Microfibre Cloths ...`

[Tallilah]

Hi all - looking for some help.

I bought a range of Microfibres to use rounf the house instrad of throwaway wipes etc, but the washing of them confuses me.

So they have to be used without fabric softener so have to be done separetly, but can you mix the dishcloth ones with the bathroom one, I alos used one one the skirting, thats pretty near the floor, so can that go in the load with the dishloths? Puls I dont have a million opf they so they are pretty lonely in a wash by themselves (as I use softener on baby clothes etc)

So in an attempt to be environmentally friendly, it doesnt seem that good?

What have I missed?

I also started to soak them in zoflora overnight, but the dishcloths end up smelling rather strong ....

I also had microfibre cloths when I found out what a disaster they were. It's even worse that you're doing most damage when you wash them because I wash cloths more frequently than most people I know!

When my daughter set up home, I offloaded them to her. I know they're still releasing plastics into the water system, but she uses and therefore washes them less often than I do.

The guppybag is very small and has very mixed reviews, so I'm not sure that is the answer. HasaDigaEebowai's idea is best of all, but I like thinking that the stripy cloths are for washing up, the white ones are for cleaning and those blue and white ones are for anything disgusting.

I have a plastic tub (can be cleaned out) for kitchen dishcloths (microfibre had them years) kitchen hand towels and tea towels. They get washed once a week with dettol laundry, no fabric softner.

Then I have another plastic tub (they are Ikea's recycling bins with a flip up lid) which houses all the cleaning cloths for windows, bathrooms, kitchen floor wipes (made these from old towels to fit flat mop) and this gets washed when it is full, high temp and dettol laundry again. I use Method cleaning products or e-cloths for glass.

There must come a point when microfibre cloths stop shedding though. I've had mine quite some time and the've been washed at least once every week for several years. If they continued to shed there'd be nothing left of them by now.

I think I read that with all microfbre cloths, fleeces etc, the shedding gets worse as the products gets older. It doesn't help that they're still marketed as the eco friendly alternative to other products.