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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I wonder if my laundry habits can be laid at the door of my paternal Grandmother.....Ok, they didn't have the modern detergents.....she grated olive soap, boiled her sheets in a Slaxone copper boiler.........and used bleach. I loved the smell of the boiling sheets and pillow cases.........and used to help her put the sheets through the mangle.
She would lift the laundry out of the boiler with wooden tongs into a dolly tub of cold water .....swish the sheets around using a posser........then we would fold the sheets and put them through the mangle( a couple of times)....isn't it a good job the floor in the kitchen was stone flags....oh yes, and she wore clogs too.
That's my laundry story.
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Me too .. been there, done all that and slung the sheets across the line in the back street after (clothes rack in Winter)....
Technology has moved on though and the main criteria is to attack the stains which modern detergents do without bleaching. You have been very lucky if your sheets are not showing any rotting of the fibres. Try shoving your nail through your sheet and see what happens.
Egyptian cotton sheets are not always the best .. can be manufactured in Egypt, but the yarn can be from elsewhere.
You are just wasting energy and bleach by taking them up to 90 degrees.
Why do you feel the need to bleach cotton sheets anyway ? Not like they get too dirty and should stay whiter than white even at 50 degrees wash
