Four reasons to explain why socks become hard

As we known, socks are close-fitting clothing, most of socks made in cotton, nylon some soft yarn. These yarns could stretch easily when produced form machine, and it’s a bit fluffy since the distance between yarns are far away before wearing and washing.  Then let me talk about reasons when you know the reason of socks could be fluffy.

4 reasons

1. Feet sweating:

Feet are relatively more human sweating place, so socks will often suffer from sweat wet, and the sweat of inorganic salt will absorb water, which aggravates the adhesion of socks, so that the fine fibers on the socks can not be completely stretched, so the socks will become wet and hard.

2. The number of washing times:

socks after repeated cleaning, fiber under the action of external force, will lose the original shape, usually maintain softness, fluffy fiber fracture, fall off the situation.

3. Hard water to wash socks:

our daily use of tap water belongs to hard water, which contains a lot of minerals, such as magnesium ions, calcium ions, with hard water, that is, cold water to wash socks, will make these minerals into the fiber of socks, over time, socks will become hard, no longer soft and fluffy.

4. Detergent residue:

traditional washing liquid, washing powder contain chemicals, such as fluorescent whitening agent, hydrolase, phosphorus, etc., these chemicals will remain in the fiber, if cleaning is not clean, it will cause socks to harden.

Service life of socks

The life of a pair of socks is usually about 3 months, and it is recommended not to wear socks longer than 3 months, even if they are not broken. Because socks and clothes are different, in daily wear, socks will rub with shoes, will become thinner and thinner, and will slowly harden after many washing, the air permeability is very different from the new bought back.