A little maintenance goes a long way toward fresher laundry. Even if you have your laundry routine down to a science, you might not even know that your washing machine has a lint trap—much less that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washing machine maintenance is an essential part of keeping your appliance running as it should. Washers that aren’t cleaned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quick question: Is your washing machine starting to smell worse than the sweaty leggings you throw in there? If the answer is yes, ...

The rubber gasket needs some cleaning love, too.

It can be easy to overlook cleaning the things we use to clean other things, but major appliances like washing machines and dryers do need to be cleaned and properly maintained to optimize performance ...

The smart home is taking over the world. Basically, all TVs still on the market are smart TVs, for example, and more and more, as time passes, any gadget or appliance that could potentially benefit ...

Have you ever opened your washing machine only to be met with a foul, funky stench? Did you shrug and ignore it? Me too. But it got worse, didn’t it? Until eventually, your newly washed clothes ...

Nobody really looks at their washing machine and thinks it could be making life less clean. You throw clothes in, press a few buttons, walk away and expect fresh laundry at the end. Simple. But if you ...

Dr. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, CNN & Playboy. The ...