Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

Please stop using "disposable" cloths - they are NOT disposable! We have a duty and care to the environment. As long as you use soap, then germs will not survive - we don't wash our hands at 60 or 90 degrees and they are covered in germs. No need to use 90 degrees - ever! Again, think hard about what kind of environment/world we will leave our grandkids! (Rant over)

I soak e cloths sponges floor cleaning cloths etc and wash separately in the machine as they don't 'work' if you use fabric conditioner.

I machine wash my cleaning cloths in a separate load, and my dog bedding is put inside a Moorland Rider Pet Bedding Wash Bag which keeps my washing machine totally free of pet hair.

I pop the dishcloth in the microwave for a minute during the day. Then put it in with the washing when doing tea towels etc.

I use cheap IKEA flannels for my cloths and wash them at 90 together with tea towels and hankies with a prewash. Use washing soda as an additive because our water is so hard. All come out remarkably well.

MerylStreep

I'm wondering what heinously filthy objects these tea towels have come in contact with that they need to boiled within an inch of their lives.

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In the good old days before vegetables came pre-washed in plastic bags a washing machine repairman said he had been to a home to a broken machine and found the drain system completely blocked with soil. The owners of the machine admitted to owning a fish and chip shop and using the machine daily to clean the potatoes. He didn’t say whether anything else got ‘washed’ in it.

Socks, jumpers and bras at 40 degrees, everything else together at 60 degrees. Nobody ever ill and it is all clean. I'm shocked by the amount of single use, throw away stuff people are still using. Most of it contains plastic. Also when people have so many different loads they must either wait for ages to make a full load or put the machine on with very little in it which is very bad for the environment, wasting water and power. My cleaning cloths are an old terry cotton dressing gown cut up and dishcloths are old cotton vests, which do get bleach sometimes but mostly just go in the washing machine.

Mapau I have just seen your post.
I am pleased I am not alone.

I don't use bleach but use the stuff that is for sterilising babies bottles ,for my dishcloths.
I crochet my own (how sad is that ?.)
I once went into a shop to ask if they sold dishcloth cotton and was met with a blank stare.
I then had to explain and the look on the assistant's face when I told her what I wanted it for and said how could people make their own dishcloths if shops like their's didn't sell the cotton was a picture.
I also use diluted sterilising liquid to clean surfaces in the kitchen.

I'm wondering what heinously filthy objects these tea towels have come in contact with that they need to boiled within an inch of their lives.

One or two people have said they wash underwear separately. Surely you can’t get a machine full doing that, can you, unless you’ve a big family to wash for or a huge stock of knickers?

I use micro cloths to clean the kitchen and bathroom, different colours so I don't mix them up. I put them in a wash together each week using Dettol laundry aid instead of softener. Tea towels go in any white wash at 40 but I iron them on max, with steam. We remain disgustingly healthy.

I use paper kitchen towels to dry my hands. I let dishes and cups drain - no wiping. My dad always said 'a clean wash is better than a dirty wipe' . My cleaning cloths are soaked in bleach solution and washed by hand. Always done this and has served me well during covid.

I soak all tea towels and cleaning cloths in biotex or nappisan before laundering. I change them every day.
They get washed on a 60 degree white wash or if coloured( usually microfibres) a 40 wash. Everything gets hung on the line ( weather permitting) for a dose of sunshine.
I cut old tea towels in half and use them for dirty jobs ( car cleaning/ silver polishing) and they get thrown away. Old cotton t shirts get cut into rags for these jobs too.

My laundry’s separated into just two categories, coloureds are done at 40 degrees, whites at 60, both on economy wash cycles. I have tried washing at 30 degrees, but the results weren’t brilliant. I peg everything out whenever possible and never use disposable cloths or wipes.

I crochet my own from dishcloth cotton they go in 90° wash with towels or cotton bedding

I hate that dishcloths get discoloured so occasionally soak in bleach. Like others if the cloth is of a similar colour to what I’m washing (lights or dark loads) it usually goes in together. I have to say I use quick wash as our stuff is never that dirty on 30/40 . My daughter on the other hand thinks clothes need more washing than that and washes on a two hour wash! I can’t go with that ....too long and really (we used to hand wash in a sink!) We haven’t gone down with anything yet and I think I’m fairly clean obsessed!

I bleach my wash cloths. Gave up on dishwashers and wash up by hand now. Used to put them in a bowl in biological washing powder in the microwave to heat up for 20 mins but don’t do that now as energy saving conscious.

I use a dishwasher, and so don’t use cloths to wash up much; J-cloths can go through the clothes-washer a few times, the kitchen sink sponge fits neatly into the cutlery holder in the dishwasher, and the washing up brush goes on the top deck.

In marmalade season I wash the oranges and lemons in the dishwasher on the top deck with no detergent.

Cleaning cloths in with other washing on a hot wash adding Dettol Antibacterial to the wash.

One wash for towels/t/towels/flannels an hour and half at 60.
One for beddingat 60. one for undies and one for the normal clothing 40/50.

Wash them with towels and tea towels on a 90 wash

Mine go in with everything else but I put Zoflora in with most washes so think that’s ok?

I just need to rant at DH who has put a yellow duster in the wash with my newest white bra!!
It has come out 2 tone, yellow and white (the bra not the duster) Grr.

As for washing: Everything together, after inspection, and tissues removed from pockets, at 30c wash and hung up in the sunshine and wind to dry on the pully indoors
Sink cloths I occasionally boil in washing up liquid for a few minutes.

I have been known to do a "dirty" wash from time to time but I never use bleach just Ecover or other harmless products.