[LuxLiving]

I guess this is subjective-- 'don't get as clean in cold water.' I have never sat in a room full of people and thought 'oh, her clothes are LESS clean'??????

I mean, I have seen people in dirty clothes, as in they just got off work at a dirty job kind of DIRTY, but not in say, a variance of cleanliness level, no.

I wash all week on cold water w/a low amount of detergent. On Saturday I do an extra load of whites in hot water w/good old plain bleach. I do see where whites don't seem to get as sparkling in cold, but am wondering if scientifically it's more a matter of the heat of the water and the strength of the bleach plus the detergent that go together to make it more clean? I'm thinking it is the bleach that is doing more of the trick here than the heated water, but I could be wrong.

Back to my colored clothes I have failed to see 'less clean' so I've proceeded w/washing in cold. A laundress for a theater company told me that clothes last longer when washed in cold, so that's what I do.

Any of you brighter scientific brainiacs care to weigh in w/facts?? thoughts??