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End Static Cling Six Ways
By Annie B. Bond
The heat is on at my house and the air is dry—and the other day my favorite skirt was bunching up around my knees in a most unattractive way. I won’t use commercial fabric softeners because the chemicals and fragrances literally make me sick. What to do? I turned to the wisdom of Annie Bond to find out how to eliminate static cling easily, inexpensively, and naturally. Now my skirt hangs smoothly once again!
Here are Annie’s six simple tips for getting rid of that nasty static cling:
1. Add either 1/4 cup of vinegar or 1/4 cup of borax to your wash cycle.
2. Add 1/4 cup vinegar to your rinse cycle.
3. Use an eco-friendly fabric softener (seventh Generation and Ecover make good ones). These are made with vegetable-based surfactants, salt, and natural scents rather than chemicals that cause headaches and other health woes, and environmental damage.
4. Natural-fiber clothing is less susceptible to static cling, so purchase natural materials as much as possible.
5. As soon as you take your clothes out of the drier, shake them out.
6. If your clothes are already clean and dry and they’re clinging, use the metal hanger trick:
For skirts or dresses, put the garment on, then reach up inside it with a metal hanger and brush the inside of the garment, top to bottom.
For pants, elongate the hanger and reach up inside each pant leg, brushing downward.
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add your comment »I hope someone can enlighten me about a product. I am thinking of purchasing the blue rubber orbs with little spiky protrusions all over them to use instead of dryer sheets. Do they also help with static cling? If not, what is their purpose?
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Hey there, Not sure about repelling hairs, but I've been using vinegar for years and don't seem to have a great prob w/my pets when I wear natural fibers, but there are still some, especially depending on the weave. When I've tried Bounce, I still had hair (but keep reading & I'll give you a tip). And not only are dryer sheets really bad environmentally, they're also really bad for our health too, everyone's, not just asthma sufferers. Studies in both Britain and Canada show this, so does evidence of American's health compared to other countries. There's too much money to be lost here to let that cat out of the bag. The tip that works great for me is to wet a rag, or sometimes even just my hand in a pinch in a public bathroom, and rub off the hairs. That works as good for me as a sticky tape role does. Good luck and hang in there!
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Do we know if the vinegar remedy will repel dog and cat hair as well as a Bounce fabric softener sheet? And how well do expensive work clothes last when you are adding vinegar to the wash cycle?
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