We believe an object can elevate both beholder and maker. In a world of mass-produced goods, we offer artisan-made home and apparel crafted in fair-trade environments from around the globe. We strive to live fully, slow down to enjoy life’s little luxuries, and choose everyday to create a world connecting maker, owner and earth.
Canadian families are washing an estimated 2 loads of laundry a week per person.
A family of 4 is then looking at somewhere between 7-8 loads of laundry for the same time frame, for an average of 364 – 416 loads a year!
By converting to this low waste alternative, alpaca dryer balls eradicate the need for the following items:
Alpaca dryer balls are a chemical-free alternative to your every day toxic dryer sheet.
When you think about those single-use sheets, realize the astronomical amount you’d have to buy to keep up: between 364 – 416 a year!
Depending on the brand, the going rate is between 5 – 15 cents per sheet.
Your laundry is thereforecosting you anywhere from $18.20 - $62.40 annually in dryer sheetsalone.
Alpaca Dryer Balls are naturally antimicrobial, and a superior softener to wool.
That means you can ditch your fabric softener all together!
If you head to your nearest grocery store, you’ll find the average bottle of fabric softener costs anywhere from $6-22, depending on the brand. And the bottles claim to last between 50-120 loads of laundry.
*While there is data to prove that the typical family uses much more than the recommended dosage of liquid softeners in each laundry cycle, we’ll keep things easy and use the above numbers to run our math.
Liquid softener thus costs an average of 10 - 25 cents per load, depending on the brand.
By ditching the antiquated liquid softener,you are now saving between $36.40 to $104 a year!
Alpaca dryer balls are made from natural alpaca fibres and felted directly to the middle. This extensive felting process allows the balls to absorb more moisture and increase air circulation, resulting in your laundry drying faster!
Thus, by reducing dryer time and requiring less wattage and electricity,alpaca dryer balls promote low waste living by wasting less energy.
And the specific amount of energy you save is adirect translation to money saved on your next hydro bill!
As it turns out, investing in alpaca dryer balls means purchasing fabric softener becomes obsolete. As is the need to purchase a wasteful amount of single-use toxic dryer sheets.
This chemical-free alternative is a proven money AND planet saver, allowing you to keep a potential $166 in your pocket every year!
And that’s not including what you’ll save in hydro fees.
By packaging several waste-saving benefits into an all-in-one household item, alpaca dryer balls are the perfect low waste living item you need in your laundry room!
Make the switch today to a low waste living action plan and invest in your own set of Alpaca Dryer Balls! Help the planet by becoming an environmental saver, not waster. :)
