Could you do laundry without a washing machine? Yet our grandmothers have dozens and dozens of stories about it. From lye to river water, laundry was a demanding ritual but deeply respectful of nature. A lesson that is still valid today.
The washing machine is an appliance that we would no longer be able to do without today : it is found in every home and we use it with assiduous frequency. But have you ever thought about how we cleaned our laundry before they were invented and then introduced to the market?
To answer this question, we can turn to the stories of our grandmothers who tell us about when hard work and patience were the secret ingredients for having clean, fragrant clothes .
Stories that evoke expert hands scrubbing with care, the unmistakable smell of homemade soap and the soothing sound of water flowing in a nearby stream.
The natural methods that our grandmothers used were not just a way to clean clothes, but a real ritual that combined respect for nature with popular wisdom, passed down from generation to generation. And who knows, maybe we can still draw inspiration from these today .
In a totally different world, now that attention to sustainability and a « cleaner » and waste-free world is at its highest level, these stories could no longer be just stories belonging to a distant world but a real vademecum for reducing our footprint on the planet .
So let’s see what our grandmothers used to have perfect laundry, without needing a washing machine .
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