Style Theory: STOP Washing Your Clothes Like This! (Tide)
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2024
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You’re washing your clothes WRONG! As a matter of fact, Loyal Theorist, you may be making your clothes even dirtier (and bluer) by throwing them in a washing machine. If you’re looking for house hacks or cleaning hacks for your latest load of laundry, we’re happy to help. But there is a secret that Tide, All, and Persil are NOT telling you. Be warned because after watching this episode you may want to burn your entire wardrobe! Or at the very least, you’ll learn how to do laundry the RIGHT way and not harm yourself in the process.
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A warning for those prone to OCD or obsessive thoughts: ignore this video. In all of your years living without this knowledge, you have been just fine wearing your clothes washing and drying on the default settings. Don't let MatPat scare you into changing your habits to the detriment of your mental health.
Definitely. This comment needs way more upvotes so everyone can see.
If my clothes aren't actively killing me, I'm probably fine. I've been so far!
I wish I saw this comment before watching the video
you are so right!! thank u so much for that comment, because even when I saw the title I felt this big OMGWHATIAMSTILLDIRTYANDBAD. Thank you
I don't really think that that was the purpose of this video but whatever agree to disagree I guess
Your warning is appreciated, but I refuse to allow myself to be intimidated by a RUclips video. >:|
Guys, MatPat is running 5 channels but is still able to tell us to do our laundry better
Never going to give u up
That's easy when that gets him paid 😂
@@bare_bear_hands did we just post a comment at the exact same second
*This tells us something guys. Tells it us clear.*
100th like!!
This makes your cooking food in your washer and dryer episodes way more interesting.
It's OK. The food was sealed.
Oh noooo
That comment about drying your clothes and sunlight gave me an idea. What if we could incorporate small UV lights in clothes dryers to replicate the effects of sunlight while drying clothes faster?
Go for it🔥🔥🔥
That’s exactly what I was thinking
Believe it or not, they used to do that in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Have a Whirlpool dryer from 1963 in turquoise (have the matching washer too) that has a UV/ozone bulb in it. Towels always had a unique smell to them after they were done being dried in that dryer, also have some peace of mind that everything has been sanitized as well.
@@seana806 it makes sense, you're basically putting your clothes in an autoclave except it's UV light instead of heat and pressure.
Hmm...You should write that down.
The issue isn't with our laundry habits, it's the clothes that are the problem. You may be able to wash your bedding, towels and kitchen cloths on a hot cycle. But most of your clothes will shrink or get ruined in some other manner. In the past the fibers of our clothing could be boiled to sanitize them. If I did that today I wouldn't have anything left to wear.
That's what I was thinking.
Some shirts and pants are sensitive to temperature, but underwear isn't, in my family we clean as much as possible at 60°c, including all underwear and socks regardless of label, and are having no problems
kinda love the idea of shopping for clothing with fabrics that can be boiled and sanatized from now on lol
@@kalle5548 You sound like someone who is not a woman. Women's clothing is stupid.
Only the underclothes and linens were boiled. Other things weren't washed at all often and never hot.
Hey MatPat, commercial laundromat worker here, I expected this to be about bleach at first, being that it hides a stain. You are right that detergents don't kill germs, but neither does washing your hands with soap - yknow, the biggest way to prevent infection? Soap is meant to lubricate and suspend particles and germs, letting the water carry them away. Heat can help, and many optical brighteners have a disinfectant as an ingredient.
One surprising way to cut back on the grossness is actually the material your clothes are made of. Natural fibers, be it organic, protein, or impure (eg cotton, wool, tencel or rayon) will expand in the wash, assisting the detergent carry it away, as the mesh loosens. Fully synthetic fiber, like polyester or nylon, which are just plastic, will not expand and thus hold on to the germs longer.
Thanks for talking about laundry, always happy to see it dived into a little deeper!
dont mind me comenting so i have a refrence for what fabrics to buy in the future
I'm glad you brought this up. I was thinking about just this after I watched this video.
also he said UV light kills the germs, so going outside shpuld be enough right? hahaha
@@lucyandecember2843 I personally think hemp is the best. It has antibacterial properties, it's hypoallergenic and very durable. It's also not bad for the environment. Cotton is fine I think but try to buy clothes made out of organic or recycled cotton since cotton is pretty bad for the environment. Tencel is also not bad for the environment and has antibacterial properties.
I do mind only because fabrics like rayon, tencel, lyocell, modal, viscose and the like are actually basically the same thing, with nominal difference or just branding. They're very easy to steam out but may not be super durable if longevity is a concern.
Keep in mind also cotton and linen absorb stains, and are among the hardest to fully visually clean and wrinkle easily.
Some other comments mentioned hemp as antibacterial, this trait shared by merino wool. Wool steams out smoothly but does risk shrinking.
Love this episode! One more thing we used to do better with our clothes was to IRON THEM! My mother still irons EVERYTHING. The MOST annoying thing however is that you CANNOT FIND clothes that are 100% cotton anymore. EVERYTHING has lycra or polyester (hello '70s) and is ruined in a hot washer/dryer cycle, especially underwear!
i raid the local goodwill every week. cotton is common there, but i went to H&M and its like 40% polyester city
I have never thought that ‘getting rid of germs and bacteria and viruses’ is what I want out of the washing machine. Dirt and sweat and smell and skin stuff is.
