SHARING Feedback’s fascination with laundry balls – those variously shaped objects that are promoted with all sorts of sciency-sounding gibberish about how they will supersede detergent, but which may work despite their flaky reputation – Ruth Turner had a look around. What she discovered was a discussion on a blog called “bean-sprouts” in which the blogger observes that she has been told “that my beloved laundry balls might be a rip-off, no better than washing clothes in plain water” (see ).
Indeed, as Feedback has noted, “slapping your clothes against rocks in a cold stream works, apparently, if…
