salt and vinegar for washing (was dryer sheets)

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Mike,

 

I still pre-treat with our same old spray-n-wash. I am open to a new

pre-treat option if any one on the list has a suggestion!

 

I haven't tried the rock salt yet, I have been thinking about buying one of

those huge bags of salt that you can buy for water softeners, but haven't done

that yet either. I would think it has to be fairly small to dissolve quick

enough.

 

I also don't know what the environmental impacts are of using salt instead of

commercial detergents. I would like to have the answer to that too. My

alternative would be to do exactly what you are doing, and that is to use 7th

generation's products.

 

Mike Elliot <mmelliot wrote:

I'll have to give it a try. I had switched off the more toxic

detergents and dryer sheets to the Seventh Generation products, but had

never heards their was yet another option.

 

A couple of more questions though. What do you do to pre-treat a stain

or is this not really nescessary? Would rock salt work as well or does

it have too many other components to be effective? Any negative

environmental concerns regarding this?

 

-Mike

 

--- Leah Morrison <l_morrison2002 wrote:

 

> Mike,

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> I use 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of salt per load of laundry. I have been

> using " table salt " that I buy in bulk at Sam's club. This salt is

> instead of laundry detergent. I use a Downey ball that I had from

> before, I put white vinegar up to the fill line, close it and add it

> to the wash. During the rise cycle the vinegar is dispensed from the

> ball instead of fabric softener. Then the finished clothes get

> dried. I have notice alot less dryer lint since I started doing

> laundry this way. As I said in one of the previous posts, I have

> been doing the vinegar instead of fabric softener for over a year and

> the salt for 4-6 weeks. Our clothes come out soft, smelling clean

> and are static free. When I do a load of " whites " I often add 1/4

> cup of baking soda to the above mentioned routine.

>

> Leah

>

> Mike Elliot <mmelliot wrote:

> This is the first I have heard about salt and vinegar in

> the washer.

> What type of salt do you used and how much? Is it as damaged as

> chlorine bleach? Does it fade the colors? How much vinegar in the

> rinse

> cycle? What does the vinegar actually do? What is a dryer ball?

>

> Inquiring minds want to know :-)

>

> -Mike

>

> --- SV <shavig wrote:

> > I use salt in my wash, vinegar in my rinse, and dryer balls in my

> > dryer (when I use the dryer).

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