That said, I will bear in mind the option to wash undies separately. I normally only use the hygiene (60 degrees Celsius) for bedding and clothes worn when I’ve been sick.
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For anyone watching this and thinking they are going to begin washing all of their laundry with hot water, STOP. Many fabrics are blends that contain polyester and other materials that melt and degrade with heat. Example of this is many bath towels, underwear, sheets, and gymwear. One of the best fabrics for hot washes and hot drying/sun drying is cotton. It's very durable and won't break down nearly as much as other synthetic materials.
Well option #1 it is...
But cotton is also bad for the environment. It takes a lot of water and chemicals to grow cotton.
@@paikio Technically synthetic fabrics are bad for the environment as well. What fabric type would you recommend?
@@paikio it depens on where to cotton comes from. Since we now grow most cotton where it is not supposed to grow, it's more harmful than it needs to be. Also a lot if clothes/fabrics only shrink once and are fine afterwards.
@@paikio Sanitizers are also presumably chemicals.
Damn, here I thought my habit (which I got from my parents and grandparents) to dry my clothes out in the sun was just some bogus, which I should've stopped ages ago. Glad it actually does something for my health :D
Thanks grandma and mother
samee living in a desi house my parents and grandparents were always so stingy when it come to electricity so my clothes were always out in the sun to dry atleast its better for health
My family never owned a dryer, and we always used the sun to dry the laundry.
Why waste money and space on another appliance, when a clothesline does the job.
we do it to save on the power of running the dryer
which also somehow makes the clothes smell a bit weird
I usually don't do it for two reasons:
- the tumbler removes a lot of debris from the clothes by spinning them around.
- if you put the clothes out in the sun, they catch other pollutants such as pollen or exhaust gases from traffic.
Of course, if it rains, you're also out of luck. And germs are not an issue if you wash/tumble at the correct temperatures.
As a non-American I find very jarring to learn that most Americans don't do this. They can't even get laundry right, it's something that's intuitive and simple, I only use the dryer when I'm in a rush, the dryer actually is bad for clothes as it wears them down faster and it shrinks some fabrics, not to mention using the dryer consumes more electrical power and is less eco-friendly, laundry is already a very polluting activity on its own.
I saw Abbey Cox's video on this subject and one of the things she recommended was Vodka. I'd love for MatPat to test Vodka, Vinegar, and brand disinfectants :D
Vodka is usually around 40% alcohol. You need a 70% alcohol solution to properly disinfect. So even if she was replacing all of the water in a wash cycle with vodka, it still wouldn't be strong enough.
Vinegar is actually even worse-- if left undiluted it can kill SOME germs (E. Coli and Salmonella), but not even close to the 99.9% needed to disinfect.
I actually do wash my laundry nude and do laundry every week AND actually enjoy it. Also, I always wash in Hot Water and Dry on High Heat. Those things also help get my clothes cleaner. Finally, my preferred brand(s) of Detergent are Arm & Hammer or Purex.
Additionally, I always do a Bleach Rinse once a month in my Washer.
Great, now instead of being blissfully unaware of the fact that all my clothes are dirty, I will be fully aware that I am walking around in my own fecal matter. Thank you Matt for always finding a way to both ruin and brighten my day.
Rip
Lysol makes a laundry disinfectant. Add it during the rinse cycle, soaks your clothes in disinfectant. 👌
@@ralexandra1058 ^ i've been doing this for years
Gone from ruining childhoods to ruining lifestyles
So if the sun disinfects clothes then all I have to do is go outside more and I'll never have to do laundry again. Shitty life hack unlocked
The only reason I don't wash on hot is because pretty much every item of clothing I find is a cotton blend that shrinks when washed on hot.
So just buy a Sanitizer or just dry it with the SUN
Maybe just cold wash it and then hang it outside your house where sunlight can reach it?
@ZeNothing what about buying a size bigger? I always wash my cloth3s before I wear it anyways. Would that help
@@EpicTacoSenpai I'm tall and overweight. 2XL garments fit correctly when not shrunken. 3XL garments are significantly less available
Could you do a theory about the pink tax? You may have heard of it. Ex: Razor for boys: 6:99 Razor for girls: 7:99 Exactly the same product.
If they're the same buy the cheaper product and paint it whatever color you like.
OK so in the stores around me in denmark I've noticed we don't have that on Razors the Razor for boys and girls are the same price BUT they have a gender neutral one that's cheaper.... they aren't just scaming women anymore they're also scaming men💀💀
Me: laughs in nonbinnary
Edit: yes it's the same products
The pink tax is a real thing though and not just for razors either. It can be applied to a lot of different products.
@anniefitzgerald4447 ye true but I think at this point in society they're just tryna scam everyone💀💀
My mum, who is a health professional, has always been mad when companies insist to wash at 30c. There’s a reason why they wash hospital bed sheets at a high temperature.
Exactly. It makes literally no sense.
I'm just a single dude who does his own laundry, and I've been washing everything at 60 degrees and bed sheets/pillows/blankets at 90 degrees for decades.
