Wool Tumble Dryer Balls

HOW TO USE YOUR SCOOMS WOOL DRYER BALLS

• We recommend using 4 natural wool tumble dryer balls for every drying load.
• Just add them to your tumble dryer with your wet washing.
• Great for keeping your scooms bed linen, towels, pillows and duvets fluffy and airy when you dry them!
• Wool dryer balls need space to work best so they will be most efficient in medium to small-sized washing loads.
• After use, leave your dryer balls in your dryer ready for the next load!

HOW WOOL DRYER BALLS WORK

You may have noticed that wet laundry tends to clump together in the tumble dryer. This slows down the drying process and increases the drying time. Tumble dryer wool balls separate laundry in the dryer so that hot air can circulate more evenly and efficiently.

Adding 4 dryer balls to your tumble dryer load will separate your laundry creating air gaps. This will allow more air to circulate around your laundry helping the dryer to heat your laundry more quickly and suck the evaporated water out of the dryer more efficiently.

Tumble dryer balls agitate against the fibres in your bed linen and clothing so your washing will also feel softer coming out of the dryer.

SAVING ENERGY & MONEY!

For our wool dryer balls UK tests, we used small, medium and large washing loads, and found that drying times were reduced by 11% to 27%. We achieved the most reduced drying times with medium to small-sized loads.

Unfortunately as we all aware, the cost of electricity is going up. The average price cap will rise from £0.28 per kWh to £0.52 per kWh from (1 October - 31 December 2022).

Over a year, a household that regularly uses a tumble dryer can save approximately £164 of electricity, also reducing your carbon footprint by 89kg.

Not bad for 4 wool balls! And when you have finished with your tumble drying balls, they will make great nesting material for the birds!

We calculated this based on:

• Typical tumble dryer using 2.50 kWh per hour.
• Average drying time of 1.8 hours.
• Cost per KWh of 52p.
• 5 uses per week of a tumble dryer.
• 0.283 kg of CO2 per kWh of electricity (https://bulb.co.uk/carbon-tracker/)

SCENTED WOOL DRYER BALLS

Dryer sheets are typically saturated with chemicals and perfumes, but if you want to add your favourite smell like lavender to your drying laundry you can add a couple of drops of essential oil to your wool dryer balls.

• AFTER your laundry has dried, add wool dryer balls that have been 'soaked' for 20 minutes with 2 to 6 drops of essential oil. Run the load again on a non-heat setting for 10-20 minutes.
• WARNING, only use essential oil 'soaked' wool dryer balls on a non heated tumble dry setting. Heating essential oils to a high temperature in a tumble dryer is a fire risk.
• We suggest you keep one set of wool dryer balls without essential oils and one set with essential oils.

WOOL v  PLASTIC DRYER BALLS

We prefer wool dryer balls for our laundry drying:

• Using wool balls for the tumble dryer will definitely be much quieter than using plastic dryer balls or tennis balls!
• Plastic dryer balls are not as environmentally friendly and can shed micro plastics.
• Wool dryer balls are more durable than plastic balls.

CAN I USE TENNIS BALLS INSTEAD OF WOOL TUMBLE DRYER BALLS?

On a technical level tennis balls work to an extent as they create the air gaps in your laundry which aids drying. However they don't have the softening effects that natural wool has. Tennis balls can also contain plastics and other chemicals which can leach into your laundry or form micro plastics.