How to Save the Oceans and $20 +tax Every Month

Everyone does it. I mean, we all wear clothes and have to clean them. Thing is, you can do that without harsh chemicals or even essential oils. In fact, you can do away with all of those costs (both monetary and planetary) for the rest of your life. Here’s how you can save it all.

I could just jump out and say two sweet little magnets in your washing machine that don’t need replacing, but how can I convince you? Fortunately, there are only two key things to know. I mean, all laundry detergents are is a combination of dirt removal and smell insertion - and they are not the same thing.

Dirt removal is pretty simple: use that to get dirt out while using water to whisk all of that away. As for the dirt part, who cares? Nature doesn’t. It’s dirt. It’s food. It’s snot. What nature can’t necessarily handle is the dirt removal chemicals. That’s where you come in, although you might have missed one specific lesson in high school that could make you say, “Oh yeah, I remember”.

Most of us have slept through a high school science class at one point or another. For me, it was geology. Once. That said, one class I never slept through since being introduced to molecules in grade three was chemistry. I am writing this to impart something I learned then while you may have been…distracted.

Even dirt has an electromagnetic charge.

What magical process do the dirt removal chemicals go through in the washing machine? Positive and negative ions attract the dirt out of the clothes (and keep them out). That is ALL that is happening.

But those dirt removal chemicals are liquids or soluble powders, how can they be magnetic? I know and they are. Look under a microscope and you will see a magnet-like reaction taking place to get the dirt out of your dirty laundry. It does not get any simpler or much more complicated than this.

If you want to get the dirt out of your clothes, a magnetic reaction needs to occur.

But what about all the water swooshing? Clothes are made of fibers of many kinds and those are a bit sticky - kind of like velcro, but not as strong. A little swooshing is all you need to loosen the dirt, but you still need something to attract it to come fully out of your clothes and to keep it from getting back into your clothes. Water helps in too many ways to count in this process to the point where the whacky ideas of a creative five-year-old are probably correct.

Is bad smell dirt? Nope. Bad smell is bacteria, whether it’s the bacteria feeding off of the liquid sweat on your t-shirt or your armpits. Bacteria is something…additional and, yes, when the dirt goes, they want to follow their food source and the water swooshing helps them accomplish that.

But chemicals are needed to kill bacteria. If the bacteria stick around, but they won’t. You’ve taken away their food source, enabled the bacteria to follow their food, and - the biggest telltale sign of all - your clothes come out smelling like nothing.

Remember, bacteria smells bad. Bacteria does not smell like nothing; clean does.

Ok, but how do magnets put good smell into clothes? Simply put, they don’t. If all you are going to use are magnets, then after being washed, clothes will smell like clothes. Clothes smell like nothing. Kind of like water, cutlery, plates, bowls, tablets….

When you pick up a towel or shirt and smother your face in it to breathe in deeply, inhaling a nice smell, you are not smelling dirt-removal. You are smelling something totally separate from the cleaning process that is added to the clothes, be it a harsh, toxic chemical, some pricey essential oil(s), or a mix of both. Be wary of putting yourself at the mercy of companies who are not legally required to state the ingredients of things that smell nice, as is demonstrated in the movie “Stink!” (where pre-teens and their parents pry out the truth).

How can I make my clothes smell the way I want safely if I use magnets to clean them? There are oils out there that are both body-friendly and ocean-friendly. Personally, I am happy with my clothes not smelling like anything, not only because there are people with smell sensitivities out there, but because I am happy being clean and not smelling bad.

So let’s recap. No more chemical detergents ever, no more huge plastic detergent bottles ever, no more reacting to harsh chemicals left behind in your clothes ever, no more laundry detergent bills for the rest of your life! and yes, save the oceans. Check out the magnetic laundry system. (In Canada? Click here.)

Integrity Disclaimer: Neither do I nor have I ever worked for a producer or distributor of the magnetic laundry system. Also, I do not earn any commissions from any links in this article.

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