Guess that low temperature is meant to sell more detergent and additional chemicals to disinfect stuff.
@@svr5423absolutely. The lowest I go is 40C depending on what I’m washing.
Because the extent to which bedsheets need to be sanitised in the hospital is different to the requirements of a household where everyone has functioning immune systems. No one is getting ill because they did their laundry on a low setting. This is misinformation.
@@svr5423 it’s that we started making delicate clothing that literally can’t be put in hot water. And then they started advertising that cold washes were more environmentally friendly than hot water.
One thing to note is that many places have made it illegal to dry your clothing outside, and even in places where it is legal your apartment lease, HOA, or some other oversight group may have made it against the rules. Abby Cox has a video about this topic and she discusses this issue. It you have any of these types of laws or housing rules I'd suggest doing most of your laundry the normal way but boiling your underthings (just make sure to get a separate pot for it so that you never mix laundry with clothes). Obviously, it's less eco-friendly than hang drying outdoors but it's a necessity. Plus you have the option of hang-drying inside so that you still at the very least save energy that your dryer pretty much wastes for no reason. Just remember folks the biggest barrier to environmental change is almost always the government.
Yep, this. Just signed my new lease and under a bolded section of obligatory tenant maintenance, cleaning and behaviors is a line forbidding any indoor drying of clothes. Only those who have an outdoor terrace or patio may do so, but not units whos patio faces a street.
@@loupnuit1 why is that tho? is it a matter of visual contamination or why do they care?
@@gabbs_giss1871 The indoor part is under a section about controlling humidity levels inside and preventing mold in a building built in the 70s. As for outdoors, my city(south east MI) has lot of unsightlyness ordinances. You can be fined just for storing you trash cans in a place visible from the street and this includes apartment complex dumpsters. It's mainly older age city gov types worrying about city image.
This. Hence why I have plans to place a clothsline at the garage and open garage door. No one said I couldnt do it at my gararge.
@@SasukeUchiha723 But then it doesn't get sun exposure, therefore no UV radiation and heat, so you are probably doing a worse job at cleaning them in a dingy garage than you are a dryer since you'd get neither heat, nor UV rays. Not really doing yourself any favors there, unless you just want to save on your electric bill, but unless you're boiling your laundry before cleaning them all those microbes MatPat mentioned aren't going anywhere. In fact, if they're drying inside a cool environment without sun exposure, it's probably making it a lot worse because that brings the possibility of mold and mildew into the equation. He was specifically talking about heat and sun exposure there, and I don't see how the inside of a garage is getting any sun.
For newer dryers, they have a steam sanitize feature that I recommend they get up to around 150f.
Another useful feature would be to put a UV/ozone light in to sanitize everything. Have a Whirlpool dryer from 1963 that has a UV light in it, towels always had a unique scent after they were done being dried in that dryer.
My man how do you keep yourself sane running 5 channels at once?!
Luckily for my family, our washer has a “sanitize” heat setting!
I recommend against using that unless you want to replace your clothing regularly
Wastes a ton of energy and destroys clothes.. stupid mode!
@@YoshMaster I use that and my clothes are fine.
@@Falcodrin I use it and my clothes are fine
never gonna run around and desert you
In the German Military Issued clothes there is a Tag to not wash them with an Optical Brightener. It will make the clothes more Visible under Night Vision
Yep! My uniforms have that tag and my instructors kept squawking about it.
Every military uniform that I've come across has that warning. Makes sense.
ha, thats actually more usefull knowledge than this entire video ;) (altho i have absolutly no use for that knowledge... NOW I KNOW.)
distilled white vinegar as a fabric softener actually helps a TON to disinfect
I can’t believe that MatPat and his team can give us 1 episode from each of his 5 channels every single week. IT’S AMAZING
It honestly never occurred to me that anyone thought we washed clothes to disinfect them. I thought the point was that they're not covered in dirt and sweet anymore.
Yup
Yeah 100%. I don't care if my clothes have some bacteria on them, as long as I'm not covered in cuts that's not a problem. I care that they don't stink.
@@extendoduck Bacteria makes things stink though. It's why if you leave your clothes in a closet for weeks before actually wearing them your supposedly 'clean' clothes now smell musty and weird. That bacteria had a chance to multiply to a point where it's making them rank.
@@AlexysRM I know. But I'm not in the habit of wearing clothes I haven't washed in weeks, and I keep a dessicant in my closet, which limits the rate of bacterial growth enough there's no perceptible smell for quite a while anyway. I don't need my clothes to be sterilized unless I've been around someone with a highly contagious disease (in which case they get washed in the hottest possible cycle and dried likewise.)
Mmm, sweet sweet sweet!
One interesting thing to add: the copper pots they were using would have unknowingly be helping them in their war on germs! Copper ions remove electrons from the cell walls of germs thus making them unable to function the way they should and killing them, the boiling water would have been filled with the stuff - thus helping them fight the germs on two fronts - heat and wrecking their cell walls!
That's super interesting, chemistry ftw!
I also sometimes as well as setting it to 60c add in a cup of salt, then do an extra rinse and spin to get any salt crystals out.
Matpat. Please do a theory about textured hair in dystopians. How is it they are able to keep perfect box braids and dreadlocks in a land where they don’t have the product?
