How to wash white things in a washing machine 🥝 How to remove clothes from gray

Products made of white fabric look undoubtedly beautiful, but have a significant drawback - they are quickly contaminated, and it is quite difficult to remove stains. However, all difficulties are surmountable, and in this article we will tell you how to wash white things in a typewriter and on what program to return them to their original appearance and cleanliness.

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How to wash white things?

There are several ways to care for such products:

• handwash;
• machine washable;
• soak;
• boiling;
• whitening.

On a note! They can be used either individually or combined - for example, soaking with hand wash or boiling - with a machine.

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

There are also rules for washing white things:

• The water in which you are going to wash should be soft. To do this, add 2 tablespoons to it. baking soda. Or use others water softening methods.
• Before washing, it is advisable to soak things in hot water with powder or soap for at least half an hour.
• Use special products - powders or gels such as “Perwoll” for white fabrics.
• Handwash powder should be dissolved in warm water in the proportion: 20g per 10l of water.
• To bleach the fabric, you can use hydrogen peroxide (3 tablespoons per bucket of water) or household chemicals - “Chlorox”, “Ace”, “Vanish”. Follow the link to view a more detailed overview of quality and safety.bleach for linen.
• After washing, white items must be rinsed first in warm water, then in cold.
• Drying is best not in the shade, but in direct sunlight - this helps whitening.

What is the temperature for washing white clothes?

How many degrees do white things wash? There are also recommendations regarding the optimum temperature for washing. It depends on the type of clothing and the material from which things are made. If you machine wash, select the appropriate mode:

• Clothes - dresses, skirts, trousers, shirts made from natural fabrics should be washed at a temperature of 40 degrees, the “Cotton” mode or "Delicate wash".
• Synthetic things in white - 40 degrees, “Synthetics”.
• To wash white linen - underwear or bed linen (cotton and linen) and kitchen towels - choose 60 degrees, “Cotton”, if the pollution is strong - a temperature of 90 degrees or boiling is acceptable.
• Terry towels - 60 degrees, “Cotton”.
• Baby clothes and diapers - temperature 90-95 degrees, the mode “Baby clothes” or boiling.

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How to boil white things?

Boiling is a great way to restore the original whiteness and freshness of things and remove complex impurities. You can use it before or after washing if stains remain on the fabrics. Before you begin this lesson, carefully prepare the necessary equipment and tools for removing stains. So that everything goes at the highest level, the linen shines with cleanliness and most importantly, you do not harm things, it is important to follow some rules:

• To boil in advance, prepare a large enameled container - a bucket or pan with a volume of about 10 liters.
• Use it exclusively for this purpose, it is unacceptable to wash or store food in a container afterwards - this can harm the health of your family.
• Before boiling the laundry, carefully study the labels on the clothes (they indicate the composition of the fabric and the washing temperature) in order to make sure that they can be washed at high temperatures.
• It is recommended to boil only products made from natural fabrics - cotton and linen.
• Soak very contaminated things in warm water with the addition of detergents.
• You can also boil clean things. They are boiled in order to disinfect or restore the original whiteness.
• Pour the selected detergents immediately into cold or slightly warm water, grate the laundry soap first and mix thoroughly.
• Load the laundry in a ready-made solution, but at the very beginning of the procedure. You can not put things in already boiling water, so the spots will not only not be washed away, but will become even more gorged.
• During the boiling process, mix things periodically so that they are cooked evenly.
• After the solution with linen begins to boil, reduce the heat, otherwise the foam will fall out of the bucket and fill the stove.
• Dry the fabrics in the fresh air from the sunny side - and they will get a pleasant aroma.
• All while the linen is boiling, leave the window open - ventilate the room so as not to breathe chemistry.

On a note! Use only enameled utensils. Never boil laundry in aluminum tanks or galvanized buckets. When in contact with detergents containing surfactants, phosphates and acids, the metal reacts chemically and may oxidize, and stubborn stains will appear on your laundry.

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How to boil white clothes?

It would seem such a simple procedure, but there are certain recommendations for 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. Pick up a bucket of warm water.
3. Add grated laundry soap - 1 tbsp. l (20-25g) per 1 liter of water.
4. Sprinkle food or soda ash in the same proportion.
5. Stir well.
6. Put the laundry in the container.
7. Put on fire.
8. Stir things with wooden tongs from time to time.
9. Boil for 1.5 - 2 hours.
10. Turn off and let cool.
11. Transfer to a bowl of warm water or a bath.
12. If necessary, wash off any remaining dirt.
13. Rinse thoroughly in warm, then cold water.
14. Air dry.

On a note! In the same way, you can boil even white or very light jeans. But the processing time needs to be reduced - it should be no more than 1 hour.

Method 2

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

1. Pour 10 liters of cold water into a container.
2. Add 2 tbsp. 3% peroxide.
3. Pour in 2 tbsp. ammonia.
4. Shuffle.
5. Load the laundry.
6. Put on the stove.
7. Boil for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
8. Turn off the fire.
9. When the water has cooled, remove the items.
10. Wash if necessary.
11. Rinse a few times.
12. Dry it.
13. Iron the laundry.

