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How often you should be washing these everyday items

Your days of the sniff test are officially over

How often you should be washing these everyday items
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Jasmeen Siddiqui
12/05/2025 11:30 ‧ 1 week ago | StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE

Hygiene

Everyone seems to have their own opinions on cleanliness, which is arguably acceptable when it comes to things like personal hygiene, but at some point we have to face facts: most of our hygiene habits are lazy.

Laziness can be a good thing, of course, but not when it's been scientifically proven that bacteria and fungi are growing on everyday items we touch and use and expose our loved ones too. Plus, if the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that a little more washing goes a long way.

Click through to see (and perhaps be surprised at) how often you really should be washing everyday items and surfaces.

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