Today we’re in the laundry room. It’s amazing how fast those empty fabric softener bottles pile up. How can we eliminate that plastic consumption? Here are some ideas, with the highest-impact life changes first:

  • If you are lucky enough to have naturally soft water, try going without fabric softener — it’s not absolutely necessary.
  • Make your own fabric softener from baking soda, water, and vinegar (careful, it will be bubbly when you’re mixing it up!). Store it in a glass bottle or in an old plastic fabric softener bottle.
  • Switch to natural fabric softener sold in a glass bottle.
  • If you must dry your laundry in a dryer rather than hanging it to dry, you can switch to dryer sheets to eliminate plastic.

Happy washing!

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