All appliances in the US use water in a way to make them nearly useless. This is true for showers, dishwashers, and especially washers.
The rinse cycle on your machine likely drains the existing water, partially wets the relatively still wet clothes, and then tries to squeeze out the water. The result is clothes still covered in detergent.
Why is this bad? Because properly clean fibers (including not having detergent on them) are less brittle and therefore stronger and less prone to wear. Rinsing your clothes properly will make them last longer and make you not smell like soap.
Don't let your appliances stinge you on water.
Also the second rinse is more than twice as effective because the first rinse was mostly useless. Now that the prior water was properly squeezed out in the end of the normal run, you will have a better ratio of old water to new water. You ideally would like to fully squeeze out the water before attempting any rinse but your machine likely doesn't do that during it's normal run because that would use energy and it's probably an energy star machine.
When all is said and done you went from a .25 rinse to a 1.25 rinse.
All appliances in the US use water in a way to make them nearly useless. This is true for showers, dishwashers, and especially washers.
The rinse cycle on your machine likely drains the existing water, partially wets the relatively still wet clothes, and then tries to squeeze out the water. The result is clothes still covered in detergent.
Why is this bad? Because properly clean fibers (including not having detergent on them) are less brittle and therefore stronger and less prone to wear. Rinsing your clothes properly will make them last longer and make you not smell like soap.
Don't let your appliances stinge you on water.
Also the second rinse is more than twice as effective because the first rinse was mostly useless. Now that the prior water was properly squeezed out in the end of the normal run, you will have a better ratio of old water to new water. You ideally would like to fully squeeze out the water before attempting any rinse but your machine likely doesn't do that during it's normal run because that would use energy and it's probably an energy star machine.
When all is said and done you went from a .25 rinse to a 1.25 rinse.
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