![]() ![]() Gather the laundry that needs to be stripped. I recommend this method over some other methods as the ingredients are safe AND effective! Natural Laundry Stripping – NO bathtub required! If you have sheets, towels, cloth diapers, or any other laundry that you feel isn’t getting clean or might have some build-up trapped in the fibers, laundry stripping might be a good option. ![]() ![]() This isn’t something that I regularly do because I don’t find that I have build up from laundry products or minerals, but of course, every once in a while our sheets and towels need a good stripping and after seeing the results this is a process that I use if I feel like our laundry needs a deep clean.We have a community well and our whites can get a creamy tinge to them from time to time and this takes that away really easily. It’s a process! You can see more here but I recommend following the much easier method in this post! (I have a top load machine but I’ll give some tips for a front load machine as well.) It consists of filling the bathtub with hot water, soaking laundry, stirring and babysitting laundry, watching for that satisfying dirty water after about four hours, rinsing, and laundering as usual. You’ll see this method talked about regularly in cloth diapering groups and laundry forums. Traditionally speaking, stripping laundry is just removing any residue from some detergents and fabric softeners, or a build up of minerals from hard water that you aren’t able to remove from your laundry with traditional laundry washing methods. No hauling heavy tubs of wet laundry from a bathtub to the washing machine. It works, it’s definitely easier, and the best part is that you let the washing machine do the work for you. Have you tried the laundry stripping technique that’s been floating around the internet and in mom circles long before the internet? I shared a post over a year ago with directions for stripping your laundry naturally (linked below) and while it’s a method that works, I’ve been experimenting with laundry stripping IN THE WASHING MACHINE. ![]()
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