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In my journey toward making a more natural home, over two years ago I ditched using dryer sheets and started using wool dryer balls instead.
You see, regular dryer sheets contain chemicals and potential toxins. Sure, they may make your clothes smell pretty, but I can accomplish that with essential oils.
Wool dryer balls are 100% natural. They speed up drying time, soften clothes naturally and leave no toxic residue on your clothes, linens or cloth diapers.
(Speaking of cloth diapers, you canNOT use dryer sheets while drying diapers! You will ruin them!)
When Mighty Nest offered to let me review their dryer balls from the Willow Store, I jumped at the chance. You see, the dryer balls I had been using were…OK…but they were not anywhere near the quality of the wool dryer balls from Mighty Nest.
As you can see in the picture below, the Willow Store dryer balls are bigger, and, to me, the quality of the wool just feels stronger.
Willow Store’s wool dryer balls (ball on left) are made from natural wool that has been hand felted. The no-name ball on the right looks like it may be knitted wool covering another fabric.
Besides helping to detox your laundry room, I personally believe that using wool dryer balls can help save you money. I have not had to buy dryer sheets in well over two years, and I will probably never buy them again. And using wool dryer balls can help cut the drying time almost in half for some loads of laundry!
To use, simply toss 2-3 balls in your wet dryer and start. There is no need to ever remove the balls from your dryer.
Want to WIN a set of 3 wool dryer balls, compliments of Mighty Nest?
*This post and giveaway were generously sponsored by Mighty Nest.
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When I do use my dryer, it would be great to have these wool balls. My mom uses tennis balls, but they are really noisy!!!!
I love them!
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Do you find that the balls create static. I made a few from 100% sheeps wool and found that I got static….
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I am also curious to know about static. I need something that will eliminate static and it seems that the wool wouldn’t do that, but I have no experience with them so really have no idea.
We haven’t used anything in the dryer for several years, and in the last couple years I noticed our static problem had decreased greatly. I could not figure it out for the longest time, but I think maybe I’ve found the reason…. We have switched to cotton as much as possible (cotton clothing, underwear, blankets, etc.) I think the synthetic fabrics must generate more static? I don’t know why, but we just don’t have much trouble any more, except for a few sweaters of polyester, acrylic, etc. I don’t know if that will help anybody, but I thought I’d share my weird observation.
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That’s really interesting! You know, I wonder if that’s how it is with our clothes as well. I do notice the things that get static are usually fleece or something like that. To be honest, I think the best person to ask may be someone new to using the wool balls. I’ve been using them so long that it’s hard to compare to what my static was like before.
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I do still have some static but very little. I had to do laundry to answer your question-Ha! To be honest, it’s so little that I don’t really notice it. I did pull out on fleece shirt tonight that had static on it, but that was the only shirt in the entire LARGE load of toddler clothes. I used 6ish balls in the dryer tonight, but you really only need 2-3. I honestly can’t remember how much static cling I had while I was still using dryer sheets, but I went through a period where I used nothing in the dryer (before I heard of the balls), and I did have problems with static then. I would say you will still have some but not much…at least that’s been my experience, and I’ve been using the balls for about 2 1/2 years now.
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I love my dryer balls!
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I have never heard of this before. If it cuts down the dryer time, it would save me a lot of electricity! I want to try these!!
Wool dryer balls sound wonderful. With a family of 4 all having skin sensitivity issues, these sound great. I have not heard of them before, and have tried tennis balls, but would LOVE to try the wool balls in my dryer.
Since we raise sheep, I am a big advocate for sheep/wool products. With 7 children I just don’t have the time to take on another project, especially working with wool. This would be cool to add to my laundry room and use! I have kids with skin disorders, so right now I don’t use anything in the dryer, this would be awesome
I’m taking baby steps towards a more natural lifestyle. These dryer balls would be a great step in that direction! Thanks for posting this giveaway
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We are trying to be more aware of what we use and this would be great. Love your blog.
I want to thank you for sharing a non-toxic approach to the dryer! I have extremely severe Toxic Injury (also called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), and dryer sheets actually give me nausea and heart symptoms. Other people’s use of dryer sheets affects me in these ways: in public (the chemicals coming off their clothes can affect me from 15 or more feet away–I know, hard to believe), with workers such as a plumber coming into our home, in rental homes we might move to, and in second-hand clothes we might buy. There are thousands of people like me, (actually probably way more than that). So, the fewer people in the world that use dryer sheets, the better. (I hope your post goes viral!
) Also, the chemicals in dryer sheets really are bad. When people switch, they might be helping their own families not get Toxic Injury somewhere down the line.
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Amen on the toxins in dryer sheets. Folks think they need to use them but that’s a bunch of balony. Hang ‘em outdoors. I have never used dryer sheets and all my kids have managed to survive despite it. LOL No laughing matter, sounds horrible what you go through. if you were around me there’s be no perfume, etc. or dryer sheet chemicals. Nature is best.
Thank you; it is pretty horrible what I go through. But, I like to take every opportunity to laugh, and “managed to survive despite not using dryer sheets” IS funny.
People do seem to be attached to their fragrances. “They say” (and I have no idea if it is true or not) that chemicals/perfumes in stuff can be addicting….
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I love my dryer balls, especially with my cloth diapers. I did a review of a great small business that sells them:
http://www.themessyorganicmum.com/2012/10/organic-wool-dryer-balls.html
Thanks for supporting dryer balls, too few people seem to know about/use them.
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I love dryer balls. I tried other types but nothing works like wool dryer balls. I would love some
Would love these
I would love to give these a try. Thanks so much for the information, and the giveaway!
Would love to win the dryer balls for when I use it. Use the greenhouse in inclimate weather a lot or reg. clothesline outside or drying rack by the woodstove.
I would love to try these!”
I would love to try dryer balls!!! I’m quitting my job at the end of the month to go back to homemaking and these sound amazing!
These look fabulous! I have never tried dryer balls yet, but they are just what I’ve been looking for! I stopped using bounce sheets and my family is complaining! I don’t want to give in and buy more……now that I know more about them, they just seem gross! Thanks so much for sharing, and perhaps I’ll win the free ones to give them a go!
Dryer sheets ARE gross!
But, before I got MCS, I used to brush dryer sheets over my hair to get rid of static. It worked, but YUCK. Somehow there’s got to be a spiritual lesson in there…. 
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LOL! I think I did the exact same thing!
LOL I’m glad I’m not the only one to do that!
I just remember hating how my hair would “stick” to my sweaters, PJs, etc….
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Same here–I wonder why my hair doesn’t do that now?! LOL
Can’t wait to try some with essential oils!
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i need some! wish i could enter, but i’m in Canada.
I would so love to win these 3 balls of wool dryers! I’ve never heard of them before today. Currently I am not using anything in the dryer, ever since I read how harmful the average commercial dryer sheets are for our health and the environment (approximately 8 months ago). So , I’m really excited to learn about how wool can help the environment and even cut down on drying time.