How to erase white things

Products from white fabric look, undoubtedly, beautiful, but have a significant drawback - they quickly become dirty, and it's quite difficult to remove stains. However, all difficulties are surmountable, and in this article we will tell you how to wash white things to restore their original appearance and purity.

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How to erase white things correctly?

There are several ways to care for such products:

• hand wash;
• machine wash;
• soaking;
• boiling;
• whitening.

Note! They can be used either separately or combined - for example, soaking with manual washing or boiling - with machine.

How to keep the softness and strength of white things after washing?

There are some rules for washing white things:

• The water in which you are going to be washed must be soft. To do this, add 2 tablespoons to it.baking soda.
• Before washing it is desirable to soak for at least half an hour things in hot water with powder or soap.
• Use special tools - powders or gels such as "Perwoll" for white fabrics.
• Powder for hand washing should be dissolved in warm water in the proportion: 20 g per 10 liters of water.
• You can apply hydrogen peroxide( 3 tablespoons per bucket of water) or household chemicals - "Chlorox", "Ace", "Vanish" - to bleach the fabric.
• After washing, white things must be rinsed first in warm water, then in cold water.
• Drying is best not in the shade, but in direct sunlight - it helps to bleach. At what temperature do I wash white clothes?

  There are also recommendations regarding the optimum temperature for washing. It depends on the type of clothes and material from which things are made. If you are washing in a car, choose the appropriate mode:

  • Clothes - dresses, skirts, pants, shirts made from natural fabrics should be washed at a temperature of 40 degrees, "Cotton" or "Delicate washing"( for linen fabrics).
  • Synthetic things of white color - 40 degrees, "Synthetics".
  • To wash white linen - linen or linen( linen and linen) and kitchen towels - choose 60 degrees, "Cotton", if the dirt is strong - a temperature of 90 degrees or boiling is permissible.
  • Terry towels - 60 degrees, "Cotton".
  • Children's clothing and diapers - the temperature is 90-95 degrees, the mode of "Baby's clothes" or boiling.
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  How to boil white things?

  Boiling is a great way to restore the original whiteness and freshness to things and bring out complex soiling. You can use it before or after washing, if there are stains on the tissues. Before starting this activity, carefully prepare the necessary inventory and means for removing stains. To everything went at the highest level, the laundry shone with purity and most importantly - you did not hurt things, it's important to follow some rules:

  • For boiling in advance, prepare a large enamelled container - a bucket or a pot of about 10 liters.
  • Use it exclusively for the specified purpose, it is inadmissible then to wash or store food in the container - this can damage the health of your family.
  • Before you boil the laundry, carefully examine the labels on the clothes( they indicate the fabric composition and the temperature of washing) in order to make sure that they can be washed at high temperature.
  • Boil recommended only products made from natural fabrics - cotton and flax.
  • Pre-soiled soiled items in warm water with detergents.
  • You can also boil clean things. They are boiled in order to disinfect or restore the original whiteness.
  • Selected detergents immediately poured into cold or slightly warm water, soap the laundry beforehand grate and mix thoroughly.
  • Load the laundry into the ready-made mortar, but at the very beginning of the procedure. You can not put things in already boiling water, so the stains are not only not washed, but become even more stale.
  • In the process of boiling periodically mix things to make them evenly boiled.
  • After the solution with the laundry boils, reduce the fire, otherwise the foam will fall out of the bucket and fill the slab.
  • Dry the fabric in the fresh air from the sunny side - and they will have a pleasant scent.
  • All the time while the laundry is boiling, leave the ventilator open - ventilate the room so as not to breathe chemistry.

  Note! Use only enameled dishes. Do not boil underwear in aluminum tanks or galvanized buckets. Upon contact with detergents containing surfactants, phosphates and acids, the metal reacts chemically and may oxidize, and hard stains may appear on your laundry.

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  How to boil white clothes?

  It would seem so simple procedure, but there are certain recommendations to it, and even several ways.

  Method 1

  1. Prepare a soap-soda solution at the rate of 6 liters per 1 kg of dry laundry:
  2. Put in a bucket of warm water.
  3. Add grated laundry soap - 1 tbsp.l.(20-25g) per 1 liter of water.
  4. Add food or soda ash in the same proportion.
  5. Stir thoroughly.
  6. Put the laundry in the container.
  7. Place on fire.
  8. Mix things from time to time with wooden tongs.
  9. Boil for 1.5 - 2 hours.
  10. Switch off and allow to cool.
  11. Transfer to a bowl with warm water or a bath.
  12. If necessary, wash the remaining dirt.
  13. Rinse thoroughly in warm, then in cold water.
  14. Dry in the fresh air.

  Note! In the same way you can boil even white or very light jeans. But the processing time should be shortened - it should not be more than 1 hour.

  Method 2

  Your reliable helpers will be the usual means that can be found in any medicine cabinet - hydrogen peroxide and ammonia:

  1. Pour 10 liters of cold water into the container.
  2. Add 2 tbsp.3% peroxide.
  3. Pour 2 tbsp.ammonia.
  4. Stir.
  5. Load the laundry.
  6. Place on the stove.
  7. Boil for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  8. Turn off the fire.
  9. When the water cools down, remove the items.
  10. If necessary, wash.
  11. Rinse several times.
  12. Dry it.
  13. Stroke the laundry.

