What is the best way to launder clothes to make them last longer and not have pills form?
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What is the best way to launder clothes to make them last longer and not have pills form?
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Delicate cycle or hand wash, no dryer. The less tumbling around, the better.
Remove my ignorance. What are pills?
For lack of a better term, pills are the little balls of loose threads or fibers that collect on the surface of a garment after repeated washings or wearings. I just use an electric shaver to shear them off of sweaters.
If you are in the US, there’s a product called Dryel. You stick up to 4 garments at a time with a moistened “dryer sheet” into the provided bag. You run the tumbler for 30 minutes and remove and hang. I do all my cotton and/or rayon blend sweaters this way and they don’t wear out as fast as if they were being washed and drip dried.
Laundering garments inside-out also helps. If you line-dry, this also helps to preserve the color since the outside is exposed to less ultraviolet light.