Popping in a pack of laundry dryer balls to a wash offers an effective solution to soften fabrics, reduce creases and drying time, and saves on the cost of energy, chemical softeners or dry sheets.

The dryer ball is designed to separate and lift the clothes throughout the drying cycle, this ensures air circulates that much easier, and the result of that is a much quicker drying time.

Using a laundry accessory of this nature is a simple case of popping in 3 or 4 dryer balls into a dryer with a full-load of clothes or sheets, and as soon as the machine completes its cycle, the dryerballs soften and eliminate a lot of the creases in the fabrics, with no call for chemicals.

Laundry balls, with large-sized diameter and nodules are effective at making more contact with a wash-load, and that ensures fabrics feel that much softer when taken out of the machine.

Common features to these laundry accessories include - a wash dries with less wrinkles, static cling, and creases, clothes dry up to 25-percent quicker, softens fabrics without a need for additional fabric softeners, a toxic free and eco-friendly alternative to chemical solutions, and an overall saving on the cost of shopping and energy bills.

OnTel, GreenWallBall, Nellie's, and Dryer Max all offer a selection of softening balls, with a resilient construction to soften, and freshen clothes, while also able to withstand repeated use.

If there is a preference to add a fragrance to a wash load, some of the laundry balls are designed to accept a scent sticks to release a citrus, lavender, or similar scent on the clothes during its drying cycle.

Apart from a pack of dryerballs, other laundry accessories include anti-static dryer balls for a static and cling-free wash, a wash ball to offer an additional scrubbing action in a machine - this also results in a more efficient wash, and requiring less soap powder and an eco-friendly washing powder is seen with the soap nuts.

On the whole, a pack of dryerballs popped into a washer/dryer ensures that towels, sheets, and clothes come out that much softer and fresher to result in a favored laundry accessory.

See more articles by William Johnstone on the energy-saving Dryer Balls, as well as those written on such topics as the versatile Kitchen Cupboard Organizers.