The fresh new smell, crisp white shirts, and soft fuzziness of sweaters. The irresistible feeling of burying your nose in little clouds of happiness and taking a deep breath that somehow calms you down. That is the magic of fresh laundry. Too bad for us, the journey to reach this happiness is painfully frustrating. Let’s rewind a bit. It is Saturday morning, you laze around in bed scrolling through your phone, rolling left to right, and finally decide to get on with your weekend. Stretching out, squinting eyes heavy with sleep, the steps out of bed slam you right onto the laundry hamper. Yes, the hamper is so overfilled that it has a striking resemblance to ghostly silhouettes that scares the living daylights out of you every time you wake up in the middle of the night to it staring you right in the face. With a sigh, you promise to tackle this mountain of dirty laundry today…just after breakfast. Two hours later, breakfast dishes in the sink and you sprawled in front of the TV. It’s okay, there’s the whole day left to do it. The next time you return to the world of living it’s 6 pm, sunlight is long gone so the task shifts on to Sunday.
Well quite simply put, dry cleaning is washing clothes without using water and detergent. Despite its name, the process isn’t really ‘dry’. It is the preferred method for some fabrics like silk, wool, suede, leather, linen, and some others that are difficult to maintain and regular washing can cause them to shrink or stretch. They cannot handle the tumble and rigor of a washer-dryer. So, to clean these sensitive fabrics you need something that doesn’t penetrate the fibers like water causing them to stretch and change their structure. Therefore, dry cleaning uses chemical solvents that are highly effective at removing dirt and debris while maintaining the fiber structure. Three kinds of solvents can be used in this process, one of which is petroleum-based like gasoline or kerosene. This type of solvent is not very common as it is highly flammable and dangerous to use. Another chlorinated solvent that is quite commonly used is perchloroethylene or ‘perc’, but is carcinogenic to humans.
Sanitization has always been important in maintaining hygienic working or living conditions. The only difference earlier was perhaps that deep cleaning was understood as almost synonymous with sanitizing. Especially when it came to our homes, a thorough clean was enough for our peace of mind. Offices and commercial spaces were the ones that required a complete professional chemical sanitization but that too only at peak disease seasons. Needless to say, the outbreak of this pandemic changed the definition of sanitization for everyone. Right now, attaining peace of mind is a thing of the past, and worrying over whether our spaces are clean enough is one constant.
Sanitizing the laundry? Both words in the same sentence are baffling to many of us. Doesn’t washing clothes achieve the same result, so why do we need sanitizing? When someone in our home gets sick, the first thing to do after they get well is disinfecting the living space. Cleaning off the doorknobs, floors and washing the bedsheets and blankets. All of this is done to ensure the bacteria and germs are no longer contaminating your home. But does a regular wash cycle get rid of these microscopic germs? Is washing equivalent to sanitization?
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