60 degrees laundry after washing just not fresh

After some time, I noticed that the 60 degrees laundry (towels, underwear, socks) after washing just did not smell as fresh as the rest of the laundry, despite the same washing powder ...

I have always used the Eco setting for all types of laundry. And that was the problem.

The WaMa comes in the Eco program just not on the 60 degrees, which was clearly noticeable compared to the normal program on the porthole. (In the normal program, it is clearly noticeable that it is hotter and the laundry is also washed much longer hot) And so it was not washed really hot at each wash, which made the slightly musty smell.

Now I use only with 30 or 40 degree wash the Eco program and always put the next higher (30 ° is set to 40 ° and 40 ° to 50 °) so the WaMa comes in any case to the desired degree setting and the laundry gets clean.

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