How often we wash our bed sheets is a contentious topic for many, and so the experts at luxury bed linen retailer Secret Linen Store have launched a new ‘Clean Sheets’ Calculator to help put the debate to rest.
The generally accepted advice, wherever you live in the world, is to wash your bed linen once a week, but that is often at odds with what actually happens in people’s homes; a report from Hammonds revealed that a third of Brits only wash their sheets once a year, whilst the average time between bed sheet changes for Americans is 24 days.
According to Google search data, nearly 53,000 online searches are made every year around how often bed sheets should be washed, and the number sees an annual peak every January. With people looking to start good lifestyle habits at the start of the new year, it seems that lots of us have the best intentions to change our bedding as often as is recommended but need to enforce it with a New Year’s resolution in order to make sure we keep up with the weekly recommendation.
