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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👻 Thursday, June 20, 2024

calhoon2005@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Semi related…I heard a random ad on a podcast today saying that a cup of vinegar in the wash is better than fabric softener. I don’t use fabric softener, but I don’t know where I want to test the vinegar thing…you know, in case the towels come out smelling like vinegar…?

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Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Surprisingly, no. You can’t smell the vinegar, even with excessive amounts.

I personally wouldn’t use a whole cup full, but it’s fantastic for getting funky smells out of things

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
nope, it gets washed out in the rinse. I always fill the softener in my top loader with white vinegar.

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Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They don’t. Add to the rinse water, and the smell is gone by the time the spin cycle has finished. I second this hack - vinegar does wonderful things to hair as a rinse too. Unless your hair is coloured, where a vinegar rinse wouldn’t help at all. Mine isn’t coloured, so I rinse with a generous tablespoon of vinegar to 1 litre of water after shampooing, and don’t need conditioner. At first you notice the smell, but it’s gone in 5 minutes. The mild acid neutralises the soap part of washing powder and hair shampoo.

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- fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Silly question but do you add vinegar with the detergent liquid at the start?
  
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  - Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    In the rinse, where you’d traditionally put fabric softener.
    
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