Cold water wash challenge

[th_tan]

Well I did my last load in cold water, its just time consuming is all. I'll try and do it more often to save a little.

[Gabelma]

We do cold water washes with our diapers and just about everything else except the cloths we use for cleaning. We add vinegar to the conditioner drawer of our washing machine for our diapers. We dry pail our diapers, and we use something called eco-balls so we use no detergent at all, and don't need the rinse cycle unless it's a diaper+vinegar wash.

Eco-balls have gotten out everything that we've thrown at them, except for oils, but they can be pre-treated before the wash. Any stubborn-looking stains get a squirt of lemon juice or hung out in the sun.

- Charley

[mekish]

when i saw the headline i thought the author was refering to cold showers!

[shopgirl]

I was always told that detergent does not dissolve as well in cold water and will not wash your clothes as well but since switching over several months back, I really do not see a difference. I have also started using much less of the detergent than the box calls for. Unless they are really really dirty, I think clothes get just as clean with less detergent :-)