How to return white things to whiteness

Over time, from frequent washings, white things tend to get washed, white turns to gray, and if you use chlorine bleaches, your product will turn yellow. How in this case to be, how to return white things to whiteness, while not spending much effort and money? In this article we will give you some effective ways.

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Where to start?

Nowadays, store shelves abound with special means for washing white things, choosing the right powder is a guarantee of preserving the white color, but if you do not have it at hand, ask for help with the tools at hand.

To return white things to whiteness, you will need:

• laundry soap;
• drinking soda;
• hydrogen peroxide;
• liquid ammonia;
• potassium permanganate;
• boric acid;
• high-quality washing powder for washing white things;
• Vanish for white things;
• special bleach for white things.

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How to properly wash the spoiled white things?

This problem is solved in two ways: manual and machine wash. But before you start the process, pay attention to some recommendations:

1. Pre-check the pockets of things, to avoid the appearance of new stains from foreign objects.
2. To ensure that your white products retain their original color, wash in soft water:
   • with manual mode - add a little bit of baking soda into the water, it does not give rise to gray coating;
   • if you use machine wash - use emollients.
3. To make things white wear out slowly and do not acquire a yellow tinge, when washing, select the temperature mode of water 40-50 degrees.
4. Do not wash different types of fabric together, even if they are also white, this can cause undesirable changes in the material: shrinkage, pellets, gray tint.
5. To avoid yellowing and premature destruction of the fabric fibers, do not use bleach containing chlorine.
6. Difficult to remove stains beforehand.
7. Test any product before starting the process on an inconspicuous area of ​​the product.

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How to return white color to things?

Machine wash does not present any difficulties. Preliminarily separately soak the laundry in the bleach, then when washing, add it again with special powders for white things.

In addition, we offer you several effective ways how to return white things by hand washing with simple and affordable means.

Method 1

White clothing that has yellowed over time, reconstituted with 72% soap:

1. Lather the product well.
2. Put in a tight plastic bag.
3. Close to prevent air from entering.
4. Leave for a day.

Method 2

A good result for whitening washed goods is hydrogen peroxide:

1. In 5 liters of water, dilute 50 ml of peroxide.
2. Place the product in the solution.
3. Soak for several hours, stirring occasionally to restore the color evenly.
4. Rinse in clear water.

Note! A solution with peroxide whitens perfectly the fabric of any texture, but it does not destroy it.

Method 3

To return the original color, another recipe will help:

1. In a small amount of water, make a soapy solution, add 1 tablespoon to it.ammonia and peroxide. Soak the object to be cleaned for 2 hours.
2. Wash with oxygen bleach.

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How to bleach cotton white clothes?

To return white things from cotton to whiteness, you can use the following recipes:

• To soften the water and improve the quality of washing, apply ammonia, it is also the first helper to restore things from flax and cotton:
  1. Take a bucket of hot water 5 tbsp.ammonia. Soak things in the solution for a while.
  2. Observe the whitening process.
• Prepare a universal bleach yourself:
  1. For 12 liters of hot water, add 50 g of detergent, 8 tablespoons.salt, 20 ml of ammonia and 3-4 tablespoons.peroxides.
  2. Put the laundry in the resulting solution, leave for 4-5 hours.
  3. Wash hands.
  4. Rinse out.

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How correctly to boil the laundry?

The oldest way to give the original whiteness to things from cotton fabrics is boiling:

1. Take the enameled basin or tank, fill it with water.
2. Add washing powder for hand washing or finely grinded laundry soap, 1 tbsp each.salt and soda.
3. Place the laundry in a bucket.
4. Place it on the stove.
5. After boiling, periodically turn things over using wooden tongs.
6. Cook clothes for half an hour.
7. Do not allow water to boil.
8. Rinse thoroughly.
9. After the treatment, wash it in a convenient way.

Note! Remember, frequent boiling quickly wears the fabric of .

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Than more whiten things?

To return the original light color t-shirts and socks can be using boric alcohol. Add 1 liter of water to a couple of tablespoons of alcohol and soak for several hours.

For the whitening of kitchen towels, use an environmentally friendly product - dry mustard:

1. Pour the mustard powder with boiling water, stir so that there are no lumps.
2. Let it stand.
3. Put the towels in the mixture for several hours.
4. Wash.

Note! This method not only cleans, but also disinfects.

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How to whiten stains on white things?

To remove traces of oil, cream, traces of cosmetics on cotton cloth, pre-soak the thing in the following mixture:

1. Dissolve 1 liter of hot water soap rubbed on a large grater.
2. Pour 0.5 liter of kerosene into the mixture.
3. When the solution has cooled down, add 1 tbsp.soda.
4. Dampen the stain.
5. Leave for a day.
6. Wash yourself with aromatic additives.
7. Dry in a well-ventilated place.

Note! If the dirt is strong, add turpentine to the water. One wash - 2 tablespoons.

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How to get rid of the gray plaque on things made of synthetics and wool?

Several tools are also suitable for this purpose.

Option 1

Use special optical brighteners:

1. Follow the instructions to dilute the product in water. Soak for a specified time thing, make sure that the product is completely in solution.
2. Rinse out.
3. Wash as usual.

Option 2

For bleaching crepe de chine and guipure, use boric acid:

1. Add 8% of the sachet of the substance to 8 l of water.
2. Soak the product.
3. Wash with soap and detergent.

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How to return the whiteness of underwear?

Underwear gets its original appearance after the correct use of detergent powder for detergent fabrics:

1. Soak in soapy water for 30 minutes.
2. Gently wash with your hands.
3. Rinse under running water.

Note! To avoid deformation of the fabric, do not wash the laundry in the machine together with other things.

For bleaching of lace products, use special tablets for washing underwear, for example, Frau Schmidt:

1. Dissolve in water.
2. Soak the laundry for the time shown on the package.
3. Rinse out.

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How to return the whiteness of children's things?

1. In the dishwasher, wash ¼ of laundry soap or powder for washing children's things.
2. Pour 5 liters of boiling water.
3. Dilute separately in water a little of potassium permanganate until a light pink shade is formed.
4. Mix until foam formation.
5. Beforehand wash children's things into a liquid.
6. Cover with a plastic wrap.
7. Leave for 6-8 hours.
8. Rinse thoroughly.

To whiten children's clothes, wash machine wash using concentrated powder from AMWAY SA8 ™ Baby:

1. Treat stains before washing.
2. Dilute a small amount of powder in the pelvis.
3. Soak things for half an hour.
4. Add powder to the container.
5. Set the highest temperature mode that the manufacturer of the product allows.
6. Wash with a second rinse.

Note! If you wash by hand, after handling the product, rinse your hands thoroughly.

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Useful advices

1. To avoid washing the laundry, periodically change powders.
2. Do not wear light things.
3. Keep these clothes separate from the colored one.
4. Wash to the extent of contamination.

Now you know all the ways how to return white things to whiteness. You no longer need to immediately discard the thing after losing the attractiveness of the fabric. She will serve you for a while if you take advantage of our advice!