Cleaning your jeans
Ask any jeans-wearer and they’ll tell you: There’s no better way to ruin the shape and color of your favorite denim than washing them after every wear.
In a 2016 study published in the International Journal of Consumer Studies, frequently-washed jeans lost 4 percent of their total fibers over the course of the research—twice that of a less-frequently-washed pair—but didn’t have a significantly lower bacterial load.
If you’re eager to make your jeans a little less gross, try freezing them instead to kill that lingering bacteria. (Yes, seriously!)