Would hair gel be enough to make that work? I know you can make a hair gel by boiling and straining flax seeds, and I suspect some other seeds like chia or basil might have a similar effect, since they have this coating on the outside that turns into this sticky gel when they get wet.
Honestly, in any postapocalyptic or otherwise non-industrial setting, I'd expect braids and buns to be very much the norm over loose hair or ponytails -- in a survivalist scenario they would probably wash their hair less often, and without modern industry they'd have to make their own soap, vinegar, and some sort of conditioning oil just to be able to get their hair anything like what modern shampoo and conditioner does. Besides, messy hair (or hair that's only been washed without all these products) holds braids better, and braids keep hair cleaner than just letting it loose. In anything but a modern industrial setting they're probably one of the most sensible hairstyles you could have.
They do have product! There are many cultures that have made their own hair products, like the African Himba Tribe. They use a mix of fat and red clay for their hair and skin! And the ancient Chinese also had a natural hair gel called 刨花水 made from Elm tree juice. Also i dont think Dreadlocs really need any products anyway, i could be wrong though. 🤷🏾♀
You know, most households here in Mexico hang their clothes to dry under the sun, either 'cause they don't own a dryer or 'cause it's cheaper. So it's nice to know we've been doing our laundry correctly for many years!!
It's actually the same in almost the entierety of asia
And Australia
@@jerichode I remember a few years ago i thought dryers weren’t even available to buy in aus because every house i see they have a clothesline in their backyard or balcony
Barbados too lol, many caribbean countries still do this XD
Same here in every country on the equator
Thank you MatPat, now I can finally brag about being right with my roommates who have been trying to convince me that 40°C is hot enough to disinfect clothes while I insist that above 60 is the right temperature.
Most viruses will be killed at 40c, but mould and more resistant bacteria won't...
Avians have higher body temperatures at ~42, yet there are avian flu... As then why is that?
Same with Covid, which is similar to Ebola, likely originated from bats...which is 37-41.2... how about swine flu???
40 is definitely not enough... Some can even survive boiling. Most germs are killed after boiling water for several minutes, hence why electric kettle only shut off after water boiled for about a minute
True
But you don't need to sanitize your clothes
Above 60 will damage cloth. Unless you're wearing nothing but pure white cotton or linen with no elastics in any clothing, you should be following washing instructions, which are pretty much always under 60.
This is exactly why I love this channel.
Thank you for the tips!! ^^
A correction: purple shampoos don't make hair blonder, it shifts the tone of the hair, making it more cool-toned. But it can't change the level of the hair colour (1 is the darkest level, 10 is the blondest).
Very true. And I still use bluing once in a while to brighten white clothes... In particular anything that has yellowed. Learned this from my grandmother and it works great!
If you go by "blonde" meaning "golden", then yes, the purple/blue shampoo technically makes the hair less "blonde" as it visually cancels out the yellow/gold. If going by the meaning of "bright", then canceling out the yellow to result in a whiter look would be perceived as, well, brighter - it does however not remove any pigments (much like in yellowed/greyed out clothes)... actually adds some.
And that's what he said, is it not?
Not that it _makes_ the hair blonder but that "it tricks your eye into *perceiving* [it] as blonder". Although he should maybe have clarified as "brighter" (as in light/visual reflection, not the actual pigmentation/dye-level).
That's exactly what he said in the video.
@@thekueken I agree, that's true! I just left this comment because I didn't want anyone misunderstanding that they can get their hair blonder by using purple shampoo and thus waste money.
Matt actually made clothes sound interesting💀
What is my life?
Hey, clothes are interestin.
@@hassassinator8858 fr like what is so weird about that
Not like the channel is about *fashion* or anything
Yeah, it isn’t. It’s called “The Style Theorists”.
My mom always used hot cycles and outside drying for clothes, and it's something she still does to this day.
Remember kids, the "old and experienced" are old *_and_* experienced for a reason.
While I’m a few months behind, I appreciate this video. You just explained to me MatPat why the washing machine in my apartment that I’ve been in for over a year has no cold wash setting. I have tried every cycle including delicate and hand wash and the water temp ranges from warm bath water to boiling hot. It’s been aggravating me since I’m eco friendly but now, I’m super happy that it’s been getting my clothes clean!
Just remember to check your sun dried clothing for spiders before putting them on, particularly relevant if you forget you laundry out after dark.
The problem with heat is that it can shrink clothes in my experience, and with drying outside is not great when having allergies
Towels. Bedding. Do it for cotton. Definetly not for knit.
@@dutchik5107 Yes i always got the advise to wash those things at 60 degrees celcius, seperate from the "normal" wash which is usually 40 as recommendation
Do they remove germs at least
@@CatsLilaSalem I wash everything at 60 degrees and bed sheets etc. at 90/95 (whatever the machine supports).
40 degrees is not sanitary.
@@svr5423 Still, most i know use 40, 30 or even 0. Celcius. and my new machine has programs which also use 40 and 30. And i did have in the past that new clothes did shrink when washing to hot
Next question: Is this seriously a problem? Has that bacteria on our clothes actually affected us? And what is wrong with an optical illusion?
