Washing rules

Laundry is an integral part of clothing care in any family. Therefore, every housewife must know all the rules of washing, whether it is hand or washing in a washing machine. This article is intended to collect all these rules and structure them to help housewives.

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Training

Before you start to wash things, you need to thoroughly prepare for this process. The safety and duration of wearing things will largely depend on this. Therefore, the preparation also has its own rules.

The basic rules of the preparatory process:

1. Lay out all the things that you are going to wash in 3 categories: white, color and for delicate washing. The third paragraph can also be divided into white and color.
2. What things can be classified as delicate - identify by the label on the product. To quickly figure out the information there, use our character decoding.
3. Choose the washing powder that is right for you. How to choose it will be discussed in more detail below.
4. Determine the temperature at which you will wash each of the above categories. White items are washed in hot water, colored (which can fade) and delicate - in cool, the rest - in warm water.
5. Check out the recommendations on item labels. Make sure that the items are sorted correctly and that the detergent is selected correctly.

Important! Heavily soiled items should be soaked before washing.

The choice of detergent

An important factor in order to comply with the rules of washing, is also a detergent, with which the process of cleaning fabrics is performed. Different powders are designed for different materials. Therefore, before starting the process, it is worth deciding exactly with the detergent that will suit your tissues.

Powders with active additives are suitable for ordinary clothes. In addition to the usual surfactants that remove fat, the powder can contain chemical bleaches and enzymes that remove stubborn stains.

Let us consider in more detail the different types of powders:

1. For white and bedding fabrics, it is better to use powders containing bleaches, such as perocarbonate. Among these powders “Persil Gold”, “Ariel”, “Losk Automaton” and others like that.
2. For colored fabrics, it is best to use powders labeled Color: “Persil Color,” “Losk Color”. Instead of bleaching additives, there are color-protective ones ..
3. For wool and other delicate products, you need to choose a detergent designed specifically for these types of fabrics. For example, suitable laundry detergent Weasel.

Important! Also, washing powders are increasingly replacing their liquid counterparts, which perceive a lower temperature and are quite suitable for hand washing.For an automatic machine, it is worth choosing powders marked “automatic”.

To make it easier for you to decide on this variety, use the information from our ratings:

• Laundry Detergent - Rating.
• Liquid Laundry Detergent.
• Laundry Capsules.

Clothes preparation

In addition to separation and soaking, there are more detailed instructions for preparing clothes for washing:

1. The first step is to check all the pockets so that then you do not inadvertently detect a drip of paint from the ticket or “laundered” money.
2. Spread out all the pleats - cuffs and collars on the shirts.
3. Turn all the trousers and skirts inside out - this will preserve their appearance longer.
4. Button all buttons and zippers. Do the same with ribbons and laces - they need to be tied.But the buttons need to be unfastened on the contrary.
5. Additionally treat stains that are already heavily eaten into clothing.
6. If you doubt that the thing does not fade - this must be checked. To do this: soak a cloth of the same type in warm water and soap, and then rinse in cold water. After 15 minutes, dry such a product with an iron - if it does not fade, it will not shed.

When you are done with the preparations, it is worth starting the process itself. And here, too, have their own washing rules. They can be divided into 2 categories: Rules for hand washing and washing rules in the washing machine.

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Washing machine

No matter how simple this type of cleaning of products may seem, there are rules for it. They must be adhered to without fail. The washing rules for this method are as follows:

1. For thin and delicate fabrics, it is better to use liquid detergents.
2. Wash lace and ruffles in a gentle manner so that the products do not stretch and catch on one another.
3. Synthetic things are processed only with synthetic ones, cotton with cotton, but linen and cotton products are quite compatible.
4. Remove all removable metal accessories from clothes before washing, so as not to damage the drum of the machine.
5. Linen things are still better to wash with your hands.
6. In order to wash clothes from wool in the machine, glycerin and a powder intended for wool items should be added there.
7. For things that are not very dirty and would like to be simply refreshed, use the economy mode - “Quick wash”.
8. Determine the amount of detergent by weight of the laundry, usually the doses are indicated on the package with the detergent.
9. Apply water softener for washing machine, so your equipment will last you longer without breakdowns.

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Handwash

In order to carry out the whole process with your hands, you need to remember the following washing rules:

1. Begin the process by soaking non-shedding things.
2. The order of things: the cleanest things, things are dirtier, etc. At the end, the darkest things are erased.
3. The last item will always be a rinse. Repeat it until the water remains clean and without soap bubbles.
4. Woolen clothes in warm water using laundry soap. You can’t squeeze out such things, put them on a terry towel and leave to dry.
5. Wash silk in water no more than 30 degrees. Squeezing and rubbing such a fabric is not recommended.
6. Process artificial fabrics in warm water and soap. If you use powder, soap is not necessary. Rinsing artificial fabrics is recommended first in warm and only after - in cold water.
7. Thin products should only be washed with liquid detergents.
8. For each type of fabric there should be a detergent designed specifically for it.
9. Work clothes are washed with special means - they have alkaline additives that not only wash, but also disinfect the robe.

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Drying

Even knowing all the rules of washing, things will not be processed efficiently if they are not dried correctly. It is not difficult to do this, given the following recommendations:

• The clothesline must be wiped before hanging.
• If you see that there is not enough space for all the clothes, first hang up large products, and on top smaller ones - socks, underpants, etc.

Important! If you often have to wash things in large quantities and there is not always enough space, perhaps you should consider purchasing a special device. Learn more about:

• Floor clothes dryers.
• Automatic clothes dryers.

• Things must be turned inside out before hanging.
• It is better to dry colored things in the shade so that they do not fade in the sun.
• Sort dry products and carefully stack them on shelves.

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Now that you know all the washing rules, you can clean your items without worrying about damaging them. Use our recommendations and enjoy clean and updated linen, clothes and other things.