Some items of note, two balls are never enough. I used four balls at least. If lots of clothing items, the more you need. But at least four. I have 12 balls that I spread across my dryer loads (at coin laundries).

I never used a softener (especially never used chemical laden dryer sheets!), but my clothes and towels were soft. It is taking some getting use to the really unsoft towels from being dried in the sun! I haven’t been using my usual laundry detergent, using the washing machine sample instead, so that may be part of the problem. It is probably a petroleum product. I think totally plant based laundry detergents cause clothing to be softer. I was using an eco brand that had soybean oil in it and claimed that it acted as a softener. But the Ecover brand that I have been using this year does not use soy and yet my clothes were soft. So I think for my next load I will use it and see if clothes are softer even when dried in the sun.

Bottomline, the recycled wool dryer balls may be as good as the PVC ones, if had four of them.

Or you can use a laundry softener. Ecover makes one…

Thyme