Key Points Sort sheets, pre-treat stains, and wash on the right temp and gentle cycle.Dry on low heat or line-dry; wash every 1–2 weeks (more often if needed).Skip bleach and softeners; treat stains ...

Over the course of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidance on everything from how to minimize your risk of contracting COVID-19 at the grocery store to ...

Washing clothes and other laundry should make it all smell great, right? Not always. Sometimes, freshly washed laundry still smells sour — something that we absolutely won't stand for, and you don't ...

I started writing about cleaning in 2020, and one of my favorite parts of the job has been interviewing cleaning pros to find ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended every aspect of our lives, including something as routine as doing laundry. How do you handle the laundry of someone with COVID-19, ...

The average American family does roughly 300 loads of laundry a year, according to Energy Star. Any way you spin that, it’s a lot of time spent doing laundry. So how can you save time and still get ...

Our laundry habits might be doing even more harm to the environment than we realized. More than 700,000 microscopic fibers are released into the water every time we do a load of laundry, and many of ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

So long, dingy whites and faded darks! Here's how to separate laundry so your clothes come out of the wash clean and bright. Mary Gagliardi, a laundry scientist at Clorox, agrees that even though ...

Too cheap to send my laundry out, too pressed for time to sit in a commercial laundromat, I lamented my lame attempts to do hand laundry on the road in the Sept. 1 On the Spot column (“Dirty Little ...