If you want to spiff up your laundry the natural way and ditch harsh chemicals, these five chemical-free laundry tricks are for you. Your towels will be softer, your white clothes whiter—and you won’t have to pick up that bottle of bleach. Instead, use dryer balls (wool balls are a popular option), but the old-fashioned tennis ball trick works, too. Simply add a few tennis balls to the dryer when drying towels and linens, and they will fluff up the clothes and circulate the air inside the dryer, without adding chemicals. Plus, it speeds up drying time. If you can’t fold the whole load right away, target items that show wrinkles the most. In a laundry basket, those would be jeans, dress shirts, and bed linens. Pull them out, give them a shake to loosen any wrinkles, and set them on top of the load of t-shirts and socks so they don’t end up scrunched in a ball at the bottom of the basket. You’ll enjoy nice, crisp pillowcase and sheet edges, no ironing necessary!
