This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?
I don’t think I’ve ever done this either, but I have to imagine (based on having left chapstick in a hot car) that it will melt and get all over your clothes in the dryer. If it melts and solidifies on your clothes it would be hard to get out without using a very hot wash cycle and it would probably leave grease-like stains even if you did get it out.
Yeah I don’t like putting things in on very hot washes because firstly I think it’s unnecessary for the water to be that hot and it’s just a waste of power and secondly because I think it bleaches my jeans. Colours seem to stick around longer on cooler washers and then they also don’t have to fiddle around with those squares of colour protector pad things, which don’t work anyway.
Chapstick is basically a cylinder full of wax, so it melts if it gets hot. The hot dryer tumbles that cylinder around the whole load of clothes. Melted wax is hard to get out of fabric, and you’re likely going to be dealing with little spots of it over a bunch of items.
This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?
I don’t think I’ve ever done this either, but I have to imagine (based on having left chapstick in a hot car) that it will melt and get all over your clothes in the dryer. If it melts and solidifies on your clothes it would be hard to get out without using a very hot wash cycle and it would probably leave grease-like stains even if you did get it out.
Yeah I don’t like putting things in on very hot washes because firstly I think it’s unnecessary for the water to be that hot and it’s just a waste of power and secondly because I think it bleaches my jeans. Colours seem to stick around longer on cooler washers and then they also don’t have to fiddle around with those squares of colour protector pad things, which don’t work anyway.
I’ve done it a few times. Nothing ever happened to the clothes!
Chapstick is basically a cylinder full of wax, so it melts if it gets hot. The hot dryer tumbles that cylinder around the whole load of clothes. Melted wax is hard to get out of fabric, and you’re likely going to be dealing with little spots of it over a bunch of items.