Jan 26, 2024 by HTV9
Washcloths Uses:
Fold into quarters and use as a soap dish
Use instead of a plastic scrubby to exfoliate skin in the shower or bath
When you get soap slivers, wet down the washcloth and rub the soap into the washcloth to use up the soap
Wipe down surfaces in the kitchen with dish soap and water and one washcloth. Dry with another. In between uses if you want them super clean, suds up dirty washcloths in the kitchen sink with dish soap, using rubber gloves rub them against themselves or one another, squeeze them out, drain, soak in hot water, drain, cover with boiling water for 20 minutes, drain. Or, launder them using a sanitize cycle or launder them then soak in boiling water in a sink, but for safety’s sake if you use washcloths like this a separate laundry machine and separate washcloths for kitchen use only are important
In theory, if you’re out of laundry detergent, you could rub half a bar of soap into a washcloth, add a handful of baking soda or 2 tbsp washing soda and/or borax if you got it and maybe a few squirts of dish soap, and use that instead. This could help with multiple chemical sensitivity or things like using greywater or being on a septic system if you omit everything but just the soap and dish soap and use fragrance-free biodegradable versions of those but I’m not sure. Will experiment.
Fraying Washcloth Uses:
Wipe down pots outdoors for container gardening between seasons
Wipe down door frames and windowsills outdoors
Use for general outdoor cleaning
Now how do you hem a T-shirt rag to prevent it from fraying all over the place? Sounds like an annoying time-consuming task to me. Maybe just using the T-shirt as is, as a rag, would be the solution. However I assume that if you did manage to hem some clean ones, you could stuff them in a jar with vodka and use those as sanitizing wipes.
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