Buy laundry baskets and separate your clothing based on colour. Separate white laundry from your coloured laundry to prevent your favourite white shirt from turning salmon pink. Also pay attention to the material! Delicate laundry (for example woollen clothing), normal laundry (shirts and T-shirts) and heavy laundry (towels and socks) are best washed separately. For the delicate laundry there is a special wool programme on your washing machine, normal laundry can be washed at 30 or 40 degrees and the heavier laundry may be washed at higher temperatures.
Finely woven knits of cotton may also be run on a wool wash or delicate wash with a low spin speed (max 800) and at 30 degrees Celsius. You don't need to worry, your clothing gets just as clean at 30 degrees. The low spin speed prevents the fibres of your clothing from being pulled apart during spinning. As a result, your jumpers and cardigans will shrink less quickly.
If you don't have a partner who does it, then check the contents of your pockets yourself and empty them. All those little bits and pieces that get left behind each time do the quality of your clothing no good. And your washing machine can also break down if metal objects or coins are left in it. It would also be a shame if you accidentally washed that nice leather wallet along with everything!
Make use of the handy dosing ball that many detergent manufacturers include with the bottle, and stick to it. Be sparing with your detergent! If there are no stains on your clothing, it is enough to use a maximum of half a ball of detergent. Too much soap is not good for anything. Using too much detergent is not only bad for your washing machine, but it can actually also cause stains on your clothing.
Read, gentlemen, read! And we don't mean Esquire, Carros, Men's Health or Elsevier, but rather that little label on the inside of your garment. It is very handy to know what the symbols hiding in the label of your garment mean. So take a minute and read the overview below carefully. Or print it out and stick it on your washing machine, then you'll never go wrong!
By following these tips, it should all work out, gentlemen. Before you go, we'd like to give you a few special household tips:
- Your bathroom can function perfectly well as a dry cleaner. You hang your clothing in your bathroom after a night out. During and after showering, it is steamed automatically and it's fresh again before you know it. Ideal for that woollen jumper that you'd rather not put in the washing machine.
- You shouldn't wash your jeans too often. Put your jeans in a pillowcase in your freezer now and then, and the cold of the freezer kills most bacteria without it discolouring or fading.
- Ox gall soap works perfectly for stubborn stains in (especially white) clothing. Dampen the stain, rub the soap onto the stain and let it soak in calmly. Then rinse well or wash it in the machine and the stain is gone. Ox gall soap is simply available at the supermarket.
- Letting your clothing dry flat is best for knits of wool or cotton.
If you have any questions, you can always turn to our colleagues in the shop or via our customer service. In addition, you can find more information in our blog about the most common stains. Have you now really washed something wrong and is your white shirt no longer white or your favourite jumper too small after all? Then we still have a well-stocked webshop where you can definitely make a good catch!
