How to use foil balls when washing

A rational housewife knows that some useful household goods from the store have "home" counterparts. Perhaps the only difference between such assistants is the price. A striking example is balls for washing. You can buy them at the household department or make them yourself from a sheet of foil, and spend the money saved on something more important. Well, at least for a chocolate bar.

Foil balls - why put in a washing machine

Life hack appeared on the Internet and is actively used by women who are used to housekeeping based on folk methods.Using foil balls they solve several problems:

• struggle with coarsening of fleecy and terry materials (we are talking about a problem that occurs after washing);
• increase the effectiveness of washing powder and conditioner (things are better washed);
• remove static electricity;
• save chemistry.

Some effects are explicable and indeed observed.Moreover, having learned about life hack, large manufacturers of household appliances began to produce ready-made balls for washing.

True, they are made not of metal, but of plastic and materials similar to it in properties. The product helps to make coarse cloth softer due to “beating”, and also contribute to better removal of contaminants - that is, it solves the same problems as foil balls.

Other effects - such as eliminating static electricity - while supported by a semblance of a scientific foundation, are still questioned by skeptics. Believe it or not - the choice is yours. Many recommend checking in person, but there are experts who insist that using foil balls during washing can harm both the machine and things.

They reinforce their hypothesis by the fact that during the active rotation of the drum, the smallest particles come off the manually formed ball. Then part of them, together with water, gets inside the washing machine and accumulates there, and the other rubs and damages the fibers of the clothes.

How to use foil balls when washing

To minimize possible harm - if it is done at all, which is in question - can be at the expense of more tight folding of the foil and the subsequent placement of the already formed ball in gauze or fine-meshed the grid.Someone prefers to use a handkerchief, but its material is too dense.

After several washings, the ball will compact well, but this does not mean that you can get it out of the net and start using it without it. The risk of peeling foil pieces will continue.

You can make balls as follows:

• take a roll of food foil or a large number of “golden” chocolate wrappers;
• crumple a small piece of foil in the palm of your hand;
• wrap the spools with another sheet, squeeze tightly on all sides (try to maintain the round shape of the workpiece);
• repeat actions until the ball grows approximately to the size of a ping-pong ball;
• compact the expanding ball by rolling around the table.

You need to stop shortly before the lump of foil in size becomes slightly smaller than a tennis ball. After that, pack the ball in a grid or gauze and start using it for its intended purpose.

Put the foil ball directly into the drum of the machine. After washing it is dried on a hard surface.

Estimated shelf life of such an au pair: 4-12 months. But experienced users recommend changing the device to a new one at least once every six months.