Melissa Pateras

When we were washing clothes by hand, we used a bar of soap and we scrubbed it because it needed heat.

It needed three different kinds of energy, which is like heat.

And you needed to actually scrub it.

And the soap was the chemical.

You needed all these things.

But now we don't need that.

So people are still under the impression that you need to use hot water to get your clothes clean.

And that just isn't the case because, you know, most detergent is formulated to work in cold water.

And people don't want to believe that.

They don't believe that cold water can get your clothes clean.

And that's just not the case.

So you can do all of your laundry in cold.

I do my whites in hot because oxygenated bleach only works in hot water.

But otherwise, everything I do is in cold because a lot of people don't realize as much as they're trying to get their clothes clean, that hot and warm water are the leading cause of fading.

So as soon as you wash your clothes in hot or warm water, they're faded.

And people don't know that.

No, it's just sort of an old school mentality when we go back to our grandparents.

But I get it because what they had to clean the clothes wasn't great.

It didn't do all the things that our detergent does today.

So to compensate for that, they used the boiling water.