washing bedding at 60

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Hi,

I've just bought some new bedding thats 100% cotton. I really want to wash it at 60 as I've heard this will kill dust mites and hopefully help my eczema. I am a bit worried that if I do this it might fade (its purple) or damage the bedding in some way, plus the care label says wash at 40, but I guess they all do. Has anyone got any experience with this?

I always wash bedding at 60. I have not noticed any damage although I suppose you could use the colour detergent if you are worrying about colours fading.

Incidentally, 100% cotton can be washed at 90 with no ill effects.

I do mine at 90 and it's all fine

Isn't the fading more due to the detergent than temperature (unless it is a cheap dye). Use something gentle like Filetti

yes... fading is due to ingediants in the detergent. (optical brightneers aka blach that bleach fabrics white hence belach colours too)

If you use ecover or fairy nonbio LIQUID or persil non bio LIQUID it wond fade. (most colour detergents are bio so prob not suitable for eczma) also soap nuts etc wont fade things or ecoballs

Washing bedding at 60 is fine

Im allergic to dustmites and ONLY wash my bedding at 60 ever. Its always fine

For a very brief, wee-small-hours-of-the-morning-nowt's-making-sense moment I thought this was some kind of declarative statement regarding middle aged laundry.

I now see it's temperature, like what any sensible person would have realised.....

I was under the impresion that non bio contained more bleach than enzymes than bio to help clean, so would fade it more anyway.

I wash the dc bedding at 60 becasue of excema, and I have not noticed any more fading.

My own bedding is purple, quite dark with coloured spots (nicer than it sounds!!) and although I tend to wash that at 40 because the label says so I feel it has faded anyway.

I suppose it depends on the bedding - and you won't know until you try...

Furball it depends...

non bio liqs are suitable for colours (it says so on the box) where as powders are for whites.

except ecover which are all for colours and if washing whites you add their laundry whitener