What… ? Bar soap? Which coats your skin in wax and makes you feel like a walking crayon when you wash yourself with it?
No thanks, I’ll stick to my detergent and dryer sheets.
(which do work btw, I grew up poor without them and HATED the feeling of my clothes, and the static. Pissed me off all the time. Grew up, started making money, and bought dryer sheets, boom problem solved.)
If your fabric needs softening then maybe you just buy the wrong clothes.
I don’t use the shit. My clothes don’t wrinkle and they sure as fuck aren’t uncomfortable so all I can think of is you’re buying shitty clothes.
Actually its because you are buying shitty clothes why they dont wrinkle. Synthetic fabrics dont wrinkle.
Sounds like you’re upset that you found out how shitty your clothes are.
Better luck next time.
How expensive do people think fabric softener is lol. I don’t use it because I don’t care for it, but not buying it because you’re too poor sounds wild.
Just glancing through my grocery app, it’s anywhere from $5 to $15 per bottle, depending on size and brand. For the same amount of money, you could buy enough food for one person for 2 or 3 days. That’s not insignificant since you can get a pack of dryer balls for around the same price, which have pretty much the same effect, and last way longer than a bottle of softener.
And how long does that $5 last? Consider how much money it is per wash, especially if you use less than the quite generous recommendation.
I’m standing in a store right now and they go from 1,5€ to 6€. The expensive brand option with big bottle is 6,26€ and lasts for 110 washes with the recommended amount. The expensive one is 5,7 cents per wash.
6€ isn’t nothing but as an expense over time, considering how long it lasts, even that expensive one is quite literally pennies.
Looking at price-per-use is only helpful if you have it in your budget right then to spend the full amount. For some, they can’t spare that $5 on a frivolity because it’s allocated to a necessity like food.
where the fuck are these people buying detergent that is 80x the ingredients they listed? isn’t bar soap also industry made?
also I’m sorry maybe there’s legit uses for it but whenever I hear someone say essential oil I assume they’re knee deep in grlftland and have fucking crystals and shit all around the house.
So you just saw the words “essential oil” and quit reading? They’re using it to make their laundry smell good, not cure cancer.
Essential oils will not cure diseases or anything, but they are great for making things smell nice. I would give using these in a dryer ball a pass.
The price things gets me too. I was actually talking about this with a coworker a couple months ago. I live alone so I’m not doing nearly the amount of laundry that some people are doing but even then that last bottle of laundry detergent I bought cost me like 9 bucks and took a bit over 2 years to go through. I think I’m fine spending 4.50 a year on my laundry supplies.
It’s worth wondering how much fabric softener would cost someone over their adult lifetime as an exercise. Let’s say 50 years of adulthood, and 12 bottles a year costing $10 each. That’s six grand. For something that serves no functional purpose, makes towels less effective and has an environmental impact.
So yes it’s a scam. If someone really needs to use fabric softener, at least buy a cheaper supermarket brand and use it sparingly.
