fabric softener

• Getting towels clean - Karen
  • Same problem here.....think I have found - a solution...........sm
    • Thanks for that information - ginny
  • I uses softeners - pdqtrans
  • I use OxyClean, but it's the clean - Misha
  • Nothing works better than - Sophie
  • towels - MNMT
  • towels - ortho mt
    • Never heard that before. Questions sm - NY MT
  • Try Pine Sol! I kid you not! - Hayseed
    • Talking about smells, I also like - Carolyn
    • Thanks Hayseed! - 80s.Girl
  • fresh towels - sm
    • fabric softener anyone? Bounce sheets? - Downy? lots of products and I live on beach
      • fabric softener - sm
        • Towels and sheets are the one load - Misha
          • Exactly!! - Rad MT

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so towels do get that musty odor.......but I find fabric softener works REALLY well.......no complaints so far

oh and I use TIDE with bleach (also works on colored clothes) for washing......(but I love the smell of Gain, just think Tide washes better)

I do that with my animals actually to help them with the static in winter.  Or a spray bottle with water and some liquid fabric softner squirted over things.  Easier and cheaper than 'Static Guard' in a can.

Good luck and congrats on your new furniture!

I was sent an email by a friend concerning the hazards of fabric softner last night.  I was wondering if anyone else has heard of this?  The article he sent to me was from Allergy and Environmental Health Association (http://aeha.ca/help-with.htm)

He was also talking to an associate who has having many health issues.  He awoke one morning with a "texas-shaped" lump and redness on his neck.  He went to the doctor the next day and the doctor suggested that he go home and look at his pillow and call him back and tell him what he found.  There was a dry sheet in his pillow case - and you guessed it - in the shape of Texas.  His doctor told him that it was unbelievable the illnesses that are caused by fabric softener.

It seems like there are some many things you shouldn't eat, you shouldn't use, and the list goes on.  Sometimes I think we are doomed if we do and doomed if we don't.  I guess it is an issue of pick and choose.  Does anyone know an alternative for fabric softener? 

By the way - If you don't want to look at this article for any other reason, look at it for the great list of alternatives for cleaning without using chemicals.  They have a great list and it is quite lengthy.  I printed it off just to have for a household reference!