Woolzies Dryer Balls Review and Giveaway

Woolzies Dryer Balls Review & Giveaway

I was sent a box of 6 extra-large Woolzies Dryer Balls to review. At the end of this review, there is a giveaway for a box of their dryer balls.

I have been using dryer balls for about a year now. I started using dryer balls while I was pregnant after making the decision to cloth diaper our daughter. I learned from my cloth diaper research that I was going to need to stop using fabric softener and dryer sheets because they are not good for cloth diapers. Since we ran out of dryer sheets, I decided instead of buying more, I would buy dryer balls. I bought 6 large dryer balls from a work at home mom (WAHM) on Etsy. I was impressed with the size and expected them to work well. I was looking for my clothes to be static free and for a reduction in dryer time. Well, I was disappointed. I didn’t notice a reduction in drying time at all, but my clothes were static free so I kept using them.

When I signed up to review the Woolzies Dryer Balls, I honestly wasn’t expecting much from them. I opened the box and was pleasantly surprised; they are so much more dense than the WAHM dryer balls I had been using. “Hmm, maybe that will help decrease drying time” I thought to myself as I threw them in the dryer for the first time.

I wash six loads of laundry a week: my clothes and my daughter’s clothes, my husband’s work pants, my husband’s other clothes, sheets and towels, and two loads of diapers. Because I’m a busy WAHM I know my washer and dryer routines and times like the back of my hand so I was able to compare drying time easily.  I have broken diapers into two categories (covers/shells/All in Ones (AIOs) and inserts/flats/prefolds) because before using Woolzies, I would dry everything for 15 minutes on hot and then pull the covers, shells and all in ones (AIOs) out to finish drying on the line and let the inserts, flats and prefolds finish drying on low.

Type of Laundry	Drying Time without Dryer Balls	Drying Time with Woolzies Dryer Balls	Time Saved
My clothes & my daughter’s clothes	40 minutes	25 minutes	15 minutes
My husband’s work pants	45 minutes with patches of dampness requiring overnight on the line	40 minutes	5 minutes
My husband’s other clothes	35 minutes	25 minutes	10 minutes
Sheets and towels	45 minutes	30 minutes	15 minutes
Diapers
Covers/Shells/AIOs	15 minutes  in dryer 1 hour on the line for covers/shells 2.5 hours on the line for AIOs	15 minutes in the dryer for covers/shells 1 hour on the line for AIOs	All the time on the line for covers and shells and an hour and a half on the line for AIOs
Inserts/Flats/Prefolds	45 minutes (15 minutes hot and 30 minutes on low)	30 minutes (15 minutes hot and 15 minutes on low)	15 minutes

My husband’s work pants are double layer work pants for working in the warehouse and are lined with flannel to keep warm, so I wasn’t expecting much reduction for these and I am impressed with the 5 minutes since without the dryer balls I would pull them out at 45 minutes and still have patches of dampness so they had to be hung on the line overnight.

I was impressed with the results of our cloth diapers. I love that I can dry everything on hot for 15 minutes and pull the covers and shells out completely drying. My All in Ones used to take what seemed like forever to dry on the line (it was really only 2.5 hours), and now they are done on the line in an hour. The fact that everything else only takes 30 minutes in the dryer is amazing and very helpful when I’m trying to get diaper laundry done and ready for the next day.

All our clothes are static and wrinkle free when I remove them from the dryer and I don’t hear the dryer balls bouncing around in the dryer is which a nice plus, since it can get annoying after awhile.

Overall, I am beyond impressed with the Woolzies Dryer Balls and I will definitely continue using them in the future. You can find Woolzies Dryer Balls at www.woolzies.com.

                                                    

As part of the review, Woolzies has agreed to do a giveaway of one box of six dryer balls for the readers of the blog. Thank you Woolzies! The giveaway will go live at 12:00am May 17^th and ends at 12:00am on May 24^th. All times are east coast time. Good luck and have fun readers!

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