Hoomins! You spend days and weeks breaking in a dog bed and getting your scent all over it, and then what do they do? Not only do they wash your perfect dog smell out, they wash some foofy, flowery fabric softener smell in! This stinks! (via Murray C.)
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It’s okay, pupper, I don’t like fabric softener smell, either.
The older I get the more sensitive I get to perfume, I now use only unscented soap, detergent, fabric softener sheets and shampoo.
I generally don’t like the scent of laundry stuff. I go for unscented whenever possible (unscented powder detergent is hard to find anymore). (The very thought of those scent-booster crystals you toss in the dryer make me cringe.) Right now I’m using a lavender-scented laundry soap (because I do like lavender); it’s a very light scent, though, and doesn’t stay on the clothes. I have a box of unscented from the same brand in the closet. I usually use wool dryer balls instead of softener sheets (but I do still have a mostly-full box of them, which are also unscented). (And the balls came in a bag with a cute sheep on it!)
I have mild eczema, which I don’t think is triggered by any laundry or skin product I use (lately it’s just been hanging out on my left ear), but I generally look for unscented products like lotions and soaps just because I don’t like strong scents (especially when it’s something that I will potentially smell on my skin for hours). Those are usually the sensitive-skin formulations so I figure that can’t hurt, either.
And can you imagine how intensely repulsive soap smells are to animals?
Exactly!! I’m on the NO scent for pets side! And for myself as well actually.
My eczema is mostly triggered by stress, by cold weather and dry air, and by excessive ingestion of dairy products. I happen to love milk and cheese (yogurt doesn’t cause the problem and sometimes helps solve it), but my skin always tells me if I need to lay off the moojuice a while.
My first bout was several years ago, on my left leg. Started as a quarter-sized spot and spread to cover most of my shin (that was ugly), plus a couple spots on my right ankle. A few days before it started I was at an outdoor concert (Barenaked Ladies with Violent Femmes and Colin Hay), and we were sitting on a blanket on the grass. I was wearing jeans and ballet flats, no socks, and had my feet on the grass. It started raining while Colin Hay was playing, really came down during the Violent Femmes, and stopped just before BNL came out. So by the time I got home I was in wet jeans for a few hours. I have a feeling that, combined with whatever chemicals might have been used on the grass, might have triggered something. Finally went to the doctor and he gave me a steroid cream.
About a year later it started on my elbows and would come and go (eventually got more medicine for that), and more recently it’s been my left ear; went to the doc for that not long ago and got a different cream for that. But I’ve never had it as bad as that first bout on my leg.
Years ago I started using scentless versions of everything I could, and it’s wild how quickly you acclimate. At this point any scent is obnoxious.
I believe absolutely that all of the dog’s dialogue is accurately rendered in this video.
Bibi tolerates my washing her beds, which I only do about once a year. Yeah, I know, it may not be very sanitary not to wash them more often, but she’s healthy and not very smelly, and doesn’t shed a heck of a lot, and I’d rather she enjoy her bed and her smells and not give me the kind of guff Mooner is dishing out!
I don’t use fabric softener, and I usually don’t use scented detergent (for fear of allergic reactions, whether dermatological or respiratory). Weren’t we talking about this just the other day??? I don’t especially mind the warm scented air that blows from dryer vents as I’m walking past laundromats or apartment buildings (the ones that have basement laundry rooms), but I can understand those with even more sensitive systems than mine finding it burdensome. Those scents are awfully strong.
It’s obviously very tough to be Moon! What a hilarious doggie.
Like the rest of you, I prefer unscented laundry detergent and I never use fabric softener or dryer sheets. In fact, I recently discovered detergent strips, which have no scent and minimal packaging. Should order some for the nieces and nephew at college–they’re so much easier than powders or liquids or pods.
I’ve thought about trying those. I wish more of that sort of thing was available in stores. I tried solid shampoo this summer (and several brands are now all over my facebook feed) but I had to order it online. I’ve gone through 2 shampoo bars and still have about 1/3 of the conditioner bar left. (Now I’m using an unscented shampoo from Pantene that I got at Target because I didn’t want to order another bar when I didn’t have other stuff to order.) Even the laundry soap powder I’ve been using I had to order from their website because the few powder brands they still carry in store aren’t unscented.
I use an Amazon subscription for lots of stuff like that, including compostable trash bags. (Understandable if people don’t want to use Amazon–there have to be other online companies.) My local grocery store doesn’t carry **any** compostable trash bags, unless they’ve carefully hidden them.
Seriously in love with the laundry strips. No worries at all about pollution from the pods, and they come in a cardboard package that recycles.
I don’t like pods. I had a sample once so I tried it; whatever the pod itself is made of didn’t dissolve completely. That was several years ago; maybe they’re better, I dunno. I just looked on Target’s website to see if they have any laundry strips and there is one brand called ECOSNEXT…but I looked at the reviews and apparently they come in a plastic box (that’s not even recyclable?) inside a cardboard box. Kinda contradictory, isn’t it?
I found a brand of trash bags called Matter at Target. Only problem is they don’t fit in my half-circle shaped trash can (because they don’t stretch like the regular bags do). I have a smaller can that they work in, though, so I’ve been using the big can for recycling. (No idea how much of it actually gets recycled but they still pick it up.)
I do avoid Amazon but if it’s the only place I can find something I’ll get it there (usually I get my dad to order because he has Prime). Target used to have a subscription option but apparently they discontinued it last year..