mrsdavidbowie]

Mine did
I divorced him

[DiamondsInTheFlesh]

Oh it's fecking gross I thought it was just oh, don't know if I'm glad or not to hear its normal. Why is it men though? Why don't I get yellow pillow cases?

[DoItTooJulia]

Signing in, I too have a yellow-mark-making-DH. Wtf is it all about? He does a filthy job and never, ever comes to bed without a proper shower.

Drives me nuts. The marks do come out in the wash, but I don't make the same marks! And I dint was my hair every day, in fact, if I have blow dried and straightened it properly I can get away with 6 days between washes (dry shampoo and a bun for day 6!)

[Helgathehairy]

L'oreal for men anti- dandruff shampoo. There are 2 but you want the Black bottle with the orange lid. I used to use the Philip Kingsley but this is exactly the same, just cheaper.

[Jemino870]

I wear a night cap. The only ones I've found are for chemo patients but they emulate having hair in the context of a barrier between my scalp and pillow. I hope this helps.

[PocketNiffler]

I put a dribble of shampoo or washing up liquid in the prewash of the washing machine. Or soak overnight in oxygen bleach. Sun is good. Wash at 90 sometimes.

[Polkadot1974]

Yup. We have The yellow pillows too. Bald man here too

[wowfudge]

I soaked DP's manky yellow pillowcase in Vanish Platinum Oxi Action and it has come up like new. The instructions state to soak for a maximum 6 hours but it was in for 10 whilst I was out at work. I'm impressed - we only have this issue with cotton bedding; polycotton is fine.