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In Panama, middle-class people do not usually have hot water as a choice in their bathroom, kitchen our laundry. My guess is the weather. Panama is a very hot country that reaches 33C every day and can go up to 36C during midday.

My first experience doing laundry with hot water was back in 2005 when I was living on my own (University dorm). Nothing bad happened the first time though, but I did have some clothes shrank a few times. My mom thought the shrinking was not a real thing and was one of those things you see on TV but are not true.  Since we do not own a dryer machine, instance we use the sun to dry our clothes outside -all that heat needs to by use on something don’t you think?- the clothes never got shrink.I do not remember making a temperature selection back in my college years, when the choice was available. In Panama, you can buy washing machines that can handle hot water entrance, however must people do not have hot water in their houses, so the button to change temperature is there but it is pointless, during the years we have learned to ignore temperature altogether and only use what is available (which is not cold water).

Here in England, I have the choice available again and at the beginning, I was using cold water (I would only chose the time; I did not know the default temperature was cold). Later on Boyfriend told me to use hot water, but I thought it was not necessary, I mean, I have never used hot water before and my clothes were washed with no problem (they were clean). One day while reading the detergent instruction I found out the temperate in which the detergent is meant to works, 30C.

Electricity is very expensive in almost every country and England is not the exception. Having a detergent that is able to clean your clothes with a temperature as low as 20C will definitively make the electricity bill drop and what about the environment?

Since the temperature in Panama is 32C for most of the day, perhaps that is also the water –that comes from the tap- temperature.

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