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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s a little-known fact that fabric softener has a purpose outside the laundry room. Aside from softening fabrics, adding a pleasant scent, and reducing static cling, fabric softener is also an ...

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 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 ...