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Fabric softener is a scam (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] NooBoY@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For me, nothing beats clothes hung dry that have been drying in the sun. It has its own unique smell to them.

[โ€“] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

You should enjoy the smell of them after they were freeze dried on the clothes line in the winter time. Growing up, my mother had a wringer/washer but no clothes drier. So she had to hang almost all the laundry outside on a clothes line-- even when it was well below freezing out. My Mother and Grandmother also made our own soap from tallow and lye after we butchered a cow for the winter.

We used it for everything, laundry, hand soap, and bath soap. Stuff would remove to hide off your ass due to the amount of lye used. Ahhh, the life of growing up dirt poor on a small farm.