The Great Mumsnet Laundry Debate, Part II. £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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To celebrate Fairy Non Bio’s sponsorship of the Mumsnet Talk App, we’ve launched The Great Mumsnet Laundry Debate - as with all great series, it's a three-parter. Part I was all about how often you wash your bed sheets and part II is about how much you wash your bra...

Bra washing can not only be time consuming but can also require a bit of brain power. First there’s the conundrum of how to wash them, then there’s how often to wash them. Do you put them on a gentle hand-wash setting with a delicate detergent? Do you put them in a mesh bag to protect the straps from getting caught up with other items? Perhaps you only put them in a machine with other light clothing so the elastic doesn’t get stretched by towels and jeans? Or maybe you simply bung them in with everything and put them on a 40C wash? The options can make your brain hurt. So how often do you wash your bra? Are you the kind of person who can’t wear a bra more than once? Or maybe you can wear it for a week?

Whatever your bra-washing process, share it with Fairy Non Bio in the thread below, and maybe even give us a live update from the Mumsnet Talk App as you’re waiting for the load to finish. If you avidly check out Mumsnet's talk boards, you should download the app for yourself. It's free, and allows you to be part of the conversation wherever you are!

All those who post below will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I do actually always use fairy non bio on bras. Put them on a delicates/hand wash cycle and never ever tumble dry. Wouldn't want them to shrink, they are small enough already.

Just throw them in the wash at 40 degrees along with everything else and they mostly come out fine. Saying that i dont have any bras that cost more than a tenner and they are all of the heavy padded variety so tend to keep their shape. If they were expensive silky thin ones i might be more careful.

Chucked in the wash with everything else (and I don't sort by colour either)

I used to wash my undies in a mesh bag, which I suppose did make it easier when unloading the dryer but I don't really miss it now that I just chuck my bras in with everything else. But, I don't really go in for lacy delicate bras anymore as I've gone up a few sizes since having children...

I put my bras in with the normal wash. I do get the occasional underwire escape though! I wear my bras for 2-3 days in a row.

I never used to put my bras in a mesh bag but after last week when a wire fell out and caused my washing machine to make horrible scrapey noises i will be doing so .i was releived that my machine survived but sadly not the bra.

I use a mesh bag and a hand wash cycle in the washing machine. Mix nude and black together but because it's a cool wash no colour run.

I always buy bras on ebay and wash them often, they don't last longer than a year. I machine wash at 40 degrees and tumble dry them. They only go in the wash when they fail the sniff test, so every three or four wears.

Light ones go in a 40 degree light colours or whites wash and black ones go in with very dark 40 degree wash.
Never tumble dry them though.
Always do the hooks up on the back too to stop them catching other items.
Throw them out when the wire starts digging into me!

I used to hand wash them but not anymore.

I wear once, leave it on the air drier to, well, air out, and will wear one more time before washing.

I have 5 or 6 bras I wear on rotation so each one only gets worn once a week or so.

They get chucked in a mesh bag and washed with other delicates of similar colour (when I say similar colour, I mean lights or darks).

They are chucked in with everything else in a mixed colour wash. But they are so big there's nothing delicate about them! Washed every 2-3 days.

I wear mine twice before washing.sometimes I wash them by hand with some handwash liquid, more often they go in the machine, in one of those "bra bags" from Lakeland, in with a light or dark wash, depending on the colours of the bras. Most of my clothes seem to need a wool cycle wash anyway, and I do it at 30 degrees if bras are included, as it's better for the Lycra.

Washed in a mesh bag. Washed around every 3-4 wears, but I don't wear them overnight. 30oc quick wash with like colours. I put good lacy knickers in the mesh bag also.

My sports bra is bloody indestructible and goes in with everything.

I have 4 dds, the eldest of whom is 10. At the moment I feel like every bloody wash has about 10 pairs of girls knickers in it. I imagine in a few years this is going to be the same for bras!

I've never thought about it until now. My bras go in the washing machine with all my other clothes - anything else seems to be making work for yourself.

Mesh bag, synthetics wash. I'm breastfeeding so just have two identical non-wired bras in constant rotation... when I've finished that I'll buy some better bras and they'll go on a hand wash cycle.

Surprised to see so many people just throw them in with whatever. I'd always worried that a wire coming out would destroy the washing machine, maybe I'm too paranoid.

My bras get put into a mesh bag and washed on delicate cycle every couple of days.

I put them in a normal 40c wash, in a mesh bag, every 3 or 4 days.

I wash every three or four days being honest but I shower daily. If it is hot I wash them more frequently. I wash all my bras together on a delicate wash.

I wear bras for two days then sling them in the washing machine on a delicates cycle. Being petite of nork I have many many bras bought cheap from M&S or John Lewis or wherever so I don't feel the need to handwash them. I've not had a wire go missing in thirty years so I cba to worry about that.

I wash my bras as a seperate load, gentle 30C wash with very low spin or no spin if the weather is warm and I can dry the outside... yes this isn't option for all but I like bras :-) I would pop them into wash basket after 1 or 2 days of wear and wash all at once (colour dependng ofc) about once a month... I also wash socks as a seperate load.

I literally treat them like any other clothes
Wash when dirty
Wash wirh whatever is goijg in machine

Chuck them in with the normal load every other day, but then I don't have expensive bras - tend to buy from the supermarket.

Seems in general, we don't take much care of our undies! . I'm the same as the majority. They go in the normal wash. However, due to my ridiculously small assets, I have to be careful drying them in winter on the radiator. They have to be laid on the rad with precision so as not to crease the ample padding enclosed!

I chuck them in with everything else and tumble dry them. My bras are sturdy buggers.