NOTHING beats the feeling of slipping into a bed with fresh sheets – but what about the duvet beneath it?
With a bedsheet covering it, you would be forgiven for thinking your duvet isn’t exposed to dirt or dust.
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So it’s perhaps no surprise that cleaning fans have been left divided over how often you should be washing your duvet.
A mum sparked the fierce debate on social media after asking: “How often does everyone wash their duvets?”
Some people appear to be meticulous about it as one said: “I wash my duvet every week.”
Another echoed: “In the washing machine once a week.”
While a third added: “Fortnightly. Dead skin cells, you sweat at night. Yuck.”
Others wait slightly longer, using the change in season as their guide to get the duvet in the washing machine.
“I have a summer and winter duvet, they both get washed in changeover once a year each”, said one person.
A second agreed: “I wash them all when I change over so when winter ones go away I wash them ready for summer ones and vice versa. I just shove them in the washing machine on a wool wash.”
And a third wrote: “I wash mine once a year. Luckily the summer one fits in my 8kg washing machine. The thicker one goes to the laundrette, cost me 12 quid plus £3 to tumble dry on their massive Mac shine.
“They smell lush and I had them for 18 years. Bought good quality and still going strong.”
But many admitted their duvet has never seen the inside of a washing machine.
“Good heavens, sometimes I don’t know how I am still alive with all this mega hygiene”, fumed one.
“I never wash mine, there is only me sleep under it and obviously have a cover that gets washed. oh and a top sheet.”
A second chimed in: “Same, you can be too clean! Then you get every germ going.”
A third echoed: “I’m so glad you said that. I’ve never washed my down duvet, obviously wash the covers though.”
Meanwhile, a fourth wrote: “Never washed it lol.”
Some took it a step further, revealing that they buy a new duvet every time they feel like they need one.
One said: “I don’t wash mine, i just replace after the seasons finished. Pillows renew every 12 weeks.”
While a second wrote: “I never wash mine. Always get rid and buy a new one”
But they faced immediate backlash as another cleaning fan insisted: “A practical but not very sustainable solution.”
Elsewhere, a doctor has revealed how often you should be washing your bedding – and it’s bad news if you hate laundry.
The hassle of stripping everything off then washing and drying it all might mean you wait a little too long to change your bed sheets.
But according to Doctor Jason Singh, anything less than once a week is pretty gross.
And everyone’s saying the same thing after a mum revealed how often she washes her bra.
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