can you wash clothes thoroughly without using hot water

I only use cold water. Hot water shrinks your clothes, fades colors.

add vinegar

It costs about a $.50 to heat the water if you have a gas water heater.

Just turn the hot water back in when using the washer and turn it off once it is filled.

I despise the petroleum chemical fragrance that they put in fabric softener liquid. The fabric softener dryer sheets stink the worst.

I put white vinegar in the rinse to get all of the soap out of the laundry and it makes the laundry soft. I don't want my clothes to smell like a cheap French whore.

White vinegar removes the soap residue from the laundry and makes the laundry soft without adding scents that men don't like.

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You have to be very thorough, repeat the rinsing cycle often (this does not mean using a lot of water necessarily - just make sure to rinse several times).

It's like with rinsing a bottle. Using 0.1 l water 5 consecutive times, each time shaking the bottle thoroughly, will be more effective than filling the bottle once.

Why not make it an expensive one? I'm sure there are expensive French whores.

Yes with additives cold water works very well. For example you can soak your laundry in the washer with OxiClean for a bit before washing. You can also add the laundry detergent boosters borax and or ammonia for extra germ killing and cleaning results.

I always use cold water. Hot water will shrink your clothes. And will shrink expensive 100 per cent cotton sheets to the point where they no longer fit your bed. You only need hot water if you are washing cloth diapers. Remember them?

Kochwaesche - German word, cook-temp laundry

is the only temp for things that must be truly clean, as opposed to just LOOKING clean.

sheets, towels, etc.


hot water for washing is the only way to kill or reduce germs on it.



unless maybe you wash your clothes in ammonia

Cold water only gets germs wet

you have a god given mind.... use it... how are the clothes coming out?

really.. cold water can drown them you know.

me too, have NEVER used hot water for my laundry.
i do so much laundry my electric bill would be sky high if i did!!
simply this, dont overload and if it doesnt come out clean the first time, just wash it again.
use bleach for whites if they are stained or need extra help.
plus a hot dryer..
im good.

I wash almost everything in hot water.

I think the heat of the dryer will kill the germs??

I always wash with cold water. Rather than detergent I use a few "glugs" of white vinegar and a few dashes of an equal mix of tee tree , eucalyptus and lavender essential oils that I made. Ocasionally, a half cup of Borax Mule Team for the whites.

It's the agitation that cleans the clothes.

People all over the world since laundry was a thing have been down at the river washing their clothes.

We have been brain washed into thinking we need hot water and toxic chemicals to get "Clean".

I use cold water and seldom use soap for lightly soiled clothing, And haven't noticed much difference. But that is due to issues with contact dermatitis when I use detergent.

I only use hot water for showers. There's no need to have hot water running all over the house. I shut it off unless I'm taking a shower.

I've used cold water only in a washer for the last 20 years.