{"id":1070,"date":"2012-09-20T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:03","slug":"wool-dryer-balls-can-replace-chemical-laden-dryer-sheets-and-reduce-drying-time-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/09\/wool-dryer-balls-can-replace-chemical-laden-dryer-sheets-and-reduce-drying-time-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Wool dryer balls can replace chemical laden dryer-sheets and reduce drying time by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dryer balls can reduce drying time by 30 per cent. (Credit: Jennnifer LeBrun)<\/p><\/div>\n

At my house we prefer to hand dry most of our clothing, but we do still throw some things in the dryer – socks, underwear and towels for the most part. And currently we do use dryer-sheets for these loads, mainly to get rid of static cling. For those that don’t know, these dryer-sheets are loaded with many synthetic cancer causing and hormone disrupting chemicals (read:\u00a0Toxic Chemicals in Your Dryer Sheets and Fabric Softener<\/a>), and of course these chemicals end up embedded in your clothing, and\u00a0ultimately\u00a0are absorbed by you. This is not good. Not to mention the\u00a0wastefulness\u00a0of single use throw away dryer-sheet.<\/p>\n

Well I am going to test out an alternative that I have read about several times in the past (but for whatever reason haven’t tried yet), wool dryer balls<\/strong>. Not only are they designed to take care of the static cling and reduce wrinkles, they also can reduce drying time on most loads by as much as 50%! That is a lot of energy savings. Your dryer is an energy HOG and as an appliance is one of the top energy consumers in your house. Oh, and they are\u00a0reusable ;-)<\/p>\n

So I am buying some today and will update this post with details after we have used them for a while.<\/p>\n

You can read more about dryer balls here (read:\u00a0Wool dryer balls shrink drying time<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I am buying my “100% Canadian Merino Wool Dryer Balls, handmade in Vancouver, BC” from www.ULAT.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At my house we prefer to hand dry most of our clothing, but we do still throw some things in the dryer – socks, underwear and towels for the most part. And currently we do use dryer-sheets for these loads, mainly to get rid of static cling. For those that don’t know, these dryer-sheets are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,381],"tags":[423,426,300,425,424,422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}