How to whiten towels at home without boiling?

In the kitchen without towels, no mistress can do. Without them, even a supermodern kitchen will not be comfortable. But after a while beautiful and bright earlier towels are transformed into plain-looking rags of incomprehensible color, covered with different spots. What to do? How to whiten kitchen towels at home without boiling to return their original appearance? Of course, you can use household chemicals, but there are other ways to quickly and effectively whiten kitchen towels at home. Their advantage is that they do not harm the tissues, can be used often and without harm to health, and there are components for such bleaching in almost any kitchen.

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Useful advices

Kitchen towels are made from different fabrics. The most popular are linen and waffle towels.

Important! Terry fabrics are not the best choice for the kitchen, as they dry for a long time, and the harmful microflora develops faster in them.

But there are several recommendations that are the same for all kitchen textiles:

• It is more difficult to get rid of old dirt than from fresh ones. Therefore, in time change towels, wash them more often.
• Use several sets alternately.
• If you cook something in the kitchen, then along with towels, use napkins, paper towels, which after use can simply be thrown away.
• Do not use towels to clean the dirty table, grease and other contaminants.
• To make the towels less dirty, after washing, iron them with iron.
• White towels made from natural fabrics can be boiled. Only before boiling it is desirable to stretch them.
• Colored towels with patterns can not be boiled - they are washed at a temperature of 40 degrees, and for the removal of stains using special means, for example, oxygen bleaches.
• Hang kitchen towels away from cookers, ovens and other household appliances. This will help to protect kitchen textiles from the appearance of hard-to-remove stains.
• Try to use in the kitchen dishes with a tight-fitting lid. Then there will not be greasy spots around the kitchen, and there is less chance that your towels will get dirty.

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Methods of whitening towels

Skilful use of some of the products that are available in every kitchen can give the most unexpected results. It turns out that you can whiten towels with vegetable oil. There are several ways to use oil when bleaching kitchen textiles, let's look at more details.

Vegetable oil with bleaching

Oil has the property of softening the dried stains, respectively - they are then easier to wash off. That is why it is added during bleaching:

• Pour 10 liters of water into a bucket and put on a fire. As water boils, you need to pour in 20 ml of oil( sunflower will do the best), pour 20 grams of dry bleach, 50 grams of detergent and 30 grams of soda. Bleach can be taken by anyone, for example "Boss" or "Swan".In the prepared solution, put towels, turn off the fire, leave it to cool. Then you need to rinse the towels and hang them.

Important! Bleach can be replaced by half a glass of vinegar.

• In boiling water, three tablespoons of oil, detergent, bleach and soda are added. Towels are left in the solution and left for the night. In the morning, you can start a regular washing machine.

Important! It is advisable to set the rinse mode to rinse the product well.

• The third way to us came from Japan. The bucket is filled with water - its temperature should be about 60 degrees. In the water, add 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 1 tablespoon mustard powder, 1 tablespoon of vinegar. In this solution we put towels, close the bucket with a lid. After 12 hours, remove the items and rinse four times, alternately in hot or cold water.

Laundry soap

This years-proven method allows you to deal with yellowness, with greasy stains and with an unpleasant odor:

1. Wet contaminated products, soap them well with a laundry soap.
2. Then put them in a cellophane bag so that the air does not penetrate inside.
3. Leave for a day.
4. Then the products need only be rinsed.

Manganetsovka

Everyone knows potassium permanganate, which in everyday life is called potassium permanganate, will help effectively whiten kitchen towels at home. It is a strong oxidizer, so it bleaches things well.

To process the laundry, you need to make the following mixture:

• Scrunch 100 grams of laundry soap on the grater.
• Dilute potassium permanganate in the pot to a bright pink color.
• Dilute soap in 10 liters of boiling water and pour there potassium permanganate. You should get a solution of a dirty brown color.

In this solution, place pre-washed items, the container should be tightly closed and leave at least 6 hours. Then the products need to be rinsed.

Important! Instead of soap, you can use a glass of detergent.

Hydrogen Peroxide and Ammonium Alcohol

Another effective way to remove stains from kitchen towels at home.

Important! It is also suitable for delicate things, since the fabrics are not damaged in this case.

We prepare the solution and apply it:

1. 6 liters of water, heated to 70 degrees, comes 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide and 1 tablespoon of ammonia.
2. Put pre-washed laundry in ready-made mortar, leave it for 20 minutes.
3. Then you should rinse the towels properly.

Mustard powder

Here is another proven recipe - wash the kitchen towels with mustard.

Important! Dry mustard is an excellent bleach, does not spoil the fibers of the fabric.

How to apply:

• It is necessary to pour a little powder into the hot water.
• 1 gram of water is 15 grams of mustard.
• This mixture should stand for a while.

Important! For bleaching, we do not need a powder precipitate, but a cloudy liquid that forms on the surface of the mixture. It contains active ingredients that bleach the fabric, and also degrease it.

• It is necessary to leave soaked in this liquid of a towel for some hours, then as it is necessary to rinse.
• No washing is required for this method.

Salt:

1. In common, common salt is added to the cool water - 1 liter spoon goes to 1 liter.
2. In this solution, things are left for a while - depending on the degree of contamination, you can leave 1 to 8 hours.
3. Then wash the towels as usual.

Detergent for dishes:

1. In 10 liters of water dilute 20 grams of any dishwashing detergent.
2. If there are large grease spots, they can be rubbed undiluted in water.
3. Leave for 10-20 minutes, then wash.

Soda and ammonia

This method will perfectly bleach white products:

1. For 5 liters of water comes 10 tablespoons of soda and 5 spoons of ammonia.
2. Things soak in the solution for 3-4 hours.
3. Then you can wash in the usual mode.

Important! Before washing the product, it is advisable to rinse.

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Bleaching in the washing machine

In the modern world, everything is washed in a machine, it is possible to carry out whitening in it. Just remember the following:

• White towels should be washed separately from colored ones, kitchen textiles should be best washed separately from any other things.
• Bleach bleach along with the powder according to the manufacturer's recommendations on the packaging.
• Wash the towels in the pre-wash mode at a temperature of at least 70 degrees.
• Choose a good tested powder and bleach.

Important! If molds appear on your towels, you can get rid of it in a simple way: just after washing, rinse the laundry in water with the addition of vinegar or hydrogen peroxide.

Now you can easily whiten even the most stale spots and grease from kitchen towels, because you have now in the arsenal of a lot of useful advice!