While every week or two will generally suffice for sheets, towels are best washed every few days. A microbiologist explains.
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By washing our clothes, we release microfibres into the environment which are then ingested by marine animals.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
With hand-washing top of mind, soap is an integral part of keeping clean. But people through the ages relied on earlier forms of soap more for cleaning objects than for personal hygiene.
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