Dryer Balls
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Product Reviews of Dryer Balls
Product Review: Noisy but do the job great
Summary: 5 Stars
These drier balls do a great job of shortening the dryer time. If the dryer isn't packed you hear the balls popping around in the dryer.. If you dryer is in the basement or a closet or something it's no big deal... The noise is worth the shorter drying time. The clothes come out nice and soft. If the tips of the balls get dark your dryer is on too long. On my dryer I moved the dial back two lines and the clothes come out dry and I saved myself at least half an hour. I would recommend these little guys...Product Review: Not environmentally friendly, think before you buy
Summary: 1 Stars
Consider these things before you buy this PVC product:
* Hydrochloric acid, cancer-causing dioxins, and other persistent pollutants are spewed into the air, water, and land when PVC is being manufactured, resulting in chronic and severe health problems such as cancer, neurological damage, endometriosis, birth defects, and liver and kidney damage.
* hard to recycle and not the kind of substance you want ina landfill where the toxins will slowly leach into the environment.
* made in China
Product Review: Please do not buy these
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased Dryer Balls with the best of intentions: to stop using fabric softeners on my clothes in order to reduce the chemicals in my laundry. Sadly, after less than a half dozen uses, I opened the dryer (a load of sheets and towels) to find one of the balls SPLIT IN HALF. Obviously these are not a sound product. When I went online and started reading more about them, I learned the the chemicals used to make Dryer Balls' plastic is terribly toxic. I guess it's back to dryer sheets for now...Product Review: Seller sends out a different product!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
The Mystic Wonders dryer ball has a lifetime guarantee and is YELLOW as you see in the picture. This seller (Gamma Discount) has sent me the "As Seen on TV" blue dryer ball which you find at Bed Bath & Beyond and which I already owned. This cheaper version of dryer ball started cracking and breaking after a few months of use.
Mystic Wonders sells their quality dryer balls for $20. I was wondering how another vendor could sell it for so much cheaper than the manufacturer and now I know -- THEY DON'T -- they are lying about what they sell!! I am pissed because now I have to return 3 sets of these and they don't pay return shipping!! From other seller feedbacks I can see I'm not the only one and I am in the process of reporting it to Amazon...
UPDATE 5/19/10: By the way, we have found that these washing machine balls can really put clothes through a pounding with front loader washer. I notice it more with baby clothes, and also colors tend to bleed more with the ball pounding the clothes. We are getting a super energy- and water-efficient LG steam washer, but that is an expensive route to go!
Product Review: Tennis balls would work. . .
Summary: 3 Stars
I have often heard that using tennis balls in the dryer for a comforter will keep it from forming clumps in the stuffing. It will balance it, and fluff it up wonderfully.
My grandson was selling stuff for a school fund raiser;the dryer balls are one of the items I decided to try, based on the tennis ball idea (there weren't any tennis balls in the catalog!). The description said they were made of rubber--it is either very hard rubber, or plastic as some reviews have stated,with which I'm inclined to agree. (didn't say on the package.)
These are noisy, but they do seem to help clothing to dry faster, as they open up spaces throughout. I have not noticed any softening qualities distributed by these however, which was one of the things I bought them for. My husband wonders if usage will eventually shorten the life of fabrics by the beating they receive, because the balls are so hard.
Given the idea (again) I might just try some tennis balls. They'll wear out quickly, I imagine, but they probably cost less overall. I like the idea of the wool balls mentioned in another review--I suppose anything that keeps the laundry from clinging and clumping as it dries is going to work nicely. Just depends on what product one feels comfortable with, I guess.