Laundry and Ironing

When you’ve diligently separated your laundry, there’s nothing worse than watching your entire load slowly change colour in front of your eyes. Unless you’ve accidentally missed a red sock tucked in a pocket, the cause is usually due to colour running from one or more of the items being washed.  Sometimes a colour running isn’t […]

Hand washing clothes is an exercise that many of us witnessed our grandparents doing as children. Some of us might’ve even tried to help out!  It always looked so simple and therapeutic when Nanna washed the clothes in the sink, and Grandad stuck the items out on the line to dry.  They really were the

Wool is a natural fibre that comes from the hair of sheep, goats and other animals such as alpacas. It is one of the oldest fabrics in the world, and it has many unique properties that make it a popular choice for clothing, bedding, and other textiles. While it’s a great fabric, it can be

As you might know already, it’s messy work taking care of a baby!  Babies love to feed their clothes, vomit their dinner back over their trousers, and they like nothing more than to leave you an explosive gift three to five times a day! This typically results in multiple outfit changes throughout the day.  In

Doing laundry in summer is a more pleasant experience than doing it in winter, for the simple fact that you can dry your clothes outdoors.  You economise on the costs of using a tumble dryer, you avoid the humidity that comes from drying clothes indoors, and nothing beats the fresh smell of clothes that have

As the name suggests, lambswool is quite literally the wool from lambs. A premium fibre, lambswool is soft and fine and feels wonderful next to the skin.  While sheep’s wool has a reputation for being itchy, lambswool is entirely different. Less likely to irritate the skin, lambswool is highly sought-after to make natural fibre clothing. 

A spin dryer might be one of the most underrated appliances for a UK household. This compact but incredibly useful machine can greatly speed up the process of drying your load of laundry, but it takes up only a fraction of the space that a tumble dryer would! This kind of machine is ideal for

Delicates either go walkabout in the washing machine, or they end up twisted around other clothes and you can’t get them free. Either way it’s really annoying, and it’s a tedious task to untangle the garments! So, how do you keep delicates safe when they’re being washed? Simple: you use a laundry bag! Laundry bags

There are a whole host of products designed to tackle even the toughest stains, with fantastic results.  But you don’t always need to resort to harsh chemicals. Natural products like lemon juice can be very effective in tackling stains on laundry.  Like all stain removers, lemon juice works better on some stains than others, and

Mother Nature has a powerful cupboard of cleaning and laundry products, and lemon juice is renowned as an effective stain remover. But while this is true, lemon juice itself can sometimes cause staining itself.  If you google lemon juice and stains, you’ll probably find a whole heap of articles telling you how to use it