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Vinegar as a fabric softener?
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I use vinegar too. Your dispenser drawer should have a designated area for the softener. I pour the vinegar in there up to the max line if needs be and there is no smell.Grocery spends £193.44/ £70 per week or £303 per month0
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i use viniger for most of my fabric softening needs - brill on towels and makes them soak up more water than fabric softener!! the only thing i use conventional softener on is a wool wash - too scared to put cashmeer in with vinegar!!Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness. There is no more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "i am really clever!"0
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I use vinegar as a softener for everything... including cashmere, and it's fine. I use ecover powder & soda crystals, or ecover liquid to wash with.
Before Christmas I was without a WM for a couple of weeks while my utility room was being done up, so I took my laundry to my brother's flat. The chemical smell from the detergent & softener he used was overpowering, and it took two washes to get it out.
Using vinegar means your clothes don't smell of anything... and I don't want to smell of fabric conditioner. If I want to smell of something other than me, I'll use perfume thanks!0 -
Or you could buy her that "Diamonds" perfume by Emporio Armani and claim you misunderstood if she kicks up a stink?0
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yes I have no 'chippy' smell and its just as well as I hate the smell of vinegar but I do use it as a fabric conditioner0
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I have read this thread yesterday. I have just popped some vinegar in with my first load today. My youngest has eczema so I am interested to see how vinegar works on my wash.GC 2011 Feb £626.89/£450 NSD3/7 March £531.26/£450 April £495.99/£500 NSD 0/7 May £502.79/£500
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Wow! I have had eczema my whole life, I wonder if switching to vinegar in the washing will help? Gonna try this - as soon as I get a new washing machine (well, a freecycle washing machine)
In the summer, a potty full of wee was knocked over in the kids room - I searched the net and found people talking about putting vinegar on cats wee, so I tried it on the carpet - took some time to dry, but after 2 treatments with watered down white and brown vinegar, the wee smell was completely gone. There was a lingering whiff of vinegar for about 2 days, then that went away too.
Ive had no luck with vinegar to descale my toilet though.''A moment's thinking is an hour in words.'' -Thomas Hood0 -
Just tried it - everything seems ok and no smell at all. Thank you all very much0
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Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »Just tried it - everything seems ok and no smell at all. Thank you all very much
Me too! All is well.''A moment's thinking is an hour in words.'' -Thomas Hood0 -
I've used vinegar for clothes, bedding, towels etc for a while now since I found it on this site - Never had a vinegar smell.
Sometimes I add a few drops of essential oils but not always.
Recently Mr Frugal bought 'proper' softener and a week later I was up the GPs with DD2 with exzema arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Back to vinegar - no probs.
Also, no gunk in drawer plus the WM drum is always shiny - ie no limescale in machine so element must be limescale free tooHappy machine less prone to breakdowns and no expensive Calgon either!
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