If you have athlete's foot or some skin conditions, chances are it's induced/prolonged/worsened by unclean clothing.
No, it really isn't. Bacteria is a part of our everyday life, and it's everywhere. While it can prolonge some conditions and slightly increase the spread, if you for example, are washing your roommate's clothing with your own COVID clothing, your roommate likely already has covid because of bacteria elsewhere. As for the 'fecal matter' part, that's purely for scares, as well its true, it's not really unhealthy enough to cause issues.
The human body has an immune system for a reason, and if you deprive yourself of your immune system's job (which is to fight these bacteria) you can actually face more serious health problems. It's like how if you stop going to the gym, you stop building muscle and slowly lose it. If your immune system stops going to the gym (fighting bacteria) it loses muscle (aka it's ability to fight germs as well).
There's nothing really wrong with an optical illusion, unless you're in the military and it makes the clothing more visible on IR. That's the point of science, to make things work, to make them easier. In conclusion, this video is practically useless, and if you have the money to switch to sanitizer and want to, you should, yes, but you should not feel pressured to, as it doesn't really matter in the slightest, and could pose health risks of it's own.
It is an issue if you live with someone who had a sickness recently, for example. The best takeaway you can take from this video is that sanitizers exist and that you should learn to really separate your clothes in batches.
But as a previous comment stated, you are already living with that person, and you will probably catch the disease from them anyway
Also it can make you more visible under night vision. That is why the military does not use that!
Thanks for the info I was already thinking about adding white vinegar to actually clean my clothes better but I'll definitely invest into laundry sanitizers too.
I've always washed my clothes through a cycle with a disinfectant that first, such as lysol. Even after laundry disinfectant become more common - it's cheaper to use regular lysol as am example, than the version made for laundry. I also do it first, rather than last(as the purpose made additives tell you to), to make sure that the laundry soap pulls, and thoroughly rinses out, any remaining chemical agents afterwards. Basically the lysol does the cleaning and sanitisation, with the soap instead being an agent to remove said disinfectant.
Abby Cox & Bernadette Banner did a great in depth look at laundry / fabric historically and wearing outer and inner layers. If combined with not buying fast fashion it also helps prevent microplastics.
yooooo this is an culture in Philippines (putting laundry in sun)
yes! bernadette also washed a dress the way they did in the edwardian era
@@daeundances it was such a cool video too!!
Mat...did you really have to upload this video the second I put my clothes in the washer? The timing is immaculate 😂
Same here😂😂😂😂😂
I’m putting mine away rn💀
The Theorist Ninjas are watching you.
no u
Woooooow
mat: youre washing your clothes wrong
also mat: *makes food with laundry machines*
i genuinely didn't expect the third solution to be the sun. i use it normally anyway and i have never used/seen a drying machine irl lmfao
I really need this channel to answer: why it became the style rule to go to a office wearing suits? Like if you’re a lawyer for example, why? Imagine on a hot summer, wearing a suit, it’s just nuts to me this need for formal clothing
Air conditioning/temperature control. You can wear a suit if the temp is stable year round indoors. Summer suits, seersucker suits used to be a thing.
Suits are expensive, commonly tailored, and have a lot of steps to put on. It is a sign of status and "prestige". Office environments naturally want to have the aura of success, and usually have the thermostat set quite low.
Fashion is decided up north
@@BernStoogin An unfortunate fact for women as their office clothes are usually less warm.
As a brit, where dryers are a rarity, sun-drying clothes is already one of the best parts of the two days of sun we get in a year, and that's just because having clothes horses of damp clothes throughout your house is a pain and quite possibly a health-hazard.
In the US, we call them drying racks. A clothes horse is a person who is really into wearing the latest fashion and has a lot of clothes. Is clothes horse uses that way at all in the UK?
@@jenniferpearce1052 Never heard that one!
We have more sun here, but I do prefer to hang my clothes outside. When weather doesn't permit line-drying, I use the indoor racks.
It depends on weather. I believe asian countries use sun method a lot.
I am Indian and we do it every single day
I've been feeling like my washing machine was not doing enough so this video gives me soooo much closure. Thank you MatPat!
What’s ur washer not doing
Was panicking for a second, wondering if I could ever wear clothes again but then I watched a little more and realized it’s not a problem cuz I wash my socks and undies together with towels and rags and stuff at 90°C 😅😅😅
Same. I have paranoia about dirty undies, and have athletes foot. So I always wash undies and socks together separate from the rest of my clothes and on hot/warm
When I was in college I actually knew someone who did their laundry in the nude, we had communal services... he was reported on right quick
Does water remove the germs at least
He just wanted the UV rays from the Sun to disinfect his body.
@@osmosisjones4912 , water is for dirt, not germs.
Pro tip: a gallon of OdorBan at home depot is like $10 and is so concentrated that it will do tons of laundry. I use it for other cleaning and sanitizing, but read the label carefully as it can damage certain hard surfaces. But for laundry, it removes the weird smells from things like towels.
*odoban
But yeah they stuff is GREAT. Don't spread the secret lol
@@javiermedina6144 why gatekeep it im missing something
@@poshniall so that we can keep it for ourselves :)
i alway set my laundry to the highest heat, but i am glad that youve made me have to look into different detergents. thank you.
