Ever wondered how to wash your activewear for optimal results? A laundry expert breaks it down.
When it comes to washing your workout clothes, you probably throw your sweaty sports bras and leggings into your washing machine along with the rest of your laundry without a second thought. We’re willing to bet you’re not making an „activewear stew“ in your bathtub, like TikTok creator Brigitte Hunnicutt.
In Hunnicutt’s video, she can be seen soaking her activewear in her bathtub filled with water and pouring scoops of powdered detergent in. In the comments, she shares her „recipe“: She uses four scoops of Rockin‘ Green Laundry Detergent ($26, Amazon) and soaks her workout clothes in warm water for hours. Then, she does a normal wash cycle in the washing machine without detergent.
Naturally, we were curious about Hunnicutt’s „activewear stew“, as she calls it, so we turned to Patric Richardson, host of „The Laundry Guy“ on Discovery+ and author of „House Love“ and „Laundry Love“, to find out more about this method — and if that’s actually how you’re supposed to wash your workout clothes.
Patric Richardson is the host of „The Laundry Guy“ on Discovery+ and author of „House Love“ and „Laundry Love.“
What Hunnicutt is doing is called laundry stripping, Richardson explains. Laundry stripping is a deep cleaning method that involves letting your clothes soak for hours in order to remove residue caused by your natural body oils, among other things.
