How to whiten clothes at home

Contents:
  • Than to bleach clothes?
  • How to whiten clothes made from linen and cotton at home?
  • How to whiten delicate things?
  • How to whiten any things at home?
  • How to safely whiten baby clothes?
  • Useful advices

White clothes are always associated with the holiday and how unpleasant it is at the festive attire to discover random spots. As for the children, they probably wear white clothes on purpose to know what he ate today, where he walked and how many times he fell. To withdraw all these spots of a simple powder can be small, and for small children and dangerous, so you need special tools that can always be found at hand. How to whiten clothes at home quickly and safely, you will learn from this article.

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Than to bleach clothes?

To return the attractiveness of your favorite white things, a lot of money is suitable, and, all of them, for sure, will be found in your medicine cabinet or in the kitchen. You can come in handy:

  • powder for automatic washing;
  • bleach "Whiteness";
  • ammonia;
  • potassium permanganate;
  • hydrogen peroxide;
  • baking soda;
  • laundry soap;
  • salt;
  • deep bowl or pelvis for soaking.
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How to bleach clothes made from linen and cotton at home?

Before you begin work on bleaching, find out what kind of fabric clothes are made of. This will greatly facilitate the task, since different means are effective for different materials.

Method 1

If your item is cotton or made of linen, you can use ammonia, turpentine, shop bleach and salt. To bleach a thing with ammonia, follow this step-by-step instruction:

  1. Collect the basin of hot water.
  2. Add 5 tbsp.ammonia.
  3. Put the laundry on.
  4. Leave for 3 hours.
  5. Wash with soap dispenser by hand.

Method 2

You can also use turpentine to remove stains from cotton fabrics. Apply it as follows:

  1. Wash laundry.
  2. Take a deep bowl.
  3. Fill it with 5 liters of water.
  4. Add 5 tbsp.turpentine. Soak for 3 hours in a laundry solution.
  5. Wash and rinse.

Method 3

Good at bleaching shop bleach "Whiteness".Use it better this way:

  1. Wash things from light dirt.
  2. Pour half of the hot water into the hose.
  3. Add the tool cap. Soak the laundry for 5 minutes.
  4. Rinse with plenty of water.

Note: this tool is effective, but dangerous. Often it can not be used. Also, do not soak in this bleach clothes for more than 5 minutes.

Additional tips for the care of linen and cotton linen:

  • Do not wash such things together with clothes made of synthetics and wool - linen can become gray;
  • So that colored colored cotton and linen items are not washed, do not wash them at temperatures above 60 degrees.
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How to whiten delicate things?

A very effective way to whiten wool and silk items with salt, hydrogen peroxide. It is as follows:

  1. Take a large basin.
  2. Pour 8 l of water into it. Add 6 tablespoons of
  3. .salt. Add 2 tablespoons of
  4. .hydrogen peroxide and ammonia.
  5. Soak the laundry for 4 hours.
  6. Wash with soap.

Note: do not leave any spools from the wool, refrigerate it for 1 hour in the freezer.

Bleaching guipure and tulle things will help you peroxide and ammonia. For this:

Soak the laundry in hot water.
  • Add 2 tbsp.hydrogen peroxide and 1 tbsp.ammonia.
  • Leave for 1 hour.
  • Wash with powder.
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    How to whiten any things at home?

    A few more ways to whiten at home.

    Method 1

    1. Place a deep bowl, not plastic.
    2. Fill it with half water.
    3. Add 4 tbsp.powder for white things and a bleach cap.
    4. Put the underwear in the pelvis.
    5. Boil for 20-30 minutes.
    6. Turn off the fire.
    7. Leave things in the water for the night.
    8. In the morning, wash your laundry.

    Method 2

    1. Pour hot water into the deep basin.
    2. Add in this amount of potassium permanganate, so that the water has a barely distinctive pink tinge.
    3. Add another 250 g of detergent.
    4. Put pre-washed laundry in the pelvis.
    5. Seal with polythene.
    6. Wait for the water to cool completely.
    7. Rinse well.
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    How to safely whiten baby clothes?

    Bleaching of baby clothes should be carried out with special care and attention. For this, there are a few sparing means and methods.

    Option 1

    1. Take a deep bowl.
    2. Pour 5 liters of hot water into it.
    3. Add 6 tablespoons.soda and 2 tbsp.ammonia. Soak things for 3 hours.
    4. Rinse out.
    5. Wash with a powder machine.

    Note: if yellowness and pollution are persistent - boil the things in this solution for 20 minutes, and then stretch.

    Option 2

    To save children's things from a greyish or yellow tinge, apply this method:

    1. Take the bucket.
    2. Pour 8 liters of hot water.
    3. Add 1 tbsp.ammonia and 2 tbsp.hydrogen peroxide.
    4. Soak the laundry so that the cloth is completely absorbed by the liquid.
    5. Leave for 30 minutes. Rinse three times in clean water.

    Variant 3

    Often, bleach woolen children's items. To do this correctly and safely, use this instruction:

    1. Wet the stain with water.
    2. Scrub with soap.
    3. Dip one minute into boiling water.
    4. Wash in the usual way.
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    Useful advices

    Some tips to avoid unnecessary costs and to prevent the bleaching of children's and your things:

    • Wipe dark things apart from dark ones;
    • Do not leave soiled for a long time - immediately wash;
    • Do not leave things unattended for a long time. Do not let them stay long in the closet without work: if you do not wear, then hang out to ventilate.

    With such simple and affordable tools, you can easily return the shining whiteness to your favorite things! Try, as far as they are effective, and take yourself the appropriate method for armament, in order to extend the term of the service of things in a suitable form.