an investigation of domestic laundry in europe - habits ... - SIFO
an investigation of domestic laundry in europe - habits ... - SIFO an investigation of domestic laundry in europe - habits ... - SIFO
8An investigation into the domestic laundry habits in EuropeLiterature .......................................................................................................113Appendix A Survey of domestic laundry habits in europe,the questionnaire....................................................................117Appendix B Declaration detergents.............................................................123Appendix C Settings of the 15°C Wascator washing programmefor the hygiene tests ...............................................................127Appendix D Settings of the 30°C Wascator washing programme ..............129
SummaryA number of findings from the three different main studies (survey, laundryperformance and hygienic quality) are grouped into four categories. Thesecategories have been chosen such that they are related to hygiene and cleaningperformance.The categories are:• Laundering practices• Attitudes• Detergents used• Temperature used and the frequency of doing laundry in the households.Links between these findings that may be of interest in the scope of this researchare pinpointed and discussed.First, some overall remarks can be made. For instance, almost all the householdsdealt with in this study have a washing machine and use this as theirmain washing method. Further, the answers from the survey show that doinglaundry still seems to be a “female thing”- especially in Greece. However, wewill not go further into any analysis of this question.Spain is the country, which definitely shows the most different patterns in thisinvestigation. This pertains to both performance and hygiene, as well as tolaundry habits.A test method for establishing the hygiene quality of washing laundry underreal life conditions has been developed. The method has proven repeatabilityand validity. Further fine-tuning is still needed for the selection of laundrysamples and the sampling itself.
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