When I first did laundry for my husband, I completely ruined one of his shirts. I didn’t shrink it or dye it a different color (though that did happen with other clothes of his … oops), but I did ...

“Structured wool coats, leather, suede, heavily beaded garments, and items with glued construction should never go in a washing machine,” she says. “These are always best sent to a professional ...

Here’s how to use your appliance's settings to get cleaner clothes and help your items last longer.

If you want to help protect the environment, stop using the 'delicate wash' cycle on your washing machine, a new study suggests. Researchers with Newcastle University found the delicate wash cycle ...

Washing machines aren’t what they used to be. Some new appliances have over a dozen cycles, and then there are a slew of other things to consider, including water temperature, spin speed, cycle ...

The volume of water used during a wash cycle, rather than the spinning action of the washing machine, is the key factor in the release of plastic microfibres from clothes. Delicate wash cycles in ...

Wrongly using a delicate cycle for everyday laundry is causing hundreds of thousands of extra microfibres to be released into our water systems and end up in the sea, scientists have found. Although ...

Delicate wash cycles in washing machines found to release more plastic microfibres than other cycles. New research led by Newcastle University has shown that it is the volume of water used during the ...