How to lighten your jeans at home?

For sure, those who follow the fashion or those who simply tired of coloring their jeans, but they do not want to change to a new model, they faced such a problem, how to lighten jeans at home. How much you can change the shade of the fabric, how to do it correctly and if it's possible to lighten not all jeans, but only individual parts of the trousers - you will learn all this from this article.

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How to whiten jeans with improvised ways at home?

There are many means by which you can whiten your jeans at home. Each of the ways has its own peculiarity - both positive and negative. All this you need to know in order to make jeans lighter, but not to spoil the material:

1. Chlorine - is quite aggressive towards tissue fibers, strongly and unpleasantly smells during use. But it quickly gives the desired effect. It is thanks to such a tool with the help of various auxiliary tools, such as: brushes, sponges, spray, you can get an unusual pattern. As an alternative to powdered bleach it is possible to make whitening of jeans "Belize" - it also has this substance in its composition.
2. Bleaching with soda gives a much weaker result. In order to achieve the desired shade, sometimes it is necessary to lighten the fabric at least 3 times, and this is an additional waste of time. To avoid unpleasant consequences from such bleaching, it is undesirable to do bleaching of jeans with soda in a washing machine, because this can damage the drum. But despite this, thanks to this method, it is possible to bleach a model of trousers, which is made of a thin fabric.
3. For partial whitening or for obtaining a pattern on the surface of trousers, citric acid is sometimes used. The effectiveness of this method is low, but the harm to the material is minimal, and the process itself is quite safe.
4. Hydrogen peroxide - gives a qualitative result, but we must take into account its high aggressiveness and speed, so that the updated pants looked beautiful.

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Use of bleach

There are special bleaches for fabrics that are made from chlorine, and there are also products that contain active oxygen.

Important! Using the second kind of chemistry, you will not be able to change the color very much, but using chlorine will change the color of your jeans cardinally.

To lighten your jeans at home as much as possible, you need to have at your fingertips:

• bleach - perfectly suited "whiteness";
• metal container - for example, a bucket or a deep basin;
• stick, which is necessary for what to stop jeans.

The very process of bleaching is simple enough:

1. In the capacity you have chosen, type water, add bleach, the amount is determined by eye - the more bleach, the fabric will be lighter. But there is no particular need to persevere, because bleach corrodes the tissue, so its large number will have a detrimental effect on your jeans in general.
2. Stir the solution thoroughly with a stick, then put jeans in it.
3. Place your tank of jeans on the fire.
4. Boil the water, cook the jeans for 20-30 minutes. Do not forget to stir them occasionally.

Important! Mix the jeans so that the product acts evenly on the entire fabric on the product, and not on its individual parts.

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Using baking soda

Lighten jeans with soda when they are made of thin fabric. Whitening "Belize" for these jeans will have a devastating effect - they simply disintegrate in your hands.

In this bleaching option, proceed as follows:

1. Ordinary washing powder, mix with soda in a 1: 1 ratio for the total amount.
2. Dilute with water - the volume should be such that the pants are completely immersed in the solution. Soak your jeans for 1-2 hours.
3. Thoroughly wash them.

Important! The procedure can be repeated several times in order to achieve the desired effect.

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Usage of hydrogen peroxide

As a rule, it is those who are reluctant to boil pants or to tear their favorite washing machine with baking soda as a matter of fact, how to brighten jeans with this familiar and also multifunctional hydrogen peroxide. To reduce the intensity of the original coloring of clothes, it must again be washed inside the machine. To do this, add a detergent and a few tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to the liquid container.

You can also use a tool called Domestos, which is designed for disinfection of sanitary ware. In this case, to lighten the jeans at home:

1. Half the glass of this substance must be diluted in 3 liters of water.
2. Wear rubber gloves and soak the jeans until they light up to the level you need.
3. Then thoroughly rinse and dry your jeans, and repeat the process several times as necessary.

Important! Please note that Domestos is aggressive chemistry, which can reduce the strength of even a very dense denim fabric. So do not repeat the process several times, wait at least a few days.

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Using lemon juice

Lemon juice has an incredible brightening effect. This means that they can also be used to whiten jeans at home. To do this, you need to perform the following actions:

1. Dilute 1 liter of warm water 1 tbsp.l.lemon juice or 1 tsp.citric acid. Soak the jeans in the solution for several hours.
2. After the time has elapsed, pull your jeans out of the solution.
3. Wash and dry your jeans.

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Useful advices:

• It's impossible to make dark jeans of a wholly snow-white color. You can lighten only a few tones.
• For clarification, you need to choose jeans that have a light blue color or blue, but in any case not "indigo".
• Jeans brighten spots the easiest, rather than evenly.

How do I lighten my jeans at home?

We hope that by using the tools listed in this article, you were able to update your favorite things and now they look original, and you feel more confident and attractive.