But I don't iron the fabric until I am ready to use it. I just want clean fabric with no chemicals in it. I had put some unwashed fabric in with a storage tote of washed fabric. A few month later I went to take the fabric out and ALL of my fabric in that tote smelled to high heaven. I had to go and wash everything in that tote. Now think for a moment, if the chemicals had leached from the unwashed fabric so much that it made all the fabrics in the tote smell from chemicals, imagine what a LOT of unwashed fabric would smell like in a closed room. If you don't suffer from allergies, that' great. Buy why would you want to smell the chemicals that they spray on fabric to keep bugs off? But that's is your choice, it's a free country and we can all do what we want. Wonderful, isn't it?