Fabric softener coats fabric fibers with compounds that leave them feeling silkier to the touch and reduces static cling. Overuse of fabric softener makes fabrics less absorbent and breathable ...

Consumer Reports offers tips on how to make your clothes soft and nice-smelling from your washing machine (without the gross residue) If you want to make your clothes soft, skip the fabric ...

You may want to re-think how much fabric softener you’re using when you wash your clothing. At least, that’s the message popular TikToker Ann Russell (@annrussell03) shared in a recent clip.

For me, using fabric softener is necessary when I do laundry. I use it to ensure my clothing smells as good as possible and feels just as good. This is why knowing how to wash bed linen is ...

And if you’ve accidentally left facial tissue in your pockets and it’s ended up all over your laundry, rerunning the load with fabric softener can help, says Carolyn Forte, executive director ...

Wool dryer balls, air drying, and aluminum foil balls can be used in the dryer with the same results as fabric softener. Commercial fabric softeners can serve many purposes, from reducing static ...

Fabric softener – do you need it? Soft, fresh-smelling clothes, free of static and wrinkles is what the ads promise. Don’t buy it and your clothes will be hard, stale-smelling, creased and ...

Fabric softener is notoriously divisive. In fact, when we interviewed Rich Handel, a test project leader at Consumer Reports who specializes in laundry, about the things he would never do as a ...