Here are the answers to all of your laundry questions during right now, including how to wash your cloth face mask.
All products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission., and you disinfect your food purchases. But what to do about the clothes that you wore on the trip?, an infectious disease physician, researcher, and instructor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to help answer this question.
It’s a phrase that’s been so drilled into our minds as a basic hygiene ritual that we might have difficulty believing in its ability to keep us healthy amidst the Coronavirus pandemic—especially when it concerns doing our laundry. But, as Muthulingam explains, “If somebody coughs and there are little particles that get on your clothes, it’s less likely that the clothes are going to go on your face. Whatlikely is that your hands will touch your jeans and then your face.
To remove those particles in your clothing and/or masks, a regular wash will do the trick. Per Muthulingam, the virus is not so hardy as to survive a spin in the washing machine and there’s no need to separate potentially contaminated garments and masks with, say, your pajamas. “The thrashing from a washing machine with hot water and regular detergent should be fine,” she continues, adding that the heat from a spin in the dryer will also help kill the virus.
Okay, so you’ve properly removed your mask, and your washed hands are going absolutely nowhere near your face. You need to launder your clothes, but you have no in-unit washing machine and you’d rather not risk a trip to the laundromat. Now what? For this, we call upon Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Boyd. As co-founders of a brand dedicated to all things laundry, the two share best practices for hand-washing launderable fabrics and garments, below.Staying on top of the laundry—by washing every day or every other day—is the easiest way to keep the loads manageable. A small load of laundry can be effectively washed in a clean sink, a washbasin, or a large bucket. For larger loads, the bathtub is your best option.
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