  Note! To achieve maximum effect, you can combine the above two methods - add peroxide and ammonia to the soap-soda solution.

  Method 3

  If you need to clean the contaminated work clothes, we recommend that you proceed as follows:

  1. Take 10 liters of water.
  2. Add 500 g grated soap, 300 g of soda ash, 300 g of silicate glue.
  3. While stirring constantly, pour 2 tbsp.kerosene.
  4. Put the things in the container.
  5. Put on the fire.
  6. Boil for 1-1.5 hours.
  7. Turn off, drain fluid, shift things.
  8. Prepare the same soapy solution, but without glue and kerosene.
  9. Load the clothes into it.
  10. Boil for 30-60 minutes.
  11. Gently rinse with hot water and then in warm and cold water.
  12. If necessary, wash.
  13. Dry in the fresh air.

  Note! This option of cleaning clothes is suitable for white and light things. If you decide to use it for colored products that are not recommended to boil, be prepared for clothing to be shed.

  Method 4

  To save on buying bleach, use its analog prepared at home:

  1. Pour 10 liters of water into a bucket.
  2. Add 500g of bleach and soda ash.
  3. Stir the solution thoroughly.
  4. strain through gauze.
  5. Put the laundry in the mixture.
  6. Boil, stirring, for about 1 hour.
  7. At this time, the room should be well ventilated.
  8. Turn off the fire, wait for the solution to cool.
  9. Transfer the laundry to warm water.
  10. If necessary, wash.
  11. Thoroughly rinse several times - first in a warm, then - in cold water to wash the remnants of chemicals.
  12. Dry on the street, you can even in windy weather.

  Note! Remember that the described products are toxic, therefore observe the precautionary measures. Wear gloves and a respirator so as not to inhale the vapors of the substance. If there is no bleach, you can apply the well-known to many "Whiteness".In this case, follow the manufacturer's recommendations and do not exceed the indicated dosage. Children's things should not be handled in this way - choose a softer means.

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  How to boil children's things?

  Baby underwear is delicate enough, it wears out quickly and loses color. There are special powders for washing children's things, so some moms do not consider it necessary to boil diapers and clothes for little ones. However, the laundry must be disinfected. The boiling process should not be ignored, but it concerns exclusively white or very light things - colored ones will be shed and dull when digested.

  To clean and properly wash baby clothes or diapers from white fabrics, use the following solutions.

  Option 1

  1. Pour warm water into the enameled bucket.
  2. Take grated baby soap at the rate of 1 tbsp.for 1 liter of water.
  3. Add to water and stir well.
  4. Load things: for 6 liters of solution - 1 kg of laundry.
  5. Put on fire.
  6. Boil for 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  7. Turn off the fire.
  8. After cooling, place the items in a clean bowl.
  9. If contamination persists, wash.
  10. Rinse in warm water and several times in cool water.
  11. Dry in the fresh air.

  Note! If the dirt is strong, you can use household soap or a mild detergent for baby clothes. Application stain remover type "Ace" is possible only in particularly neglected cases, if nothing else could wash the stain. Remember that this is a household chemical and it can cause an allergy in a child.

  Option 2

  1. Put the things in the drum machine.
  2. Select the washing mode - "Baby clothes"( "Toddler clothes"), depending on the model names may vary.
  3. Set the temperature to 90-95 degrees.
  4. In the "Spin" option, select the desired number of revolutions - 800-1000.
  5. Add powder detergent for baby clothes.
  6. Start the machine.
  7. Wait until the time is right.
  8. Get out of the laundry.
  9. Dry it.

  Note! Washing in the car at high temperature is absolutely identical to the process of boiling. But this mode is suitable only for white things.

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  How to erase colored things?

  We offer you some general recommendations how to wash products from colored fabric:

  1. Any new thing for the first time is best washed by hand, separately from the rest. You can see if the clothes are shedding and if the water has colored, take it as a rule not to mix it in the future when washing with other fabric products.
  2. Colored clothing should be washed at a temperature of not more than 40 degrees. For washing towels and bed linen is allowed 60 degrees, but in no case higher.
  3. If you use a washing machine, depending on the type of fabric, select the desired mode.
  4. To prevent bright colors from fading, use powders or gels for colored things. Bleaches apply only as a last resort, while they should not contain chlorine.
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  Useful advices

  • Do not allow things to accumulate - erase immediately as they arrive, in small batches. For example, load bed linen in the machine immediately after you have changed it.
  • If you find stains - treat them as quickly as possible, since coping with dirt later will be much more difficult.
  • For products made of synthetic fabric, it is not desirable to use chlorine bleaching agents.
  • White things from cotton, especially sheets or towels, can be gelled - they will stay clean for longer.
  • After washing it is recommended to iron the linen from natural fabrics with a hot iron, especially for children's things.
  • Never mix white things with colored things when washing, if you do not want to end up with intricate stains that can not be removed.

  We hope that our recommendations on how to wash white linen, boil contaminated things and advice on the care of different types of white fabrics, will help you to always keep these products in perfect purity and order.