@Hostafan1. I've seen instructions on duvet covers and the like - wash before use. Who does that? Who apart from me reads instructions about what to do with a duvet cover.😐
perhaps some part of the process may leave some residue to which some folk are allergic?
Very true. I never used to bother washing new socks or tights for my then young daughter, until one day she was caught in a downpour whilst on a school trip, aged 7, wearing new tights. She complained to the teacher that her legs were burning and when I got her home and peeled the wet tights off, her legs looked like they’d been burnt - bright, uniformly red exactly where the tights has been wetted. Turns out many manufacturers (these were bog standard M&S) use chemicals during the manufacturing process, that can leach out if not washed out before use.
The last new sheet I bought was packaged plastic-free (good!), just folded around a piece of corrugated cardboard with a printed thin cardboard band around it, so the sheet itself could have been touched who-knows-how-many times before I bought it. It went in the wash with whatever else was in the basket, dried on the line, nice and fresh before being used.
To me it's more about the starch and other things they put on clothes and sheets etc to make them look nice and crisp in the shop. Usually feels a bit unpleasant on the skin so I wash them first.
I always rinse off things that won't be peeled, but I'm mostly thinking about dust that might be on the surface. If I were truly worried about surface germs I'd use a special food cleaning spray. Sometimes if an apple feels particularly waxy I will actually wash it with soap but that's rare.
I have occasionally washed citrus fruit with soap, hot water and a nailbrush when I wanted the zest and couldn't get any unwaxed ones. The wax is probably harmless but I didn't fancy eating it.
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I never used to bother washing new socks or tights for my then young daughter, until one day she was caught in a downpour whilst on a school trip, aged 7, wearing new tights. She complained to the teacher that her legs were burning and when I got her home and peeled the wet tights off, her legs looked like they’d been burnt - bright, uniformly red exactly where the tights has been wetted.
Turns out many manufacturers (these were bog standard M&S) use chemicals during the manufacturing process, that can leach out if not washed out before use.
I always rinse off things that won't be peeled, but I'm mostly thinking about dust that might be on the surface. If I were truly worried about surface germs I'd use a special food cleaning spray. Sometimes if an apple feels particularly waxy I will actually wash it with soap but that's rare.