Wine or tomato sauce stains on your shirt came off, but are really your fresh washed clothes out of bacteria? A recent study reveals that over 80% of our clothes are contaminated with E.coli or Salmonella bacteria.
If you want to live in a healthy environment or to protect your clothes, you tend to reduce water temperature of your washing machine. Moreover, many manufacturers of detergents encourages this to reduce energy costs. But experts are worried that this can affect our health.

Learn to properly wash clothes.

Even though we associate washing with clean and fragrant clothes, a single washing machine full of dirty clothes can contain over 100 million E.coli bacteria.
A recent study warns that cold water is not strong enough to kill all bacteria. Sally Bloomfield, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene initiated a campaign to educate the population on washing clothes hygiene. “We must learn to properly wash our clothes. Cleanliness and hygiene are two different things,” said Sally Bloomfield.
Contaminated cloths with golden streptococcus causes skin infections, urinary tract and pneumonia. Researchers believe that the only way to destroy bacteria is to wash the clothes at temperatures above 40 degrees, with detergents that contain bleaching agents.

The ideal temperature for laundry – 60 degrees.
Even though many people are resistant to these bacteria, sensitive individuals with a weak immune system, may have serious health problems. Researchers believe that washing your clothes at lower temperatures than 40 degrees destroys only 6% of bacteria. The ideal temperature is 60 degrees, to destroy all bacteria.

Watch the detergents.

Also, you have to pay attention when you pick detergent. There are non-biological detergents that contain bleaching agents, which cleans and disinfects and also relies on enzymes that remove dirt particles.

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Sleeping under the Northern Lights: that's what you can do at this hotel in Finland.

Ever dreamt of sleeping under the night sky? Well, you can sleep under the Aurora Borealis when you are at this hotel in Finland.

Picture courtesy: Facebook/Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort.

If you love travelling and you are equally fond of the winters, you are most likely a person who loves snow.

Now, let us help your imagination go a little further. You are inside a glass top igloo in the middle of a snow-clad landscape. When you lie down, all you can see above is the Northern Lights. Such a surreal view, won't it be? 

Well, there's just one place in this planet where you can actually do this. It's the Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort, a hotel right in the middle of Finnish Lapland, and at a mere stone's throw distance from Urho Kekkonen National Park, the largest national park in Finland.

Picture courtesy: Facebook/Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort.

While words can fall short to describe the beauty surrounding this hotel, the environment is cleaner than most places in the world. While taking a hike in the surroundings, you can even quench your thirst from a stream flowing past because the water is so pure.

Staying the nights in this hotel can be magical. Located just north of the Arctic Circle, the igloo rooms of this property offer unobstructed views of the Aurora Borealis. In this place, you can see the Aurora Borealis for as many as 200 days in a year.

The resort offers accommodation in four different categories: queen suites, log cabins, a traditional house, and the famous glass igloos.

Picture courtesy: Facebook/Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort.

Although the temperatures in these parts can fall up to minus 40 degrees, the glass igloos are made in such a way that you can easily survive those temperatures. The igloos are constructed using special thermal glass that keeps the inside warm and protects itself from frosting over.

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