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Room temperature water? No washing powder? I'm not familiar with underarmour but it sounds like you're just rinsing it instead of washing it.
Fwiw I wash mine at 60°C, as it kills the bacteria.
Washing powder is just dry laundry detergent.
Any detergent/soap should theoretically kill bacteria even using cold water. It destroys the cell membrane.
Sadly for whatever reason it doesn't (google confirmed this)
Welp that's a bit of a rabbit hole i didn't expect to go down today lol
Washing at 60° C is only really required for people with a compromised immune system or in a household with certain infectuous diseases, which may spread through clothing or other textiles. The bacteria on clothing are not usually pathogenic to the degree that a 60° C wash is necessary. For whites, bleaching is also an alternative.