One such trend: The notion of pouring fabric softener into your toilet tank to keep your bathroom smelling fresh. But is this hack as effective and safe as it seems? “No, no, no! It may smell ...

No one likes a toilet that stinks to high heaven. In the quest for a fresher, more pleasant bathroom, some people have started to try an unusual so-called hack: adding fabric softener to their ...

Fabric softener is notoriously divisive. In fact, when we interviewed Rich Handel, a test project leader at Consumer Reports who specializes in laundry, about the things he would never do as a ...