Over the course of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidance on everything from how to minimize your risk of contracting COVID-19 at the grocery store to ...

Washing clothes and other laundry should make it all smell great, right? Not always. Sometimes, freshly washed laundry still smells sour — something that we absolutely won't stand for, and you don't ...

Between surprise spills, shedding season and never-ending laundry cycles, keeping a home running smoothly can feel like a ...

Our laundry habits might be doing even more harm to the environment than we realized. More than 700,000 microscopic fibers are released into the water every time we do a load of laundry, and many of ...

Key Points Sort sheets, pre-treat stains, and wash on the right temp and gentle cycle.Dry on low heat or line-dry; wash every 1–2 weeks (more often if needed).Skip bleach and softeners; treat stains ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

If you've ever pulled a load of laundry out of the washer and noticed a certain funk to the supposedly clean clothes, we get it. It happens to the best of us. Sometimes, clothes smell, even after ...

So long, dingy whites and faded darks! Here's how to separate laundry so your clothes come out of the wash clean and bright. Mary Gagliardi, a laundry scientist at Clorox, agrees that even though ...

Too cheap to send my laundry out, too pressed for time to sit in a commercial laundromat, I lamented my lame attempts to do hand laundry on the road in the Sept. 1 On the Spot column (“Dirty Little ...