Consumer Reports offers tips on how to make your clothes soft and nice-smelling from your washing machine (without the gross ...

Fabric softeners are designed to reduce the amount of static in synthetic fibers and make laundry come out feeling soft and smelling great. These products contain lubricating ingredients that help ...

Fabric softeners — liquid added to the final rinse in the washing machine or softening sheets that go with the clothes into the dryer — are designed to reduce the amount of static in synthetic fibers.

Learn how fabric softener actually works, and when you should—and shouldn't—use it. Getty Images / Vladdeep Fabric softener, also called fabric conditioner, is a laundry product containing lubricating ...

If you're accustomed to adding fabric softener to every load, you might view it as a laundry essential. But the truth is, you don't have to use fabric softener to get clean-smelling, super-soft ...