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Wool Huuuh What is it good for...

1/9/2021

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So if you haven’t guessed by now this particular blog post is about wool more specifically the wool dryer balls I have for sale in my store.

So just in case, you didn’t already know most wool comes from these guys


  Photo by Sabrina Wishak from Burst

Cute little things aren’t they at least from a distance where you don’t have to smell them.  Sheep have been with us for a long time and at first, we didn’t even use them for their wool.  Archaeological findings tell us that they were originally kept for their meat, milks, and skins with the wool still attached I’m sure.
However, in the relative blink of an eye, just a couple thousand years or so humans did start to breed them solely for their wool.  We had discovered that wool just by itself was an incredibly useful material especially as humans began to inhabit colder and colder climates.  The uses of wool are far-reaching even in modern society some examples of wool today would include,
  • Clothing 
  • Rugs and carpets
  • Blankets
  • Baseball innards 
  • Piano dampers
  • Absorbent pad for cleaning up very bad spills
  • Wool Dryer Balls
Wool Dryer Balls  
Which of course brings us the main attraction of today’s post which is the wool dryer balls we sell at The Sustainable Life Shop.  Now if you must use a dryer to dry your clothes or you just want some softness beat back into your towels then you need some wool dryer balls.
These little wool balls help out in several ways in making sure your clothes, towels and sheets come out of the dryer better than they went in.  


Softening clothes
There is nothing quite like physical action to literally beat the stiffness out of jeans, towels, and other commonly stiff clothing items.  Unlike dryer sheets which use chemicals to soften your clothes the 100% wool fragrance-free balls do it by pummeling your clothes into submission as they go around the dryer drum.  They can do this again and again without having to be replaced, unlike those single use dryer sheets.   



Dry Faster 
Another thing that these little wonders are good for is separating your clothes out so they dry faster.  You have probably noticed that some things like to twist themselves into knots in the dryer leaving you with damp spots and some serious untangling to do.  Dryer balls can mitigate this somewhat by creating space.  Since your clothes are drying sooner you are also using less electricity/propane which is a win for your clothes the environment and for your wallet.


Biodegradable
While not necessarily a feature that helps your clothes it does soothe my conscious to know that at the end of their useful life I can just chuck them into my compost bin and add them to the garden.



What I don’t like about wool dryer balls.
There is really only one thing I don’t like about these fellas and that is they sometimes get caught up in sheets or other large bits of laundry and they come with when you empty the dryer.  This is followed quite often by them flying out at some inopportune time and try to make their escape.

While this feature is annoying to me it is beloved by the family cat who thinks chasing them down and playing with them is the best thing ever.  So at least the cat continues to find amusement in my suffering.


In conclusion    
I like them,
The cat likes them,
And they are renewable product that is 100% compostable at the end of its life what’s not to like.
If you agree head on over to the product page and check them out.

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