Ever throw a shoe in the dryer with some clothes and find that the the clothes dried a little faster or seemed softer? That’s the idea behind dryer balls, except way better than a shoe!
You’ll find numerous styles, colors and materials, but they all share the same common concept: prevent your clothes from clumping together in the dryer. All of them share one feature in common – little “fingers” that “stick” to textiles and helps pull them apart. Clearly this is much better than a shoe or a tennis ball and they certainly work.
While the dryer balls claim to dry clothes faster, I haven’t found that to be the case. Howewver, if there are simply too many clothes in the dryer, the balls won’t work. But what I have found is that the dryer balls definitely make clothes feel softer and prevent some wrinkles. This result was obvious with bamboo towels we have. These towels consistently took a long time to dry and came out of the dryer rather “rough” – well with the dryer balls, the towels come out noticeably softer anyway.
So for around ten bucks, a set of dryer balls will easily pay for themselves in savings over dryer sheets or fabric softeners, plus no chemical residue.

