Do manufacturers make antidermatalogical washing machine door seals? I have customers who have eczema and use E 45 and Epiderm creams which transfers from the body onto the clothes and then onto the door seals. After continual use the seal is attacked by this cream, softening it and eventually distorting it so it leaks during wash. The only solution is to replace the seal, sometimes twice a year.
EPDM gaskets Hotpoint supplied them many years ago, we used to call the them the chip shop gaskets. In the days when gaskets were black rubber they used to disintegrate into a horrible gooey black mess in most catering establishments. They did however cost three or four times the cost of the standard seals, not seen any of them for years.