eli5 Why do hotels all over the world, and so many people at their home use white bed sheets? Aren’t they the easiest to stain and a laundry nightmare?
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Because you can wash them on >60°C safely and bleach if needed. This is for cotton sheets obviously, you should follow the label insurrections for all laundry anyway. Historical most sheets were cotton and white one is the easiest to care for, and this was especially important in high-use situations like hospitals, hotels etc.
Why would they be a laundry nightmare? White stuff is the easiest to clean, you can bleach it and it does not show that it’s old. Removing a stain in 100 times easier on something white than something colored.
Colored stuff requires more care, and if you wash it everyday it will take just a few months before it looks old. Different batches would also discolor differently depending on how old they are, so you would have different shades in the same room, or between sheets and pillowcase. A white sheet is good until it has literally holes in it.
i think that’s the exact reason; that way ppl can call for room service when they see stains
It’s easy to stain, but it is also easy to un-stain, because you can use straight-up just Clorox bleach on it without it ruining the dye and turn the sheets off colors. What’s it gonna turn? Brighter white?
It’s really easy to clean. Just bleach it and wash in hot water. It’s very sanitary that way.
Another thing to consider is that the majority of threads are white as their base colour, dyeing them adds cost to bulk fabric.
They’re cheaper because they’re not dyed and they don’t fade. If you have colored bedsheets and they fade this gives a bad look for a hotel even if the sheets are fine. White also give an impression of cleanliness. They’re not that much concerned with stains because ultimately they have so many that if one of them ends up with stains that don’t get removed by their heavy duty washers they just throw them away.
White sheets are also the easiest to bleach to remove stains and they don’t fade like colored sheet would.
People covered easy to clean, I’m going with easy to match and replace. So my dogs dig my bedspread and blankets. Like literally dig their nails right in. So my sheets last way longer than the bedspread. But with white sheets, everything matches regardless. You like three pillows each but the sheets only came with two? No problem, buy some more white pillowcases, they will always be the right shade. Top sheet fine but fitted sheet has a hole? No problem, the fitted sheet from your spare set will match perfectly.
Bedbugs (and other crawlies) are easy to spot on white bedding, which may be another traditional reason white is preferred…
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