MatPat: Third option expose your laundry to the sun.
Me: Looks outside at the wet and dreary weather
"Gonna have to go with the hot water."
I would love to see a style theory video on face hygiene
, feel like there’s a lot of scam products that say they make your face better when they really don’t!
seconded!
Also, the difference between washing with cold water vs hot water
Agreed l, especially with items that haven’t actually undergone any testing, although if it is skincare products it might be a lot do work, as some things take months of regular use before differences begin being noticeable.
I use to have a lot of acne. I used all kinds of soap to combat the acne. But washing my face with water only cured my acne lol.
There are some days where I don't wash my face properly with water and I get a few zits in those areas like the forehead. You wanna know how I get that acne on the forehead to dissapear? I scrub it with my fingers and water. And the acne dissapears within a few days.
This one is somewhat disingenuous, though surely unintentionally. As anyone in the medical field can tell you, there is an important difference between "clean" and "sanitary". MatPat insists throughout the video that washing your clothes in modern machines with clothing detergent doesn't clean your clothes, but what he means to say is that it doesn't sanitize them. Any medically packaged bandage marked sanitary when packaged will have a marked shelf life. After the indicated date, the bandage will be considered "clean" even if the package is unopened, because the packaging is not guaranteed to keep the bandage in sanitized condition longer than that. It's kept and is still useful, but can no longer be stored with the other sanitary bandages. The same thing in reverse can describe your clothes. Detergents and agitation are not enough to take dirty laundry and sanitize them, but they will make them clean.
Yeah i totally agree, i also have a grudge about the killing power of soap against bacteria/viruses
Soap absolutly can kill bacteria and such because they have a cellmembrane made out of oil. in addition with the of the agitation the washer can reduce the amount of germs on cloth in a significant way
@@Patrick-ih9nusometimes i just spray my hand sanitizer at my clothes i dunno if it does anything but i feel less smelly so 😂🤷🏻♀️
Hell let alone sanitizing, all of this still prevents deseess by removing food for bacterial reproduction, the actual thing that causes problems.
What's the point in sanitizing your clothes when there is already multiple strains of deseese causing bacteria in your digestive tract? Are you gonna sanitizer your stomach with bleach now?
Yeah, this episode is a bit too dramatic.
Would love to see a video about the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of fabric softener
ngl, I was surprised to find out that adding sanitisers wasn’t common in the laundering process. I’ve been using sanitisers just when hand washing my underwear during menstration since I was 10. Not to mention hot water often times makes stains stay in the fibres of the fabric (menstrual blood be gone!)
I have never felt such a relief to know that I have solved a problem I didn’t even have by letting my clothes dry outside 😂
Yea it’s great but the clothes always fall over and get dirt on them which isn’t very clean
@@saltycube just use hangers or clips
@@zenothing5068 the rack falls over
@@saltycube then you're doing something wrong
Lol same.
MatPat finding more stuff to scare us
I like this guy, information with a chuckle.🌟
This is such a solid video!
As someone who has never had a clothes dryer, I always forget they are a thing, and when Mat mentioned using the sun I completely thought I missed something
Sun drying method is meta in Asian continent.
@@IAARPOTIand South America
@@Naharu. wow you guys used that
@@IAARPOTI And Africa and middle east
@@IAARPOTI And large parts of Europe. Never used a dryer in my life.
Glad to know that me and my mom's (we're the ones obsessed with laundry) method of doing laundry has always been right: wash undergarments separate, wash the towels separate, wash the beddings separate and wash the over-clothes separate and from the latter to the former in increasing temperatures. AND don't wear shirts or sweaters without undershirts, because you need to protect your clothes from your sweaty body so they can last longer.
Also I always wear a tank top and tights under my usual clothes. Honestly I don't really have a reason for it, it started out as a sensory thing as a kid so I didn't have to feel certain clothes textures + my pants always felt too thin. (I'm autistic /srs) As I've gotten older i still do it, even when the texture of my clothes are fine just out of habit. After reading this comment though it does make me realize that wearing the leggings and tanktop under my clothes does help them stay clean more often.. I never actually thought about it that way. Coolness
I mean, according to the vid, the washer itself gets contaminated too 😅
13:43 As a person living in the PNW, I can confirm that it is almost always raining
i love when a theory ends by recommending a course of action i already do, lol. ive always airdried laundry, we dont even own a dryer, glad to hear it was one of the best options in terms of sanitation anyway
Who ever thought washing machines disinfect clothes?
They're supposed to remove dirt and stains, which he even says they do really well. I never even considered them clothes sanitizers.
I did which is why I press the sanitize button on the machine
Matpats video is a little misleading. If you have clothes with more natural fibers, they will be cleaned better. Read some of the other comments, they might make you feel better
I figured they did because of how toxic and hazardous detergent is quite honestly. I figured something in it would break down the cell walls or something.. I figured it was a given.. It makes no sense to me so I'm thankful I stumbled across this as I am terminal ill and at a very high risk of infection. Had a high WBC last week on my blood test so I'm constantly fighting something.
Now I know!
I use a sanitizer on top of detergent for certain loads of laundry like sheets and towels.
