How do you clean your cleaning cloths?

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Washing machine, bleach, disinfectant? boiling water? Something else? What do you clean them in? What's the best way you've found?

I put used kitchen cloths and tea towels in a washing up bowl in the utility room. They're washed together on a whites wash approx once a week. Just a bit of washing powder, the bowl is sprayed with white vinegar to prevent mould while they're waiting to be washed.

I couldn't wash the kitchen cloths and tea towels with the bathroom towels as they're bright colours and it might transfer.

Dusters etc go in the washing machine 40 degrees. Washing up cloths and toilet cleaning cloths are always soaked in dilute bleach before I use them

Washer at 30 with all the clothes. Occasionally

I throw them in with a load of towels, wash on 75 degrees with Aldi powder.

Can kitchen and bathroom cloths go in the same wash if the temperature is high enough?
I would like to not use as much paper towel so would want to clean the outside of the loo with a washable cloth (not the inside 😬).
I don't want to run the machine for such a small load.

I don't think mine have a chance to get properly 'dirty' I change cloth a few times a day. They go in with the normal wash.

Kitchen towels/cloths go in the washing machine with bed sheets (normally 40 degrees unless someone's had an illness)

Bathroom cleaning cloths go in the washing machine with towels at 60 degrees

I've still got an ancient Baby Burco, which I use for boil washes. I like boil washing dishcloths and drying up cloths.
I generally just soak dirtier cloths and floor cloths in detergent and bleach solution.
Dusters generally get washed by hand, as all that yellow dye runs like mad.
Facecloths generally go in the machine with the towels.
Having read somewhere how bacteria ridden the dish sponges can become, I give them a wash with the wrights coal tar kitchen soap, then rinse well.

60 in the machine here too with the towels, bio powder and no softener.

Just throw them in with the rest of the wash on 40
Anything really messy I use kitchen roll to pick up

Just put them in a 40 or 60 depending on which wash is on, I generally only use 60 for sheets though. If they have been used for bleach I just rinse and hang on line in case they bleach other stuff next to them. I use kitchen towel though for anything particularly grim

I boil mine in the washer, I only use white cloths so they go in my whites wash with a splash of bleach.

I am working on the assumption that a biological powder at the lower temp it’s designed to work at is better than a non-bio on a hotter temperature.

But now that I’ve written that thought out I realise I don’t know and haven’t the foggiest idea who to ask for actual scientific information that isn’t funded by marketing.

I’m sure if I check online the answer will involve vinegar and bread soda.

I think one of the most tiresome aspects of modern times is wading through layers of misinformation and filtering out the people who can’t distinguish their own opinion from actual science. I miss the days of “experts” even if they were dubious - it was much easier when we thought we could trust them.

I just wash them with whatever else is being washed - in the washing machine.

I've never washed anything on the "boil" setting. Imagine the cost!

I have loads! I have a little basket under the sink and collect the dirty ones as I go along. Then I have enough I put them all in the washer at 60 with laundry powder and Dettol. I figure it's better for the environment this way.

Everything in this house (clothes, towels, baby wipes, cleaning cloths etc) goes in on a 20 degree eco wash with powder or liquid - the only thing I separate out is whites. Life's too short for soaking and bleaching! I run a hot wash occasionally on smelly things and to stop the machine getting gunked up. I figure the uv from being hung outside and the heat of the tumble drier will take care of any lingering bacteria that survive the washer.

Separate hot wash in washing machine. Doubles up as part of keeping washing machine clean with regular hot washes as I wash most clothes on 30

We don't even have anything approaching boil temperature on our current machine. I think the max is 60.

Kitchen cloths get washed with tea towels and hand towels from the kitchen on a 60.
All dusting/cleaning cloths/mop pads etc get washed together on 60.
All with a scoop of bio powder, bit of vanish powder and some white vinegar.

I just chuck mine in with the towels on a 40° wash with an eco-egg.
I don’t use regular detergent because of allergies and I don’t use bleach at all, it’s so bad for the environment.