Fmeh

Well, I now know that I can't take clothing to the laundromat unless I JUST wash clothing there and then dry them some other way.

Fabric softener is getting so strong and concentrated, OR people are using more than they're supposed to, that I can't use the same dryers or my clothes will not only stink up the house, but I'll get hives from them.

4 different dryers and they all made the clothes and bedding come out smelling like a dryer sheet was put into them, and they all have that NASTY oily feel to them that fabric softener has.

I may have to throw out two comforters, a set of sheets, and a thick jacket now because I don't know if I'll be able to get all this out of them. I just can't believe how strong they're making fabric softener now, and how wash resistant it has become.

I just can't believe how reliant people have become on things that smell.

It amazes me that people can't see fabric softener for what it is: scented oil, OIL that you're putting all over your clothes that eventually turn your white shirts yellowish because of all the things that stick to the oil that is on your clothing, in addition to subjecting your body to chemicals you have no idea what they are.

When your hair is so clean that it's staticky, is the first thing you do is to put grease or oil in your hair? It's staticky and irritating because it's clean, why not just gloop some oil in it so it's no longer staticky? Why not? Why do you do it to your clothing?

How many people have actually read the ingredient list of fabric softener? Why not? This is something you have next to your skin 23 1/2 hours a day unless you're a nudist.

They're making the products so strong that when people do laundry at their home and they use some of these new fabric softeners, it can be smelled from 4 blocks away. FOUR BLOCKS!

Needless to say, when my neighbors do laundry, I have to close all the windows and not do anything outside unless I want respiratory problems and hives. I'm starting to get really angry at the companies putting this garbage out. It's getting as intrusive as cigarette smoking--to where the smell is strong enough and has drenched people's clothing enough to where if people come over who have used it, it stinks up everything around in a similar way to the way that smoke attaches itself to things. It's almost like Glade plug-ins that are pretty much the worst product for making everything stink that has been around it for more than 30 seconds.

I don't know of any cologne or perfume that has that kind of effect--the closest thing is that fucked up body spray that drenches people's clothing so when they sit on your furniture, they've made that furniture smell like their body spray. I don't let those people in my house--I tell them that if they want to come over they'll have to refrain from using body spray. I'm not going to get sick just from being in my own house because someone who thinks everyone wants everything to smell like their cologne decided such.

Sorry, but I'm just upset right now over having to throw away bedding that was perfectly good before it was washed at the laundromat and it's making me think about how ridiculously reliant people have become on scented products--it's like we're a bunch of fragrance addicts or something. You just have to refrain from scented products for just a few days and then be around a raw sewage manhole cover to know that "our shit now smells like roses".

But seriously--how many of you who use fabric softener actually read the ingredient list? Do they even give you an ingredient list that gives you any real indication of what's in it? Or do you just blindly trust corporations enough to believe that it's going to be fine (and you've never read the ingredients)? I know I'm kind-of harsh here, talking badly about a type of product that SO many people use, but it's one of those products that really makes no sense at all--if you want your clothes to be clean, why put oil all over them? Something is staticky because it's clean. Is it so people can smell your "clean clothes" from 50 feet away? What's the purpose? What's your reasoning for using fabric softener? Have you never thought about it before?

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