Jean, underwear, sheets: how often should you wash your laundry?

Porter ses sous-vêtements deux jours d’affilée, c’est sale ou pas? Et ses draps, quand faut-il les changer? Maintenant qu’on sait s’il faut vraiment se laver tous les jours, l’heure est venue de s’intéresser à la fréquence de lavage du linge. Dessous, jeans, draps: combien de fois peut-on s’y glisser avant qu’ils ne soient sales? 20 Minutes fait le point.

His jeans

Can we carry your denim only once or more than a month without washing it?Chip Bergh, Levi's Big Boss, has its idea on the question."My jeans have never seen a washing machine," he said last summer about the pants he wore and had for over a year.

Without going so far, you can wear your jeans three or four times before making him take a bath.

Its underwear

The principle: the closer a garment is close to the body, the more often you have to change it.Especially if it sticks to intimate or conducive to perspiration areas.So it's very simple: panties, pants, boxers, underpants and other thongs are to be sent to waltz every day in the dirty linen basket, under penalty of inconvenience (of mycosis type).Ditto for tights, low, leggings and socks.

A derogation can be given to the bras, which can still be worn two days in a row, unless we have done sports or had a big stroke of hot.

His toiletry linen

Another principle, same result: the more wet it is, the more you have to change it.For followers of the toilet glove, for yourself or for your baby, you think of changing it with each use, that is at least once a day, because this little thing toe that hangs on the bathtub very quickly turns into a nestmicrobes.

For small hand towels, it is recommended to change them daily.The bath sheet can serve two to three days, but on condition of spreading it well after each shower so that it dries.

Her bed linen

The bed is still the place where you spend an average of a third of your life.It does a lot, and it requires proportionate hygiene.In addition to the pleasure of going to bed in clean and fresh sheets that smell like softening, it is important to wash your bed linen regularly, which quickly accumulates perspiration, dead skins and mites."You should not use a washing cycle that is too short and at too low temperature, otherwise the linen is not rinsed enough and the eggs of mites not killed," advises Patrick Rufin, allergist doctor.

"People tend to wash their duvet cover but by their duvet, points out the specialist.The same for the pillows, which should be washed at least once a month, "he continues.To contain the mites that swarm there, the doctor advises to "put anti -ACARIAN covers on the mattress, the duvet and the pillows", recalling in passing that these little critters "which can trigger asthma and allergies".

Who says new does not say clean

If putting on a panties that you have just bought without washing it, don't forget that other people may have tried it before you.We therefore think of washing new clothes and household linen before using them for the first time."Always wash new clothes before wearing them," insists Patrick Rufin.They are not clean and can, because of the products of which they are covered, cause contact allergies.»»