On a note! To achieve the maximum effect, you can combine 2 of the above methods - add peroxide and ammonia to a soap-soda solution.

Method 3

If you need to tidy up contaminated work clothing, we recommend that you proceed as follows:

1. Take 10 liters of water.
2. Add 500 g of grated laundry soap, 300 g of soda ash, 300 g of silicate glue.
3. Constantly stirring the solution, pour in 2 tbsp. kerosene.
4. Put things in a container.
5. Put on fire.
6. Boil for 1-1.5 hours.
7. Turn off, drain, shift things.
8. Prepare the same soapy solution, but without glue and kerosene.
9. Load clothes in it.
10. Boil for 30-60 minutes.
11. Rinse successively in hot and then warm and cold water.
12. Wash if necessary.
13. Air dry.

On a note! This option for cleaning clothes is suitable for white and light items. If you decide to use it for colored items that are not recommended to boil, be prepared for the fact that clothes can shed.

Method 4

To save on the purchase of bleach, use its counterpart, prepared at home:

1. Pour 10 liters of water into a bucket.
2. Add 500 g of bleach and soda ash.
3. Stir the solution thoroughly.
4. Strain through cheesecloth.
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 heat, wait for the solution to cool.
9. Put the laundry in warm water.
10. If necessary, wash.
11. Rinse thoroughly several times - first in warm, then in cold water to wash the remnants of chemicals.
12. Dry on the street, even in windy weather.

On a note! Remember that the products described are toxic, so be careful. Wear gloves and a respirator so as not to inhale vapors. If there is no bleach, you can use the well-known "White". In this case, follow the manufacturer's recommendations and do not exceed the indicated dosage. Baby things should not be handled this way - choose softer products.

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How to boil children's things?

Children's underwear is quite delicate, it wears out quickly and loses color. There are special powders for washing children's clothes, so some mothers do not consider it necessary to boil diapers and clothes for little ones. However, the laundry must be disinfected. The process of boiling should not be ignored, but this applies exclusively to white or very light things - colored ones during fusion fade and fade.

To tidy up and wash your baby clothes or diapers from white fabrics correctly, use the following solutions.

Option 1

1. Pour warm water into an enamel bucket.
2. Take grated baby soap at the rate of - 1 tbsp. for 1 liter of water.
3. Add to water and mix thoroughly.
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, transfer things to a clean bowl.
9. If dirt remains, wash.
10. Rinse in warm and several times in cool water.
11. Air dry.

On a note! If the stains are strong, you can use laundry soap or mild laundry detergent for baby clothes. The use of “Ace” type stain remover is possible only in especially neglected cases, if it was not possible to remove the stain anymore. Remember that this is a household chemical product and it can cause an allergy in a child.

Option 2

1. Put things in the drum of the machine.
2. Select the washing mode - “Baby clothes” (“Baby clothes”), names may vary depending on the model.
3. Set the temperature to 90-95 degrees.
4. In the “Spin” option, select the desired number of revolutions - 800-1000.
5. Pour detergent for baby clothes.
6. Start the car.
7. Wait for the set time.
8. Take out the wash.
9. Dry it.

On a note! Machine wash at high temperature - absolutely identical to the boiling process. But this mode is suitable only for white things.

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How to wash colored things?

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

1. For the first time, it is better to wash any new thing manually, separately from the others. You will be able to see if the clothes are molting and if the water has stained, make it a rule in the future not to mix it when washing with other products made of fabric.
2. Colored clothing must be washed at a temperature not exceeding 40 degrees. For washing towels and bed linen, 60 degrees are allowed, but in no case higher.
3. If you use a washing machine, select the desired mode depending on the type of fabric. This was described in more detail in the article. “How to wash clothes from different fabrics?”.
4. To prevent bright colors from fading, use powders or gels for colored items. Use bleaches only as a last resort, and they should not contain chlorine.

Important! If you missed any washing rules, as a result, you got a whole bunch of faded things, some of which could not be restored, do not rush to send them to household needs. With the help of our ideas and master classes, you can easily transform them. Click on the link "The second life of the faded thing".

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Useful Tips

• Do not let things accumulate - wash immediately as they arrive, in small batches. For example, load bedding into the machine immediately after you change it.
• If spots are found, treat them as quickly as possible, since it will then be much more difficult to deal with pollution.
• For products made of synthetic fabric, it is undesirable to use bleaches with chlorine.
• White cotton items, especially sheets or towels, can be starchy - they will stay clean longer. How to do this - step by step instructions and recipes for preparing the solution, see the article "How to starch things?".
• After washing, it is recommended to iron clothes made from natural fabrics with a hot iron, especially for children's things. To avoid unexpected unpleasant consequences, review the information about how to iron things.
• Never mix white or colored items when washing, unless you want to end up with intricate stains that cannot be removed. The only trick that can save you in such a situation, and then, with not very shedding things is the use of special napkins for washing.

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We hope that our recommendations on how to wash white linen, boil soiled items and tips on caring for different types of white fabrics will help you to always keep these products in perfect cleanliness and order.