I did, why else am I washing my cloth masks? Plus underwear!!
Being from the Caribbean where most of us handwash with brushes and dry our clothes on clothing lines in the sun this just makes me even more against washing machines and dryers lol 😅
My laundry sound went off right as he talked about the laundry sound. (Yk, the sound it makes when it’s done)
The problem is that most of us are mistakenly believing that cleaning is synonymous with sanitizing or disinfecting. It is not. I did not learn this until a few years ago, when I'd been thoroughly reviewing the front and back labels of all purpose cleaners while shopping. I was hoping to find something I could use in both kitchen and bathroom, countertops and floors... I noticed several products were labeled as cleaners and sanitizers, and/or had instructed the customer to clean up the area prior to using the product. I also noticed that there were always very specific instructions for sanitizing or disinfecting.
The fact that this got posted right after I switched my laundry is outstanding 💀💀
Oooooooooffff......
The other issue with drying clothes outside for some of us is the pollen and allergies
I've been putting sanitiser in every wash for a coupel years now, mainly because it made everything smell a lot better. Leaving the door of the machine open after washing to dry out helps too
It appears to me that I've been drying my clothes in the most efficient way possible without even realizing it. How wonderful
my thought exactly
Interesting laundry facts, but I think I'm just going to let my immune system keep taking care of it.
As long as washing gets the stains and oils out then that's fine with me.
I agree. We probably live too clean already anyway. So I'll embrace my laundry bacteria and let my immune system do what it was created for. I've been washing with low temperatures (30-40 °C) all my life and my clothes smell fine and I don't get sick easily.
I ❤ my tonsils!!
Detergent does clean your clothes. It doesn’t disinfect them. If you had a virus you should disinfect not clean.
Started using laundry sanitizer because I found that my clothes smell 10x better afterwards. It helps remove odor that's more deeply set in. Love the stuff. Highly recommend
Run an empty hightemp cycle on your washing maschine
What kind do you use and recommend? :3
honestly was shocked to find out most only use detergent, at minimum i use 3 products; a santizer, fabric softer, and detergent that specifically kills germs. so luckily this video doesny apply to me xd
If you can't find or afford laundry sanitizer, I found cheap vodka to be a great addition to laundry when I need to get tough smells out. Especially for gym socks. White vinegar also works well on day-to-day and is extremely cheap.
And the smell is never on the clothes after washing.
@@omgwtfbbq767 I believe straight white vinegar can be a bit bad for your washing machine, but Distilled White Vinegar is supposed to be great at sanitizing and softening clothes!
Great information!
13:00 yeah except if there’s basically any humidity if there’s anything possibility for mold to grow it will.
I have problems with stubborn sweat stains making my clothes stink even though I wash them every week, so I've been using white vinegar and laundry sanitizer for a while now since I read that the smell is caused by built up bacteria. Nice to know that my clothes are actually CLEAN clean as well as smelling much better
You didn't mention using White Vinegar. It's a less expensive and easy way to kill bacteria and germs. Baking soda is great for removing odor. These are inexpensive ways to get clean results. In fact, you can use 1/2 a cup of each & get rid of laundry detergent. Adding baking soda instead of fabric softener during the rinse cycle. It doesn't make your clothes as soft but it does soften and removes odor. 😊
I use this too, it keeps the toddler stink off my sons clothes and definitely makes my clothing softer (if it’s natural fibers, polyester or nylon is a whole other beast lol)
@@rayebeard ruins the rubber gaskets tho :(
so i replace 2 teaspoons of detergent with 1 cup of vinegar or what?
If you use a half cup of each, aren't you just making spicy water because the acid and the base neutralize?
using baking soda and vinegar together makes no sense though, In assuming the vinegar kills bacteria because it's an acid, and if you mix a base like baking soda to acid, you just make it useless
Hahaha, out of all the chores in my house, the three Mat listed right away are the ones I do most in my family! I like washing dishes, doing laundry and cleaning the bathroom. And vacuuming.
This is definetly making me consider the length's I'll go to when washing my clothes when I own my own washing machine (ie when I have my own house)
As a germaphobe, I was scared shitless until the ending 💀
I could have written this ep lol. I use the laundry sanitizer personally bc hot water can shrink things and I have too much pollen to line dry and not enough sunny windows. It also helps to run an occasional hot empty cycle with bleach and an extra empty hot rinse cycle with detergent to clean the machine. White vinegar added to a load can kill some germs and act as a fabric softner too BUT it also slowly degrades the rubber seals and hoses in your machine so like, only use it on the worst loads, like furry towels.
Can you do a video on bioenzyme based skin and laundry cleaners, fertilizers etc?
Bro I love how he makes me aware to problems and then tell me it doesn't affect me
Can we talk about white vinegar the washer? Does it help at all to kill the germs? Does it really soften the clothes better than store bought softeners? Make this a laundry part 2, please!
Yeah that's what I was thinking, but I hadn't finished the video yet, so I was hoping he'd address it😂 I wash in cold or occasionally warm, but do an extra rinse with 1/2 to 1 cup of vinegar depending on how smelly the clothes are. I think it helps but I haven't done any actual experiments to compare anything 😂
I'd love a part 2 on this
Well at least it attacks the rubber in your washing machine so you can buy a new one sooner when the old one breaks...
