Scores of clothing racks combed, snaking your legs in and out of dozens of pairs in order to find your indigo intimate: the pair that simultaneously clasps your waist, skims your hips, and smooths your thighs. Now duty calls to extend the life of these long sought loved ones as long as possible.
Luckily, preventative care is easier and cheaper then one might anticipate. And the secret is embedded below:
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Thanks so much for this tutorial!
I have been destroying my expensive denim for much too long, thanks so much!
Unfortunately, freezing denim will NOT kill the bacteria in it. I’m a biologist – we store live bacteria long-term in ordinary freezers in labs all the time. Freezing bacteria causes it to go dormant while frozen, but it’ll “wake up” as soon as it’s thawed.
Food handling would be so much easier if freezing killed bacteria. As we’ve seen in a lot of high-profile food recalls, bacteria like E. coli can survive being frozen in foods like ground beef and cause illness unless they’re fully cooked after freezing.
Nat,
This is good to know. Would hot water and soap kill bacteria then? Would freezing be as effective as washing? What is the best way to kill bacteria?
Glad to have an expert’s opinion.
R
Soap plus hot water will kill the vast majority of bacteria because soap destroys the cellular membrane that surrounds bacteria. A normal clothes-washing cycle isn’t going to kill everything, though, because some bacteria are too deep into the fabric to kill. Freezing will kill far fewer bacteria than normal washing will.
However, killing bacteria isn’t really the main goal of washing, because when you put your just-washed jeans on again, bacteria from your skin will recolonize the fabric very quickly. The problem isn’t the bacteria, but what they’re feeding on: The sweat, oils, etc. that transfer from your skin into the fabric. When bacteria feed on these, they produce waste chemicals that we recognize as the unpleasant odor of unwashed clothes. The main function of washing clothes is to remove those substances so that the bacteria have less to feed on. (Of course, freezing does very little to remove oil or sweat from fabric.)
Happy to help. =)