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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 ...

What is this function for, anyway? Your washing machine is full of settings you likely never use, like the hand wash cycle. For a standard load, you probably turn it to "normal" or some equivalent ...

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When it comes to cleaning a beloved silk blouse, wool sweater, velvet jacket or lacy bra, you want to give these “delicate” items the TLC they need. But you may not know what that means. Should you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...