How to wash a shirt manually?

The appearance of a modern business man largely depends on his appearance, which begins with a smoothed and fresh shirt. So that the shirt does not lose its appearance for a long time, it should be properly looked after, or rather, it should be washed more often. In general, if you know how to wash your shirt by hand, it is not difficult. And the task is simplified even more if you have an automatic machine at your disposal. However, some elements, such as cuffs and collars, should be given special attention. In this article, you will learn the rules and recommendations for washing shirts.

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General rules

When deciding how to wash shirts, care should be taken and patience. General washing rules tell us the following:

• When washing a new shirt, the first thing you need to do is look at the label that shows the legend for proper washing and drying of this particular product. The main information on the label is the maximum possible temperature for washing water. It will help you to decipher all these notations in a matter of seconds. character table for clothes.
• Shirts should be washed after pre-sorting products by color. Colored shirts are necessarily washed apart from white shirts. Black shirts should also be washed separately. All other colors can be divided into groups: dark and light.
• Before washing the white shirt by hand or in an automatic machine, you must remove the cufflinks, fasten all the buttons and check the pockets for small items (coins, handkerchief, pen, etc.).
• To remove the most contaminated areas and remove stains, before washing them you need to soap or apply detergent and wait a while.

Important! Do not rub the cuffs and shirt collar with either brushes or hands. From your efforts, the fabric may be damaged.

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White shirts

Fans of white things are simply obliged to know how to wash a white shirt in the washing machine and manually. And it’s best to do this daily, so there should be several such shirts. Whatever the housewives say, however, hand wash for white shirts is preferable to a machine wash. Such washing will make it possible to maintain a good appearance of the product longer.

Important! Shirts are usually part of the business image. And in it everything should always be harmonious. So that you don’t have problems with this, read also our other articles about style and clothes:

• How to choose the color of the shirt to the pants?
• How to choose a business-style jacket?
• Which men's shoes are better?
• How to choose a tie for a shirt?
• How to choose socks for trousers and shoes?
• How to determine the size of a men's shirt?

Easy Stain Remover

Start washing white shirts with a search for the most contaminated areas on it. They will need to be washed up first of all. You can bleach problem areas with a solution, for the preparation of which you will need:

• 4 tablespoons of liquid laundry soap.
• 50 ml of hydrogen peroxide.

These components should be mixed well and applied to the cuffs, collar and armpit places. Then wait 40 minutes and wash the product in water with a detergent.

Important! They act more carefully on the fabric gel type powders.

Easy soaking

In order to remove the collar and cuffs of a white shirt, you should soak the product in water with the addition of powder for 2 hours. In general, it is not recommended to leave shirts dirty for a long time - it is better to soak them in warm water as quickly as possible. So the chances that they will remain snow-white are much greater.

We deal with individual spots:

• Many people, especially those working in offices, are interested in how ink can be removed. Such spots are quite problematic and difficult to remove. To remove the stain from a white shirt, you should take ordinary undiluted alcohol and use a cotton swab dipped in it to wipe the contaminated area until the stain is removed.
• Also often a question may arise, how to remove sweat stains. There is also nothing complicated - you can resort to using a high-quality stain remover, for example, Vanish. It should be applied for 40 minutes in certain areas, and then washed manually.

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Machine wash

Washing men's shirts must necessarily be accompanied by preliminary soaking - this procedure will enhance the effect of washing off almost any dirt. Before sending the product to the drum of the machine, make sure that it can be washed in this way. You can find out about this by looking at the shortcut.

Farther:

• Before washing, all shirts should be sorted not only by color, but also by the type of fabric from which they are made. For example, silk and dacron products are generally not recommended to be machine-washed. But linen and cotton shirts can be safely sent together to the washer.

Important! Denim shirts are washed separately from everyone else.

• What is the temperature for washing shirts in a washing machine? The answer to this question is at a temperature of no higher than 30 degrees. The most suitable washing mode - delicate, because in this mode, the rotation speed is reduced during washing, as well as in the spin cycle.

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Removing complex spots

To remove stains from a shirt in a quality manner, you can simply give it to dry cleaning. However, all the time, access to this service will be somewhat unprofitable, and unreasonable, because you can remove the stain at home using improvised means.

The following remedies will help with the task of removing stains of tea or coffee:

• Ammonia mixed with glycerin.
• Hydrogen peroxide with ammonia (the spot is wetted ammonia, and pour salt on top to dry completely, then shake off the salt and treat the place with peroxide).
• Laundry soap and stain removers.

Important! Stains from fats and oils can be removed from the shirt using dishwashing detergents, because they break down fats remarkably. It is enough to soak the stained thing for a couple of hours, and the stain should be removed.

Representatives of the fair sex are faced with the task of how to remove the shirt collar from foundation or lipstick. Such traces may appear on clothing from one awkward movement. Since these contaminants are fatty in nature, then they will help to cope with them:

• Lemon juice and baking soda.
• Dishwashing liquid.
• Ammonia.
• Toothpaste.
• Stain removers.

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Washing colored delicate fabrics

This is not to say that colored shirts are not allowed to be washed in the washing machine, but in this case, the washing of men's shirts should begin with the distribution of the color palette. For example, in no case should you put a yellow shirt in a car with bright red.

To extend the shirt from colored delicate fabric to its original appearance and to prevent wear, you should know these rules:

• Give preference to liquid powders that are designed for washing colored items. The same applies to the selection of rinse and stain removers.
• Before washing, the product must be turned inside out, buttoning all the buttons.
• The washing temperature will depend on the color saturation of the product, but in any case it is undesirable to set the temperature above 30 degrees.
• Spin and drying modes for these things are undesirable.
• If the shirt has a seriously stubborn stain, then before washing it should be treated with a stain remover for delicate and colored fabrics.

Important! For black shirts in hardware stores you can find special powders and rinses, for example, Tide, Persil, Ariel, Losk, Perwoll.

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How to hang washed shirts?

There may be a lot of controversy. In fact, everything will depend on the type of fabric from which the thing is sewn, as well as on how much it wrinkles:

• If the item is of high quality, it can be hung on the balcony on a rope by the collar.
• If the shirt is colored from delicate fabric or white, after washing it is recommended to squeeze it and hang it to dry on its shoulders.
• After the thing has dried, you need to give it a neat appearance. Read more about this in our article. "How to iron shirts?".

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In this article, we tried to consider all questions about how to wash a shirt manually and in a typewriter. It is advisable for every housewife to know these tips in order to please herself and her men with impeccable shirts.