A movement that invites you to wash jeans once a year is becoming more and more popular: here is the motivation.
Constantly washing clothes is the best way to always have clean and perfectly sanitized clothes available. Wearing spotless and fragrant clothes also allows you not to make a bad impression with friends, family, partners and work colleagues. Today, washing machines and dryers are also on the market that allow you to sanitize and dry clothes with truly excellent results. However, these appliances also consume a lot and undoubtedly have an impact in environmental terms. Precisely for this reason, in recent times many are changing their minds about the opportunity to wash clothes with this frequency.
Washing jeans once a year: here’s why
In fact, the ‘no wash’ movement has recently taken hold, where members clearly have positions against washing clothes. To be clearer, the ‘no wash’ movement argues that it is not necessary to wash clothes as often as we are used to.
The battle of the ‘no wash’ is above all aimed at respecting the environment, given that washing machines – as mentioned – certainly represent a consumption. Just think of the amount of water needed for washing, but also of the microplastics of synthetic garments that are dispersed in the environment.
What are the materials that can be washed more rarely? According to members of the ‘no wash’ movement, merino wool garments are among those that can avoid being washed often.
Indeed, the Wool&Co brand claims that its merino wool clothes can be sanitized once every 100 days without any problem. The same goes for the cotton of jeans, another material that would not need too frequent washing at all.
Among the supporters of this theory there are also some well-known personalities. Among them is Stella McCartney, a British designer who confessed that she doesn’t change every day and is not a fan of washing machines and the like.
The other members of the ‘no wash’ movement claim to hang the clothes without washing them, removing the bad smell from the armpits with a few sprays of vinegar and vodka.
Not washing clothes paves the way for viruses and bacteria
Clearly this stance arouses a lot of controversy and there are many who believe this approach is completely wrong. The newspaper Il Messaggero interviewed Professor Carlo Signorelli, professor of Hygiene at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, to talk about this trend.
The luminary soundly rejected the practice carried out by the ‘no wash’, pointing out that by doing so viruses and bacteria have the road cleared and can settle in large quantities on clothing.
The teacher’s advice is therefore not to listen to the ‘no wash’ and to sanitize all clothes very often, especially those that come into contact with the skin.
Clearly, something can always be done to reduce the environmental impact. An example is the regulation of the washing temperature, which can be kept low, but also the use of natural and organic detergents that do not represent damage to the environment. Smart washing machines, therefore, without indulging in questionable practices.
