How do our clothes get dirty?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Clothes are FUN. We strut our stuff in them. Laugh and play in them. Sometimes we love one article of clothing so much, we never want to take it off! But eventually, all clothes do have to be cleaned. We chatted with Tide Principal Scientist Jennifer Ahoni about how clothes get dirty, even when they still look spotless. Listen and learn about the secrets of body soils and invisible dirt!
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. |
| 0:07.2 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Rosie DuPont. |
| 0:13.5 | Um. |
| 0:15.4 | I love clothes, like truly, deeply. I've even been called a clothes horse in my day. That's a person who |
| 0:23.4 | loves fashion. And when I was little, one of my favorite articles of clothing were these |
| 0:28.1 | crushed velvet bell-bottom leggings covered in rainbow-colored roses. Rosie pants for Rosie. I never |
| 0:37.2 | wanted to take them off. Rosie for Rosie. I never wanted to take them off. |
| 0:40.5 | Rosie, didn't you wear those pants yesterday? |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, Mama. |
| 0:44.9 | And the day before? |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah? |
| 0:47.1 | You wore them on Monday, too. I remember. |
| 0:49.3 | George, be quiet. |
| 0:50.5 | I think maybe it's time to put them in the wash. |
| 0:52.6 | But I haven't spilled anything on them yet. |
| 0:53.9 | They're totally clean. |
| 0:57.8 | Ooh, boy. They were not totally clean, but I couldn't see the dirt. So how did my psychedelic |
| 1:04.4 | rose pants get dirty? Listener Harland had the same question. Hi, I'm Harland from Stillwater, Minnesota, and I'm wondering, |
| 1:16.0 | how do clothes get dirty even though you don't see it? Well, our clothes get dirty because |
| 1:26.1 | clothes are made of fibers that attract soils, and they're |
| 1:30.5 | attracting the soils from accidental stains, and they're primarily attracting the soils that |
| 1:35.8 | come off of our body. |
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