Washing towels: how to remove stains, keep whiteness and softness?

What can be more pleasant than a soft, fluffy bath towel or crisp from freshness, white kitchen? However, not all the landladies know how to wash the towels correctly. The small tricks of experienced housewives will tell you how to wash the stains, return the whiteness and softness.

How to wash terry products?

To keep the mahra as soft as possible, you should follow some rules.

1. Selects the wash mode. All terry products must be washed at a temperature of no more than 60 degrees, and shorn( velor) to 40. It is best to use a delicate mode. You can not wash in the water saving mode, because of the high hygroscopicity, a lot of water is wasted on the rinse. Spin should be set up to 800 revolutions, otherwise the fibers can be deformed.
2. Choosing a detergent. Choosing between liquid and dry powder, the preference should be given to the first. If it is still dry, then it needs to be poured less than indicated on the packaging, and also use the additional rinse function.
3. Use of additional tools. To keep the towels soft, you need to add an air conditioner with a silicone in the wash. If such a tool is not at hand, you can soak them in ordinary salt water for 30 minutes.
4. Drying, ironing terry towels. Although the products from the mahry dry for a long time, from drying on electrical appliances it is better to refrain. This fabric loves fresh air and does not tolerate ironing. To keep the towels neat, you need to hang them carefully, and then fold them. In extreme cases, you can iron the products with steam.

Important role played by the quality of towels, branded withstand more washings and preserve the original appearance longer.

Wash kitchen towels

Most housewives use waffle towels for the kitchen. They are easier to wash and dry faster. But how to keep them clean and tidy, and most importantly, what to wash?

• First of all, you should use kitchen towels for their intended purpose, that is for hands. To wipe the table should be a separate sponge or cloth, for hot dishes - potholders.
• It will be easier to wash them if you do it daily. The stained spots are removed much worse, and to use a clean towel is much more pleasant.
• Colored products should be washed at a temperature of 40-60 degrees, white - up to 95.
• Pre-soaking in a solution of detergent for dishes will help get rid of greasy marks, and rubbing with soap will return the whiteness.
• If white towels can not be laundered, then the old look can be restored by boiling or using bleach. It is important that the products are clean, otherwise the dirt will only boil.
• It must be remembered that chemical bleach destroys the fabric, thereby reducing its lifespan.

Tip

Keep a few hand towels in the kitchen, this will help keep them clean longer.

Displays the spots

If you do not get the stains in the usual way, then you should use the stain remover or make it yourself from improvised means.

1. Remove stains from fruits and vegetables. To the place of contamination, pour a little vinegar or pour citric acid, lightly rub and leave for 15-20 minutes. After this time, the towel needs to be washed.
2. Spots from tea, coffee, ketchup. Washing of such traces will help ammonia, glycerine and common salt. To do this, soak the towels for 1 hour in hot saline( 1 tablespoon per liter of water) or apply ammonia and glycerin to the stains at a ratio of 1 to 4.
3. Greasy stains. Traces of greasy hands are most easily removed with a dishwashing detergent. If the stains are extensive, the products should be soaked in a soap solution, and apply a small amount of dirt to the spot. You can also use soap. To do this, the damp cloth is abundantly rubbed and packaged in an airtight bag for 6-8 hours. Then the usual machine wash is started.
4. Universal tools. The easiest method to remove a stain is to apply hydrogen peroxide to it and leave it for half an hour. Also get rid of any pollution, you can use vegetable oil, bleach and a simple washing powder. To do this, you need to boil 5 liters of water in a large bucket, add there 2 tablespoons.l.each means, stir, towels. After 1 hour, the products should be removed and washed in the usual manner.

Advice

Do not resort to special methods for removing stains more than once a month, otherwise the towels will quickly wear out.

Return the snow-white color of

What if the fabric has turned yellow and has become unpresentable? There are several ways to return whiteness to hand towels.

• Mustard method. On a damp cloth it is necessary to put a pulp from dry mustard and leave for 4-6 hours. After that, towels should be washed or thoroughly rinsed in warm water.
• Manganese bleaching. In a bucket of boiling water, add potassium permanganate to the pale pink solution, pour in the detergent( 150 g for 5 kg of laundry).Then immerse the towels for 2-3 hours, rinse.
• With boric acid. The products are soaked for 2 hours in boiling water with addition of boric acid( 2 tablespoons per 5 liters of water).Then they need to be washed.
• Babushkin recipe. This is the most gentle method of boiling, which allows you to wash even old, yellow towels. To do this, grate 200 g of laundry soap 72%, add 50 g of soda ash and boil the products for 1 hour.

The majority of housewives with strong soiling just throw out towels, not knowing how to wash them. However, the above tips and rules will help reanimate even the most hopeless product, significantly increasing its service life.