We all know the drill. You toss your stained shirts and underwear into the washing machine, pour in a capful of bright blue ...

Rinse — no repeats. There may be a new invention that could significantly reduce the time spent doing laundry. Scientists in ...

A newly developed spray-on fabric coating could allow clothes to be cleaned using only water, reducing water and detergent ...

Detergents may begin their journey by cleaning our clothes, but they end up contaminating the environment, flowing into ...

A person adds or removes clothes from a front-loading laundry machine. Washing clothes (shown) consumes a lot of water, ...

Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a fabric coating that would give new meaning to the phrase "stain-resistant" -- a coating that would take an active role in sloughing off ...

Even if soy sauce, ketchup, or engine oil gets on a white shirt, rinsing with water alone makes it clean. That is because the fabric has a self-cleaning coating that blocks stains. With shorter wash ...

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a solution to reduce the amount of microplastic fibres shed when washing synthetic fabrics. In a world swamped by fast fashion – an ...

Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a fabric coating that would give new meaning to the phrase "stain-resistant" — a coating that would take an active role in sloughing off ...