How to Make Sure Your Washed Masks Dry the Next Day
My new night ritual is to hand wash a stack of day masks in the sink (a common thing we do in 2020 with a hashtag), but if I hadn’t just hung them, they wouldn’t dry out the next day – and Wear a wet face mask it is strictly forbidden if you want it to be effective remotely. Then I remembered the weird clip-on hangers that we used to dry diapers back in the days of cloth diapers . At that time, we washed a lot of laundry every day, filled with reusable plastic-lined diaper covers that could not be tumbled dry, so we took a round hanger covered with plastic clothespins that allowed us to hang everything without taking all the items. place on our shower curtain rod. At the time, I foolishly assumed that these hangers were made specifically for drying diapers, but they are actually designed to dry all kinds of tiny delicate items that you would not want to torture the wash / dry cycle – and they work exactly the same. … good for face masks as well as lingerie.
To learn more about face masks, watch the video below:
There are many of these gadgets available online ( we have this one ), but you can approximate the same effect with a few common hangers and a set of curtain clips or even folder clips (see image above). The World Health Organization recommends washing the masks once a day , and the fabric masks I bought say they can be machine washed up to 15 times. The Centers for Disease Control advises that hand washing with detergent (and preferably hot water) is enough to decontaminate your masks , and hand washing and air drying are certainly less harmful to your clothes than constantly drying them in a tumble dryer. high heat . In this case, the sink + sharp hanger option seems like a sensible alternative, especially if you don’t want to take out your salad spinner.