Everything that matters about how to wash a mattress protector comes down to one fact the product never tells you:

The most useful thing anyone can tell you about how to wash bedding is that the pile on your floor

Of everything on your bed, the duvet cover is the easiest thing to wash and the most likely to ruin

The answer to how to wash a duvet starts with a number neither you nor the care label controls: 5.0

Wash jeans inside out, zipped and buttoned, in cold water on the gentle or delicate cycle, with a mild detergent

Hand wash silk in cool water with a gentle, enzyme-free detergent, keep the soak under thirty minutes, rinse until the

Hand wash knitted cashmere in cool or lukewarm water with a wool or cashmere detergent, soak it briefly, rinse at

Dry-brush the whole shoe before any water touches it. Then treat a sneaker as four separate jobs: the upper, the

Scrape off the blob, turn the garment inside out and flush warm water through the back of the mark for

Scrape the blob off with a spoon, then blot and rinse with cool water — Maytag says toothpaste stains “can

Pick off the solid, then hold the fabric under warm running water and rub it against itself. The gel is

Scrape off what you can, work liquid dish soap into the mark dry, leave it a few minutes, then rub