softening jeans....

[randomlinh]

hrmmm.. any ideas?

 

[Yeeny]

I would wash them several times, and use fabric softener. That has always worked for me.

 

[pdo]

put some salt in there dude.

 

[randomlinh]

salt.. ?

I fabric softner don't do anything much.

 

[Crysla]

I was sitting in the back of a truck one time in college with a few friends. We'd all piled in headed to a party. Well....there was a bottle of anti-freeze sitting next to me and apparantly it did not have the lid on very tight, cuz we went sailing over a railroad track and the anti-freeze flew at me and opened and spilled all over my jeans. Glowing green stuff was everywhere. Well, of course the guy took me home so I could change my jeans. The next day when I washed them, they came outta the dryer butter-soft....and never got that stiff feeling ever again. I do not know how advisable this is......but it worked for me....LOL

Princess

 

[rahvin]

HOLD ON,

Crysla's suggestion may work but ethelyene glycol is NOT something we want in our water supply, it is toxic to most living things. Adding some to a load of wash may make jeans soft, but it could also have the potential to cause serious harm to your local wastewater treatment plant, not to mention everything it could kill if it made it into an aquifer. Let me repeat, ethelyene glycol (anti-freeze) is toxic if ingested and has no place in our water supply system! You wanna take care of all the neighborhood pets and wildlife, leave a bowl of antifreeze sitting outsdie and the local pets will start dropping left and right (Ethelyene glycol is very sweet and has a very pleasant flavor).

 

[cxim]

an old drier & rocks does a good job

do not need the heat part... just the tumbling

put in jeans & several cups of clean pea gravel, takes abbout 3 to 4 hrs of tumbling

it has to be an old drier because the rocks will screw up the insides & chip off the paint so wet stuff will get rust stained

other than that, it is the best method to soften up stiff jean material

if you have one of the old front load washers, they work OK too.

 

[Suki]

Someone mentioned it to me before that a tennis ball in the dryer will work.

 

[randomlinh]

school dryer == old to me hehe.. j/k..

tennis ball eh? problem w/ that is that it will make my jeans smell like tennis balls. ya well.

Someone explain the salt thing to me tho.. were you jokin' or...?