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About Static Cling: As you may know, static is caused by friction between two surfaces that result in a positive or negative charge. This is the core of your problem if you're suffering from excessive static cling. Understanding this may help you find your own ways to reduce the amount of static in your home, office, and your pants.	How to Get Rid of Static	Innnovative Static Control: Natural anti static dryer balls and dryer sheets, as I’ve mentioned, are available on the internet. The hypoallergenic qualities of such a product are immensely welcomed by people like me who suffer from extremely sensitive skin—helping us to control static and not itch like flea ridden dogs. Ionic hairdryers are available on the internet as well. Apparently they help reduce fizz and frizzly hair as well as prevent static build up, which can be a lot like a little piece of heaven for those of us with very fine hair. The Ionic-Ultrasonic Waterless Pet Brush is the perfect anti static brush for your pets. Pets with long hair, especially cats, often times collect so much static it’s impossible to touch them without shocking the crap out of them. Ionic brushes help to reduce static and add a healthy sheen to your pet’s coat. Wood floors are a perfectly natural way to keep your home static free. Not only that, but if you reduce the amount of carpet in your home you're also reducing the amount of dust in your home since carpets collect more dust than anything else in your home.
Static cling and getting rid of static cling are always a problem during a Minnesota winter. Everything seems to dry out, and everything you touch gives you a shock. Low humidity and wool socks turn your average Minnesotan into a static generator, like a plaid, woolen capacitor building up volts with each stride until we’re forced to shake someone’s hand—and then ZAP! No one is safe from static up north. That is, until today. Today, I’m going to teach you how to get rid of static. Well, getting rid of static isn’t exactly possible, seeing as how it’s a natural phenomena and all. But there are some things you can do to prevent static and keep your clothes static free, so you’re not walking down the office hall trying to look professional while your slacks crawl further and further up your leg like an obnoxious first date. Static Control
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Getting rid of static starts with keeping humidity at a normal level in your home, or office. As we all know, relative humidity drops during the winter months, leaving fabrics and other material more susceptible to generating static. Get a humidifier in your home and in your office if your boss approves (or if you’re the boss). We prefer the steam vaporizer type humidifiers because mold and bacteria don’t build up as quickly from the intense heat.
Switch from synthetic fabrics to natural fabrics if you want to prevent static buildup. Natural fibers like cotton produce less static than synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester. These Nike wind pants I’m wearing right now are 100% polyester and I have never had a pair of pants bunch up on my leg as bad as these. Check your tags and make sure your winter wardrobe consists mostly of cottons. Whatever you do, don’t wear wool and polyester together; that’s an electrical fire waiting to happen.
Of course, if you’re going to get rid of static cling, you need to use drier sheets. Now, you should know that people with sensitive skin and asthma can be affected by the toxic chemicals in drier sheets. Some people have even reported headaches due to the fumes. There are static reducing, toxin free dryer sheets out there. www.nontoxic.com sells a dryer sheet they claim will reduce static without any chemicals for 3 years.
Switching from rubber to leather shoes can help reduce static. The reason you want to switch to leather is because the rubber and synthetic fibers in regular shoes react with carpet, especially cheap carpet, and generate static. Shoe companies like Dr. Martens sell shoes that are known to cause less static; they’re called static dissipating shoes and they’re no more expensive than a regular pair of Dr. Martens. Getting rid of static has never been more fashionable!
A mixture of fabric softener and water in a spray bottle is a good static prevention tool. If you don’t have particularly sensitive skin and aren’t bothered by fabric softener, then it is recommended that you mix liquid fabric softener (1 tablespoon per spray bottle) and water in a spray bottle, and then lightly mist the furniture and carpet in your home. This is especially effective on furniture, since most furniture is upholstered with synthetic fabrics, which generate static.
Questions or suggestions? Check out our Homemaking Forum.
Anti Static Products Taking into account all of the static control tips offered above, keeping your home static free is going to cost you some money. Why? Because ionic electronic devices and furniture made with natural fibers aren’t cheap. Also, cheap carpeting is sometimes the cause of static build up, and there is anti static carpeting available if you’ve got the scratch for it. If you’re a computer builder or you just enjoy toying with electronics, there are anti static mats available to prevent an electrostatic discharge that might ruin sensitive electronics. There are anti static mats that aren’t just for computer building and electronics repair, like anti static floor mats meant to keep you from gathering static when you’re hard at work on your spreadsheets or shuffling papers. There are a ton of anti static chemicals, washes, soaps and lotions; just be sure to check the ingredients list and do your research before purchasing any of these chemical solutions, especially if you’re sensitive to environmental contagions.
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About Static Cling:

As you may know, static is caused by friction between two surfaces that result in a positive or negative charge. This is the core of your problem if you're suffering from excessive static cling. Understanding this may help you find your own ways to reduce the amount of static in your home, office, and your pants.

