An influencer has sparked global online outrage after she shared an underwear washing hack many wish they could unsee.<\/p>\n
Tara Woodcox, who has more than 700,000 followers on TikTok, and hundreds of thousands of followers across other platforms, posted a controversial video late in 2025, which has had a resurgence this month.<\/p>\n
Filming in a hotel room, Woodcox starts the video by saying she is going to show her Instagram followers one of the \u201ccoolest tricks ever\u201d.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSay you\u2019re travelling and you didn\u2019t pack enough underwear and you\u2019re just like, \u2018oh my gosh what am I going to wear tomorrow\u2019,\u201d she began.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery room has a coffee pot thing in it.<\/p>\n \u201cAll you have to do, put your underwear where you would put the coffee grounds. You close it, you press brew and it puts scorching hot water through it.<\/p>\n \u201cThen the hair dryer in the bathroom, you blow dry those bad boys, and you got yourself a cleaner pair of underwear to wear.\u201d<\/p>\n The uproar from disgusted social media users was fierce.<\/p>\n \u201cJAILLLL,\u201d one user commented.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m shocked this video hasn\u2019t been deleted, this surely has to be evidence for hotels to take action,\u201d another user wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is so unsettling, I\u2019m so concerned for anyone who has caught anything from you or anyone listening to this advice. It\u2019s not ok, this is not ok. Please delete this video,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n Many vowed to never user a hotel coffee machine ever again.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll never use a hotel room coffee maker again,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n Others offered more sanitary alternatives.<\/p>\n \u201cOr wash them in the sink with hot water AND soap,\u201d one Instagram user wrote.<\/p>\n Woodcox has not taken down the video, despite many users calling for her to do so. They are concerned that people who didn\u2019t previously know about this \u201chack\u201d will start doing it at the expense of other hotel guests.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to influence someone the wrong way with this,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n At the end of her video, Woodcox said she didn\u2019t realise how many people already knew about her \u201chack\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned it years ago from a friend that was a flight attendant and it\u2019s brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An influencer has sparked global online outrage after she shared an underwear washing hack many wish they could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-503280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}