Laundering Women's Lingerie and Stockings

It is important to launder women's lingerie and stockings very carefully because health hygiene is essential to avoid potential problems.

Womens stockings are notoriously bad for incubating bacterium if care is not taken with personal washing and careful laundering of lingerie and stockings.

Laundering women's lingerie need be no more than following a few careful guidelines. The first of which is simply to wear clean underwear each and every day.

Common sense and common hygiene practices indicate that this should be a 'no brainer' but in todays world where hygiene is taken for granted, it is important to realise that some things are needed to keep this as close to a reality as possible.

If you don't believe me, next time you are in a public toilet, take note how many people wash their hands before leaving the area?

Once you start noticing these unclean habits you become very cautious about where you put your own hands on the door as you leave!

That's why, these days, it's a good idea to have some sanitize wipes handy on your person just so you can wipe your hands before putting anything in your mouth or your hands near your face.

Or if you are a woman, it's probably a clean habit to get into if you wash your hands before going to the 'loo and then again as you leave.

After all, you have touched that same door on your way in as those grubs have touched on their way out.

And if it is a hot day and you are wearing stockings and sweating, as you often do during an Australian summer, you need to take more care than during the winter months.

To wash women's nylon stockings to kill germs is easy. All you need to do is hand wash them or put them into a special stockings laundry bag that you can get at any supermarket these days.

This stocking laundry bag is a good idea whether you hand wash or not but hand washing is strongly recommended.

Don't jam the stockings into this bag too tightly because the water has to be able to flow through and around the stockings. Hand washing is by far the best in warm soapy water.

Only ever use a very mild laundry detergent, because if you don't get the detergent rinsed well enough from your stockings you can end up with a skin irritation or an itch in an area that you can't scratch in public.

After several rinses in the final rinse water put a few drops of lavender oil into the water and leave the stockings soaking in there for a few minutes.

Then carefully remove the bag and squeeze the excess water out of the stockings while still in the laundry bag and this way you won't stretch the stockings out of shape.

Hang the laundry bag to dry on the clothesline in the sunshine, or over a shower rail if you don't have an inside clothes air-er.

Sunshine is best for killing off germs. Never put women's nylon stockings into a clothes dryer because the heat will destroy the spandex.

For washing women's lingerie in a washing machine, always use the gentle cycle and a gentle rinse.

Only use a mild soap detergent too because it's unlikely the lingerie will actually be soiled but it does need washing after every wear for hygiene health.

If you don't have or use a fabric softener, a tablespoon of vinegar in the final rinse water will soften the lingerie and act as a mild antiseptic that won't cause any irritation problems.

Fine lingerie nightwear needs to be hung on a clothes hanger in a shaded area to dry. Women's bras can be draped over the clothes hanger but panties need to be dried in sunshine if possible.

As soon as they are dry, bring them inside again because too much sunshine will fade them and weaken the fine fabric.

But using sunshine to kill any stubborn bacteria is a near-guaranteed way of successfully maintaining some wonderfully sensual garments for many more uses in the future.

By : Jenny_Wong