Yeah we use vinegar
Feel like it can’t possibly. Vinegar is usually something like 3% acetic acid, and when you add a cup to gallons of water, that’s like 0.03% acid. It’d be close to neutral ph.
Option #4: Don't actually change anything. In all my life, I have NEVER gotten sick from wearing clothes that went through a washer and dryer. Most people's bodies are more than capable of handling whatever germs might survive a wash cycle. That all of this is true falls into the category of neat science facts that these channels are known for, but to say you now have to change things and even spend more money to do it or you're going to get sick (even though you're really not) is nothing more than fearmongering at its worst.
Very true.
And! Certain materials have to be washed and dried certain ways. It's not like I can just change those materials. I do a lot of line drying already just because my clothes can't go through a dryer. Loved your take on this.
well the problem is not only getting sick, it's also skin health etc
@@slvaltva1392 do you have skin problems? You can wash your clothes different then.
Furthermore, 'clean' and 'sanitary' aren't the same thing! Clean means the dirt and oils and such were removed, and thus the washer and dryer DO IN FACT clean your clothes! They don't, and have never claimed to, sanitize! I'm actually a little annoyed that the two terms are used synonymously at points in this video despite ALSO have the clarification of the difference in the video. (pedantic rant over)
as a person who loves to do laundry, always washes hot, never uses blue detergent, and prefers to dry outside instead of the dryer I have never felt so vindicated!
Now you need to do several test washes with different detergents to see which one get the cloths the cleanest with different settings.
Chemical based vs Plant based vs Natural vs other
MatPat: the best solution is to expose your laundry to the sun instead
SEA Households, with our budget-conscious habits: how tf else do we dry clothes?
lol fr
Should do a video testing out what brands and settings will actually clean your clothes!
I just sent this video to my mom. Something tells me lots of my clothes will be hanging in front of windows to dry XD
While this all makes sense, I’ve heard that dryers have been directly linked to the reduction in skin infections and parasites in third world countries, things that air drying or the sun maybe wouldn’t kill, but the extreme heat of the older dryers that are being donated or sold are killing off.
I was waiting for it to be mentioned how we use wayyy too much detergent and it and ESPECIALLY fabric softeners can cause hidden layers in the drum that can grow bacteria and give terrible smells to some clothes.
The recommended amount of detergent on bottles is pretty much always a 5-20x over what should be used to get you to keep buying more
yeah my washing machine says to use 1-2 tablespoons, and 1 seems to be working fine
As long as you wash in either hot or warm water, you’ll never have issues with clothes not coming clean. Have a Whirlpool washer from 1963 that I did a complete tear down 2 years ago, you’d think there would be all kinds of buildup after nearly 60 years. To my surprise, there was barely, if any buildup at all. Only “buildup” there was so to speak was some hard water deposits on the surfaces of the outer tub and that was it. Only conclusion I could come up with is all the temperatures are built into the machine which are hot and warm, definitely helped keep the machine clean since detergents work best in hot or warm water despite what the marketing says about cold water washes.
Don't use fabric softener at all, when I worked in Aeronautical we were given anti-static clothes but told never to wash them with fabric softener as it would destroy the treatment.
I think this channel should also go over design in art or company
You should find out if fabric softener works. Or if it's a scheme by big laundry.
What I took from this as an Aussie, was that the Hills Hoist is actually a very useful and important invention in cleaning clothes
You mean a clothes line? I dont know how any aussie can call it smth else
@@crashharmonyroberson5076 the Hills Hoist is a very specific clothesline invented by an Aussie. It has a central pole with four metal bars branching off the top, which the clothes lines are hung between. The design allows it to raise up and down to allow for easier hanging and ensuring it isn’t in the way, and also has the ability to rotate.
@@79cats90 last I checked, I didn’t ask for the info
Clothing is made so cheaply now that it *has* to be washed in cold, or it’ll either bleed and/or return to the fibers it was made from. Laundry sanitizer (and a clothesline if possible) is our best bet.
I wash everything at 60 degrees. Works quite well.
The weak stuff dies and goes to the bin. It's like darwinism.
Laundry sanitizers are unnecessary and a huge environmental risk, don't use them!
MatPat runing how I do my laundry since 2023 gametheory ruining my child hood ever since 2012 lol loving the full circle
this ep made me cry
I suddenly feel quite validated about my choice to always use the hot water cycle and always leave the empty washer open.
Also that is why there are signs all over our college laundry rooms that say to keep the washer doors open
The hot setting depends on your clothes. Dark clothes, clothes with printed designs, and clothes made of 100% cotton(or similar material), are all clothes you should wash on the cold setting, as washing with hot water can cause wear on the print, fade the pigment, or cause the material to shrink.
I'm just a bit mouth-agape that Americans don't use washing powder. We have been working on making it more soluble and reducing it's wastage like Smol capsules but like washing detergent as liquid does sweet FA. I mean literally wow.... 😮
@@Firegen1 I'm not American and I do use powder detergent
@@Firegen1 A lot of the machines here work better with liquid detergents (per the instructions, anyway.) Frankly I will use whichever gives me the most bang for my buck.