THE CLEAN JOURNAL
Clear answers for thoughtful daily care.
We share practical laundry guidance, household cleaning methods, personal-care notes and our thinking on everyday sustainability.
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How Much Laundry Powder Should You Use?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} LAUNDRY POWDER is not the more clean it is. Excessive usage may increase the burden of drifting, and may be too small to cope with heavier stains. A more...
Clothes Still Smell After Washing?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Clothes continue to smell different after they are washed, often not only because “the laundry product is not fragrance”. Wet stops, stains in washing...
How to Wash Yellowed White Clothes
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Read in English Read the original Chinese article
How to Wash Sportswear and Reduce Persistent Odour
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Sweats of sweatsuits often come from continuous contact between sweat, leather and fabric fibres. In order to keep the suit clean, the key is not to use...
How Often Should You Wash Sheets and Duvet Covers?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The sheets are not covered by a fixed cycle applicable to all households. Seasons, sweat levels, sleeping with pets, skin contact frequency and indoor...
Can You Wash Dark and Light Clothes Together?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Whether dark and light clothing can be washed together cannot be seen only as “swipe several times”. The dyed weight of the fabric, the washing...
Why Hard Water Can Make Laundry Look Grey
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Some families will find their clothes washed for long periods of time with a hardened hand, a gray colour, or LAUNDRY POWDER less likely to produce the...
How to Wash Baby Clothes Safely
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Infants and young children are exposed to clothing and skin, with a focus on timely treatment of stains, selection of products suited to clothing and...
How Often Should You Clean Your Washing Machine?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The washing machine is in a damp environment for a long period of time, and the doors are sealed, detergent boxes, filters and drainage locations tend to...
How to Reduce Single-Use Plastic in Household Cleaning
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Reduction of single-use plastics in household cleaning does not require a single replacement of all supplies. A more sustainable approach would be to...
Laundry Sheets, Powder or Soap: Five Questions to Help You Choose
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} In the face of laundry sheets, LAUNDRY POWDER and laundry soap, the really useful question is not “which is better”, but: what is this washing, where is...
How to Use Multipurpose Cleaning Paste
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Multifunctional cleaning paste is suitable for local oil pollution, water sedimentation and daily stains on some hard surfaces, but "multifunctional" is...
Where Not to Use Cleaning Paste
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The suitability of clean products depends not only on the stains but also on surface materials and protective layers. cleaning paste usually needs to...
How to Build a Low-Waste Cleaning Cabinet
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} A lighter cleaning cabinet is not filled with new products labelled as “environmentally friendly”, but rather reduces duplication, avoids impulsive...
How to Use Shampoo Paste
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} shampoo paste is in condensed ointment form with a different sense of use than liquid shampoo. When first used, the most common problem was...
Rose or Chamomile Shampoo Paste: How to Choose
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} In the face of roses and pyres, shampoo paste, many will ask, “What suits me better”. Rather than using a flower name to correspond directly to a certain...
Why Towels Turn Stiff or Smelly and How to Wash Them
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The towels are exposed to moisture, leather and horny daily and are often in poorly ventilated bathrooms, making it easier to smell and grow stiff than...
How to Pre-Treat Collars, Cuffs and Local Stains with Laundry Soap
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The advantage of laundry soap is not to replace all washing methods, but to use them precisely on small-scale stains such as collars, sleeves, sock...
Coconut-Oil Laundry Soap vs Regular Laundry Soap
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The term “coconut oil laundry soap” usually refers to the source of soap-based fatty acid in the formulations associated with coconut oil, but by this...
How to Use Plant Essential-Oil Laundry Powder
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} LAUNDRY POWDER is not the more they put in, the cleaner they are. What really affects the outcome is the matching of the size, type of stain, water...
Laundry Powder Residue? Seven Things to Check
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} The white mark on dark clothing and the powder feeling in the stitches are commonly referred to as “LAUNDRY POWDER Residues”. It may come from the...
Laundry Sheets Not Cleaning Well? Six Things to Check
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} When laundry sheets is not clean, do not add another piece mechanically. The washing results are determined by a combination of stains, fabrics, loads...
Seven Practical Steps for More Sustainable Laundry
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Sustainable laundry is not declared complete when a product is purchased. One laundry involves clothing, cleaning products, water, electricity...
Unscented, Fragrance-Free and Odourless: What Is the Difference?
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Not exactly the same thing. The term "no perfume" usually describes the formulation as not having voluntarily added to it for the purpose of fragrance...
Laundry Sheets vs Liquid Detergent vs Powder: How to Choose
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} laundry sheets, liquid detergent and LaUNDRY POWDER are not the absolute winners of the scene. If you value portability and quantification, laundry...
How to Use Laundry Sheets: Machines, Hand Washing and Travel
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} First answer: If the product packaging does not have a special description, laundry sheets should normally be placed directly in an empty washing-machine...
No Cleansing, No Audience with the Gods: Ritual Purity in Ancient China
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} Did you take a shower? Three thousand years ago, it was not just a question of your health, but a matter of whether you could enter the door — and this...
How Ancient Chinese Incense Practices Shaped Sacred Spaces
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} In the previous section, we have seen that cleaning is an individual ticket: the ancient Egyptian priests cannot enter the temple without being cleansed...
Cleaning the Mind While Sweeping: The Philosophy of Cleanliness in Ancient China
.breadcrumb{display:none!important} How long has it been since you cleaned the floor? Not to cope with housework, but to treat the sweep as a “reform”: Sweeping and seeing the dust in your...
Our Laundry Sheets and Shampoo Paste at UNCCD COP17
Twiggy Laundry Sheets and Twiggy Herbal Shampoo Paste were selected as UNCCD COP17 conference gifts, connecting daily care with a wider conversation about land and nature.