Lysol Laundry Sanitizer

[launderess]

@askolover

"are you a Nurse too?"

No, luv. Did about a year of training then switched majors at college. T'was a different world then, all whites, caps, pillow-plumbing and bed making. The idea of spending one's life at it just didn't seem ideal at the time, especially for the money they were paying. Fast forward to now many of my classmates who stuck with it are earning very good money $90k or more per, so that's me for you.

 

[launderess]

Starch cycle on front loaders

My AEG OKO-Lavamat has a "rinse/starch" cycle, as does the old Miele. However think many other vintage and even modern front loaders still offer this function. Though one assumes starching isn't done that often and the thing is used more to rinse things more thoroughly. That, and or "rinse and spin" for items wanting damp for ironing or just need freshening.

IIRC Speed Queen front loaders have (or had) a separate "rinse and spin" function, but they do not recommend starching in washer.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Our 1965 WH FL with the side swing door had the word "Starch" in the 3rd rinse on the regular cycle.

 

[dustin92]

Would it not continue sanitizing after the water has been drained and spun out, being that the clothes are already saturated with the product? Couldn't one just add it to the fabric softener dispenser and let it complete the cycle as normal, then wait 15 minutes or so before drying the load? Or in the case of a front loader, just set it for no final spin, wait 15 minutes​ and then reset it to a drain/spin cycle?

 

[tomturbomatic]

I know that chlorine bleach will continue to bleach until it is completely diluted or flushed from the fabrics in the deep rinse(s). I think maybe with the Lysol disinfectant, which is a less powerful product, that the amount of disinfectant in the fabrics would be greater if they were saturated rather than having most of it extracted. The rinse and hold option on some front loaders would probably work, because it would hold the clothes in the water until hell froze over. The no final spin option would probably be just as effective. That's very good thinking.

 

I have some very concentrated commercial quat that I think is diluted at less than an ounce to the gallon. I have taken clothes out of the washer after the final spin, put them in a plastic container and poured a half gallon or gallon of the solution over them and let them sit for the required period then spun them again. You don't need more than enough of the stuff to saturate the fabrics; it's just that most people would not go to the trouble of doing what I did and Lysol wants to sell a lot of the product.

 

[launderess]

Won't work I'm afraid.

One of my favourite scenes from the television show M*A*S*H was head OR nurse, Major Margaret Houlihan instructing a GI (who clearly was not interested in the job) in how to mop the OR floors.

"Solider, the mop goes *IN* the bucket......

In order for these laundry disinfectants to work properly things must be immersed in the solution. Think about another quat based disinfectant, that jar of green liquid on every barber's or hairdresser's table; Barbicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbicide

Combs, brushes and so froth must be immersed in a properly made up solution for a minimum period of time to be considered "sanitized" or "disinfected".

All disinfectants and or sanitizers have what is know as contact time parameters. Unless something is labeled (and test verified) to kill germs "on contact", everything else will give an amount of time things must be immersed and or solution left on contact with surface.

If you drain away the solution using any of these laundry disinfectants there isn't enough residue action to continue killing germs.

In a washing machine the constant motion of agitation be it tumbling, a central beater or whatever keeps washing bathed and or immersed in disinfecting solution.

With a front loader if you stop the machine unless all items are submerged in water, the things above water line will simply see water pool away. With that water goes the disinfecting solution.

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