Chapter 3. Washers, Dryers, and Other Laundry Room Equipment
PAGE 40. Soap and Detergent Association. Consumer Update: Laundry Products and High-Efficiency Washers. 1997.
PAGE 43. www.energystar.gov/ index.cfm?c=clotheswash.pr_clothes_was hers
Chapter 4. Laundering
PAGE 65. Maytag Encyclopedia of Home Laundry. Western Publishing, 1969, pp. 86, 145, 153. The manual for my old top-loading Maytag washer cautioned: “Although some sources suggest turning down the hot water heater, 140°F at the faucet [emphasis added] is necessary for cleaning soiled items.” (Maytag Laundering Guide, Form No. 60FE-0390, Part No. 2-05914, undated, p. 2).
Chapter 10. Sanitizing the Laundry
PAGE 149. Eduard Smulders. Laundry Detergents. Wiley-VCH, 2002, p. 81.
PAGE 149. There is now a line of hydrogen peroxide products called H2Orange2, marketed as an industrial sanitizing cleaner, which has a far longer shelf life than drugstore hydrogen peroxide and, according to its manufacturer, works in cold or warm water. (Some H2Orange2 cleaners are EPA registered sanitizers.) It is citrus scented and comes in concentrated form that you dilute. A representative of H2Orange2’s manufacturer, EnvirOx, told me that “H2Orange2 Grout-Safe” can be used in the laundry as a bleach and that the product is environmentally and otherwise safe. (Terry Freeman, EnvirOx LLC, personal communication, August 26, 2004.) At the time of this writing, H2Orange2 Grout-Safe and information about it are still hard for people at home to get, and I am not able to offer comparisons between it and other products as to effectiveness in sanitizing or bleaching.
PAGE 151. See R. Sporik et al. New England Journal of Medicine. August 23, 1990, pp. 502-507, quoted in “Housedust mites may cause childhood asthma,” Child Health Alert, October 1990.
Chapter 12. Science for the Laundry
PAGE 177. Philip Dickey, Washington Toxics Coalition, personal communication, August 18, 2004; “Criteria for Good Environmental Choice: Laundry Detergents, Stain Removers, and Bleaches,” Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, 2002.
PAGE 177. Apart from its use in the laundry, chlorine bleach is important as a general household disinfectant for which nonpolluting and equally effective substitutes are not easy to find, especially when the other substantial advantages of chlorine bleach are weighed in the balance. Many scientists, for example, favor chlorine bleach as a home disinfectant because its mode of action precludes any possibility of its breeding disinfectant-resistant microbes (an alleged possibility on which the jury is still out with respect to certain other disinfectants). One promising candidate as a replacement for household chlorine bleach is called H2Orange2 Grout-Safe. See note 2 in Chapter 10.
Chapter 15. Beds and Bedding
PAGE 213. D. P. Strachan and I. M. Carey, “Home Environment and Severe Asthma in Adolescence: A Population-Based Case-Control Study,” British Medical Journal, 311 (1995):1053-1056.
PAGE 213. Kathryn V. Blake, “Asthma Management,” American Druggist, July 1998, p. 57.
Chapter 19. The Fabric of Your Home
PAGE 277. Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 320; Bernard P. Corbman, Textiles: Fiber to Fabric. McGraw-Hill, 1982, p. 78.
Chapter 2O. Transformations
PAGE 310. Germany and the Netherlands have banned the import of certain dyed goods whose colors might, if subjected to reduction treatments, produce carcinogenic dye degradation products.
PAGE 311. Frosting tends to plague some permanent-press clothes made of cotton/polyester blends. In such clothes, the cotton fibers tend to be a bit darker than the polyester ones, and, when weakened by the resin treatment that creates the resistance to wrinkling, the cotton fibers also tend to wear away faster than the polyester. In areas subject to abrasion, such as the knees, a lighter area may appear.
PAGE 317. “Facts about Fabric Flammability,”North Central Extension Service Publication 174, revised July 2003. www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/ NCR174.pdf
PAGE 318. “Facts about Fabric Flammability,” North Central Extension Service Publication 174, revised July 2003. www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/ NCR174.pdf
PAGE 321. Sara J. Kadolph and Anna L. Langford. Textiles, 9th edition. Prentice-Hall, 2002, pp. 299-300, Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 416.
PAGE 324. Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 417.
Chapter 21. The Natural Fibers
PAGE 334. Fergusons Irish Linens, manufacturer of linens and damasks, recommends hot water, a “color care” detergent free from optical brightening agents, and no bleach on sturdy washable linens. The following maximum wash-water temperatures are suggested (I have converted from centigrade to Fahrenheit): (1) White linen without special finishes, 200°F. (2) Linen without special finishes, where colors are fast, 140°F. (For 1 and 2, a temperature of 122°F is generally sufficient.) (3) Linens that are colorfast at 104°F but not at 140°F should be washed at 104°F (Test first for fastness at different temperatures.) (4) Fine hand-embroidered linen should be hand-washed at 104°F.
PAGE 342. Fashion Institute of Technology professor Ingrid Johnson, quoted by Morris Dye in a Scripps-Howard news service story, November 11, 2003.
PAGE 344. Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 147.
PAGE 347. Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 417.
Chapter 22. The Man-Made Fibers and Blends
PAGE 356. Kathryn L. Hatch. Textile Science. West, 1993, p. 483.
PAGE 358. Bernard P. Corbman. Textiles: Fiber to Fabric. McGraw-Hill, 1982, p. 347.
PAGE 362. Federal Register. February 1, 2002, vol. 67, pp. 4901-4903 (designating a new generic fiber name and describing PLA).
PAGE 367. The natural fibers other than silk, the only natural filament fiber, are measured by their diameters, stated in micrometers. Sheep’s wool ranges from 17 to 40 micrometers (17 being fine and 40 coarse), cotton from 16 to 21 micrometers. Flax is slightly finer than cotton, from about 15 to 20 micrometers. Only filament fibers are measured in deniers, and what counts as a filament fiber is determined by its length, which is indefinitely long. See Kathryn L. Hatch, Textile Science, pp. 90-91.
PAGE 368. Joyce A. Smith. Ohio State Extension Factsheet (ohioline.osu.edu/hygfact/5000/5546.html).