There are more benefits to washing laundry in cold water than you may realize. Thankfully, the days when dirty laundry was thrown in a big pot and boiled with lye soap to get it clean are gone. (No ...

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Separate your wash by color. Use hot water for whites and cold water for darks. Standard laundry instructions right? Wrong. Times have changed, as have our washing machines, laundry detergents and ...

Running hot water in the washing machine can run up your energy bill. But do you actually need to crank up the temperature to clean your clothes? A laundry expert explains. In a video with over ...

So, you're adding a mound of dirty laundry to your washing machine when you realize—you’re completely out of detergent. Rats! Rather than running to the store at breakneck speed, consider ways for ...

Homemakers in the 19th century had to devote most of a day to washing clothes each week: hauling and heating water, scrubbing ...