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Can you confidently tell me you understand fabric softener? I mean obviously it's intended to make fabric… softer. But, for most of us, it's either one of many confusing items we walk past in the ...

Fabric softener is notoriously divisive. In fact, when we interviewed Rich Handel, a test project leader at Consumer Reports who specializes in laundry, about the things he would never do as a laundry ...