How to Get Rid of Static

Innnovative Static Control:

Natural anti static dryer balls and dryer sheets, as I’ve mentioned, are available on the internet. The hypoallergenic qualities of such a product are immensely welcomed by people like me who suffer from extremely sensitive skin—helping us to control static and not itch like flea ridden dogs.

Ionic hairdryers are available on the internet as well. Apparently they help reduce fizz and frizzly hair as well as prevent static build up, which can be a lot like a little piece of heaven for those of us with very fine hair.

The Ionic-Ultrasonic Waterless Pet Brush is the perfect anti static brush for your pets. Pets with long hair, especially cats, often times collect so much static it’s impossible to touch them without shocking the crap out of them. Ionic brushes help to reduce static and add a healthy sheen to your pet’s coat.

Wood floors are a perfectly natural way to keep your home static free. Not only that, but if you reduce the amount of carpet in your home you're also reducing the amount of dust in your home since carpets collect more dust than anything else in your home.

Static cling and getting rid of static cling are always a problem during a Minnesota winter. Everything seems to dry out, and everything you touch gives you a shock. Low humidity and wool socks turn your average Minnesotan into a static generator, like a plaid, woolen capacitor building up volts with each stride until we’re forced to shake someone’s hand—and then ZAP! No one is safe from static up north. That is, until today. Today, I’m going to teach you how to get rid of static. Well, getting rid of static isn’t exactly possible, seeing as how it’s a natural phenomena and all. But there are some things you can do to prevent static and keep your clothes static free, so you’re not walking down the office hall trying to look professional while your slacks crawl further and further up your leg like an obnoxious first date.

Static Control

Questions or suggestions? Check out our Homemaking Forum.

Getting rid of static starts with keeping humidity at a normal level in your home, or office. As we all know, relative humidity drops during the winter months, leaving fabrics and other material more susceptible to generating static. Get a humidifier in your home and in your office if your boss approves (or if you’re the boss). We prefer the steam vaporizer type humidifiers because mold and bacteria don’t build up as quickly from the intense heat.

Switch from synthetic fabrics to natural fabrics if you want to prevent static buildup. Natural fibers like cotton produce less static than synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester. These Nike wind pants I’m wearing right now are 100% polyester and I have never had a pair of pants bunch up on my leg as bad as these. Check your tags and make sure your winter wardrobe consists mostly of cottons. Whatever you do, don’t wear wool and polyester together; that’s an electrical fire waiting to happen.

Of course, if you’re going to get rid of static cling, you need to use drier sheets. Now, you should know that people with sensitive skin and asthma can be affected by the toxic chemicals in drier sheets. Some people have even reported headaches due to the fumes. There are static reducing, toxin free dryer sheets out there. www.nontoxic.com sells a dryer sheet they claim will reduce static without any chemicals for 3 years.

Switching from rubber to leather shoes can help reduce static. The reason you want to switch to leather is because the rubber and synthetic fibers in regular shoes react with carpet, especially cheap carpet, and generate static. Shoe companies like Dr. Martens sell shoes that are known to cause less static; they’re called static dissipating shoes and they’re no more expensive than a regular pair of Dr. Martens. Getting rid of static has never been more fashionable!

A mixture of fabric softener and water in a spray bottle is a good static prevention tool. If you don’t have particularly sensitive skin and aren’t bothered by fabric softener, then it is recommended that you mix liquid fabric softener (1 tablespoon per spray bottle) and water in a spray bottle, and then lightly mist the furniture and carpet in your home. This is especially effective on furniture, since most furniture is upholstered with synthetic fabrics, which generate static.

Questions or suggestions? Check out our Homemaking Forum.

Anti Static Products

Taking into account all of the static control tips offered above, keeping your home static free is going to cost you some money. Why? Because ionic electronic devices and furniture made with natural fibers aren’t cheap. Also, cheap carpeting is sometimes the cause of static build up, and there is anti static carpeting available if you’ve got the scratch for it. If you’re a computer builder or you just enjoy toying with electronics, there are anti static mats available to prevent an electrostatic discharge that might ruin sensitive electronics. There are anti static mats that aren’t just for computer building and electronics repair, like anti static floor mats meant to keep you from gathering static when you’re hard at work on your spreadsheets or shuffling papers. There are a ton of anti static chemicals, washes, soaps and lotions; just be sure to check the ingredients list and do your research before purchasing any of these chemical solutions, especially if you’re sensitive to environmental contagions.

Home | Homemaking | how to get rid of static

Saint Paul Media, Inc. cannot be held responsible for any injury or damage that you may cause to yourself, others, or property when following any advice presented on this website.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.