EXPERTS have revealed how often you should wash your sheets and you’re probably not cleaning them as often as you should be.
There’s nothing like fresh sheets but we can be lazy when it comes to actually getting around to washing our bed linen.
Experts at the Sleep Foundation have revealed that we should all be washing our bed sheets once a week.
The foundation also revealed that most people only actually wash their bed linen every other week.
In some cases, you should be washing your sheets even more often than once a week.
If you have asthma or allergies, for example, it can be worth washing your sheets more frequently than this to see if this improves your symptoms.
Plus, if you sleep with a pet in your bed, you ought to be cleaning your sheets every three or four days.
If you eat in your bed, go to bed without showering, or sleep naked, you should also clean your sheets more than once a week.
But why is it so important to keep your sheets clean? Well, dirt, dead skin cells, body oils and sweat build up on bed linen over time.
Most importantly, however, dust mites – including their carcasses and fecal matter – can build up in your bed.
They’re common in most homes, surviving purely off dead skin cells, and can cause irritation of the skin as well as making allergy symptoms worse.
According to recent research, 78% of people say they’re more excited to go to bed if their sheets smell fresh – so it’s definitely worthwhile to keep your sheets clean and enjoy bedtime to the fullest.
In other cleaning news, we told what happened when a woman accidentally washed her sink in hand sanitiser.
We also revealed how the professionals get toilets gleaming.
And a mum reveals the secret for getting dishwashers sparkling.
