How to wash white linen

How to wash white linen

White color is universal, it, as well as black color, approaches everything. Only to wash white things, unlike black, it is often very problematic. On white spots and stains are stronger noticeable. White fabric gets grayish or yellowish shade over time that does not add to esthetics things. To try to wash white linen it is possible in different ways.

Instruction

1. First of all consider from what fabric the thing is made. Fine fabrics demand the delicate address therefore wash things from gentle materials in more sparing mode (low water temperatures, weak extraction and other). You can subject things from dense fabrics to stronger influence.

2. Use the special structures developed by producers for washings white linen. Chemical industry releases various bleaching means: special soap, powders, stain removers, bleaches. When choosing any given means pay attention to extent of pollution of linen.

3. Preliminary soaking helps to cope with set of problems. Leave white things at several o'clock in soap solution, the most part of pollution without effort will wash off then. Using powder with blue granules, you watch that they were completely dissolved in water, otherwise on white linen there will be blue dots and spots.

4. If traditional means have not helped, use folk remedies. For example, wet white socks for couple of hours in solution from warm water and 2-3 tablespoons of boric acid. Or on 10 liters of warm water part 2 tablespoons of bleach, 1 glass of laundry detergent and leave in this solution white linen for two and a half hours.

5. At machine wash surely use not only laundry detergent, but also add amplifiers of powder and special structures for bleaching which will refresh color or will give it hardly noticeable bluish shade that will make linen is visually even more white.

6. Boiling of white linen yields good results. If you have decided to boil linen with bleach, remember that things only from rather dense fabric boil. Well linen and cotton fabrics transfer boiling. You watch that on average the ratio of the bleaching solution and linen was 10:1, you boil linen no more than 30 minutes from the moment of water boiling.

7. For removal of spots before washing process the polluted sites special stain removers. Collars and cups of white shirts are recommended to be processed previously special means from spots too.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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