Now that summer has arrived, panic has settled in and the pre-holiday gym rush has begun.Although going to the gym can be a real chore, it's the chores afterwards that really wear us out; we're haunted by the dirty, smelly, sweaty pile of grotty gym gear. And it doesn't take a fitness fanatic to know that workout clothes, often made from polyester, elastane, lycra and other synthetic materials, are a bit complicated when it comes to washing.So here at smol we've composed a list of our top tips to tackle smelly gym clothes.1. Air them outAs tempting as it is...

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Let’s hear it for the washing machine. It’s an unsung heroine of the utility and here at smol (the home of laundry revolution) we applaud this revolutionary marvel.   Imagine life before washing machines. Early humans washed their laundry in rivers with no soap and a lot of thrashing about on rocks. It was hard work. Egyptians were busy dodging crocodiles whilst ancient Britons prayed for sunshine to get the drying done.   The ever-inventive Romans made machines called Fulling Mills. These tiny watermills worked hammers that bashed the clothes clean. Slightly better than the river dance but without soap...

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There are some big space fans here at smol. We have been following the recent adventures of the SpaceX Dragon and were excited to see its safe descent into the Atlantic Ocean after its successful docking with the International Space Station.   Talk turned to life in space and we couldn’t help but wonder about laundry. With 3 crew members on board each staying 6 months, that’s over 540 pairs of pants! Clearly, it’s not practical to take that many into orbit so they must be cleaning them somehow? Our smol capsules don’t need much room so we think they...

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In 1998 a group of catering students from Stratford-upon-Avon cooked the world’s largest Steak and Kidney pie. The pie dish measured nearly 10 metres long by over 2 metres wide and was 0.6m deep. That’s a lot of pie. And a lot of pastry (816.69kg to be precise).   We are sure the pie was delicious but can you imagine the washing up? Luckily for us and our more modest pies there are smol’s very new and very brilliant dishwash tablets. Just pop one in the dishwasher and those dirty dishes will be a thing of the past.   However,...

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“Look how big you are!”, “we’re going to need a bigger boat”, “think big” – we’re constantly told how great it is to be big. Tom Hanks famously used a magic genie wish on it.   But what if instead of being big, we could have all of the qualities, but in a smaller form? Laundry is infamously synonymous with this notion of big; overflowing piles of clothes, large detergent boxes and huge powder scoops.   But, at smol, we’ve started the laundry revolution. Think Ant-Man, of the laundry world; all the power of a larger man but concentrated into...

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