A Bleach Free Life, It Means No Worries

Completing a load of laundry makes you feel great. You know that your clothes are going to feel clean and fresh during your daily wear over a busy work week. However, have you ever opened up your dryer only to find the dismaying surprise of bleach speckled clothing? It happens to the best of us. One day you'll be bleaching your towels, bed linens, or even your clothing - and the next time you go to use your washing machine you've completely forgotten about the prior cycle. The leftover bleach does its dirty work and ruins your favorite articles of clothing.

In this article we are going to look into natural, color safe alternatives that you can use to replace the process of routinely bleaching your clothing. Traditional chlorine based bleach is a known irritant of your respiratory system and your skin. You deserve to be able to breathe safely when you're completing your laundry, and especially when you're cleaning your home. You've Got Maids makes it a priority not to use bleach on any of your household surfaces when our maids clean your house. We only use environmentally safe cleaning products on your surfaces, and especially your flooring. If you have a small child in your family, you obviously want them to be safe and healthy the entire time they are in your home. If they're crawling around on flooring cleaned with a chlorine based bleach, you never know what sort of sensitivity they may incur. Let's take a look at how bleach chemically interacts with your clothing. We'll follow that up with a list of natural bleach alternatives that are sure to make you feel safe and healthy.

Start making decisions that allow your home to be even healthier, and ultimately happier than it already is. These tips will make you feel great about completing your weekly laundry, The Ultimate Guide to an Efficient Laundry Room.

Pillage your Fabric Pilling!

Fabric pilling happens to the best of us. Your favorite sweater will eventually fall prey to the distasteful look of pilling, arm yourself with the tips and tricks this blog post contains and you'll be ready to fix it in no time. This occasional occurrence isn't isolated to wool by any means. Cotton, polyester, and other synthetic threads are common culprits. Pilling is a clothing defect that comes from normal wear and tear of the material. Although, it is more likely to happen when the fabric rubs against against itself. You'll find that the majority of your clothing items will develop pills in the same places, time after time. These areas should be your first target for maintenance. Check around the collar of the garment, under the arms, across the chest, and anywhere else that might experience normal abrasion from wear. Check out the following instructions for fixing the garment when it eventually occurs, as well as preventative steps to reduce the chance that your fabric pilling will ever happen.

We'll show you how to clean your clothes using healthier products, and easier method. Click through to our Ultimate Guide to an Efficient Laundry Room.

Clear the Clutter, and Your Mind

Your laundry room receives a lot of traffic throughout the week. With all of the various loads of laundry that needs to run through both the washer, and then the dryer, it can become a chaotic environment. Those with a large family know exactly how disorganized a laundry room can become in a very short time. If you have systems in place to organize the clean, dirty, whites, darks, and colors - you may find yourself feeling a lot less stressed out about all the laundry that needs to be finished. When an organizational system is implemented in a specific household room, order and regulation follow. Let's take a look at a variety of different methods you can use to streamline your laundry process and free up some mental space. You don't need to spend your time stressing about the piles of laundry taking over your laundry room.

We want to free up your personal time, so that you can spend your time doing the things that really matter to you. You'll like what you're about to read in this post, so after you're done, follow through and click on our Ultimate Guide to Cleaning Your Laundry Room. 

Bring Back That Fresh Linen Scent

Even though laundry rooms are frequently visited by piles of clothes that bear all sorts of interesting odors, they should always smell great afterwards. You might think that your laundry room is starting to smell bad due to the accumulation of laundry. That very well may be the case if you have a mountain of dirty gym clothes hidden in the back corner. However, that peculiar odor may be coming from where you least expect it to be from. Your first step should be to open up the top of your washing machine and give it a sniff. If it's smelling strange, your clothes aren't going to be as fresh as they potentially could be. Let's make your washing machine smell fresh again. After our quick cleaning process, you'll once again be looking forward to putting on a shirt that smells like clean linen every morning.

If you learn something new from this easy read, take a peek at our Ultimate Guide to an Efficient Laundry Room.