Contents:
- Bleached sparingly
- Old effective method
- Whiten towels with vegetable oil
- Soak in cold water
Sooner or later any mistress faces the problem of how to whiten a terry towel at home? After all, this is the most popular and universal thing in the house. It is necessary both in the bathroom and in the kitchen - and dry the plates after washing, and remove the pan from the plate, and cover the patties and wipe your hands. The towels are soiled very quickly and in the most unscrupulous manner, and it is very hard to wash the stains from them.
Bleached sparingly
Clean, fresh towels are the decoration of the house and the pride of the mistress. Cotton, waffle and terry products are the best ones. They persistently withstand the inevitable boiling, frequent washing, ironing, bleaching, absorb moisture well and quickly dry.
Of course, you can use expensive shop bleach and stain removers, but in themselves, kitchen towels are usually inexpensive, I would like to save on washing. Therefore, housewives come up with all the new methods to whiten towels at home, mixing the most affordable components.
The old effective method
Our grandmothers always used the easiest way to whiten old terry towels at home: boiling with powder for washing clothes. Sometimes the powder is replaced with cooking soap in a mixture with soda ash, boiled for 15-20 minutes, rinsed and dried in the fresh air so that the smell of soap and boiling faded away.
- With hydrogen peroxide.
This method requires about 15 liters of boiling water, 4 tbsp.l.hydrogen peroxide and 1 tbsp.l.ammonia. We mix everything and put the laundry there for half an hour. The result is no stains and no noticeable bleaching of the tissue.
- With soap and manganese.
Cooking at once 2 basins, fill up to half boiling water. In the first three soaps on a large grater, in the second we pour the potassium permanganate until a red color is obtained. We pour the contents of the first pelvis into the second. The resulting mixture will turn brown. It's hard to believe, but it's she who can whiten your terry towels! We are waiting for 6 hours, rinsing and drying clothes.
Whiten towels with vegetable oil
Probably the most unusual and effective method that allows you to bleach terry towels at home is soaking with the use of vegetable oil. Oil softens old stains, helping them to wash.
Take 15 liters of boiling water:
- two-thirds of a glass of washing powder( any);
- 3 tbsp.l.bleach( better powder);
- 3 tbsp.l.vegetable oil( refined);
- 3 tbsp.l.acetic essences.
Some mistresses replace soda with vinegar, in that case the solution is strongly foamed and when working with it one should be extremely cautious. We mix everything thoroughly until the powder is completely dissolved, soak the dry laundry for the night. In the morning we squeeze and send it to the washing machine. Minimum effort and excellent result! Not only fat, but even tea and coffee is washed off.
Tip
First, dissolve in water the powder and bleach, and only then pour in the oil. The film, which forms a vegetable oil on the surface of water, makes the dissolution process difficult.
Soak in cold water
Not everyone is ready to tolerate the peculiar smell of boiled linen. In this case, you can use one of the methods that will help to wash the stains from the towels without heat treatment. Soak terry towels before washing, this will greatly improve the end result.
Advice
Do not press towels in the washing machine at high speed, do not overdry them in the sun - from this they become stiff.
- In salt water.
In a basin with cold water we pour salt at the rate of 1 tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water. We leave in this solution dirty towels for a couple of hours, then wash as usual.
- In household soap.
Wet towels are generously rubbed with soap and put into a plastic bag, squeezing all the air. After a day, rinsing in cool water without powder. This method allows you to wash greasy stains, remove unpleasant odor and yellowness from the laundry.
- In a dishwashing liquid.
Detergent can remove grease not only from dishes, but also from towels. To remove all greasy stains, just 10 minutes of soaking in the solution before washing. And if you need to whiten waffle or cotton towels, drip a bit of ammonia into the water.
We hope our advice can help you whiten your favorite, but hopelessly spoiled things and will finally allow you to wash out old stains. After all, the comfort in the house consists of pleasant little things, such as snow-white tablecloths or fresh fluffy towels.
