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Why you need to go home and wash your pillows

You might be good at changing your bedsheets but what about washing your duvet and pillows?

Research from the bedding company Slumberdown suggests that nearly half of people in the UK never wash their bedding.

Cleaning expert Delia Canning said pillows, duvets beds and bed frames are "not given the attention they require".

"The pillows and duvets become contaminated with soils that we create ourselves including organic matter created at night, sweat, spit, skin and leaking from orifices".

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on September 24 2015.

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