Without a doubt, noble white color should be in every person’s wardrobe. It refreshes and makes the image stylish. And if you have children of school age, then frequent washing of this item of clothing cannot be done without. How to wash a white blouse and return it to its shining linen without damaging the fabric, so that it serves for a long time and pleases the eye? Let’s consider various means of returning clothes and underwear, including “people’s councils”.
Before you begin washing and bleaching, treat the collar, cuffs of the product with any stain remover, as well as stains that may not have been noticed immediately. The Stains and Odors section provides ways to remove the most common and difficult stains, such as grease, greens, and sweat. Coped with this problem? Now you can proceed to direct washing.
Wash white shirts and blouses separately from colored clothes, preferably by hand if the fabric is delicate. It is enough to wash immediately after removal, using powder or gel for washing white clothes. But over time or leaving dirty white linen lying around, you need to use bleaching agents.
Household chemicals
Let’s start with household chemicals for washing and bleaching a white blouse at home:
- Oxygen bleaches are the most popular, as they gently treat delicate fabrics without causing skin reactions. Can be safely used for any type of fabric.
- Chlorine-containing bleaches are easy to wash a white blouse and return it to its former linen, but they cannot be used on delicate fabrics, they are also very aggressive towards the fabric and your skin, often such means should not be used.
- Optical bleaches simply paint the fabric white again, if other methods did not help to cope with the gray blouse, then this tool can be a real salvation.
Handy whitening products
Household chemicals can be conditionally divided into dangerous for fabric and safe, but expensive. If you are not ready to spend, then use the folk councils, which are no less effective and at the same time affordable. How to wash a white blouse with “folk remedies” at home:
- Add hydrogen peroxide to a basin of warm water no more than 40 degrees, 4 tablespoons of peroxide per 2 liters of water. Mix the water and peroxide by hand, soak things for 20 minutes. After this time, wash in the usual way.
- Soda will help restore the whiteness of the product, soak the grayed clothes in a solution of 3 liters of water and 0.5 packs of soda for 30 minutes. Or add 2 tablespoons of soda to the washing powder when washing.
- Dissolve 40 g of boric acid in 4 liters of warm water, soak for 2 hours, then wash off.
- Rub a pre-soaked blouse with 72% household soap, leave to act for 30 minutes, rinse thoroughly.
- Dissolve a few potassium permanganate crystals in water so that not a single grain remains. In a basin with warm water, add washing powder, dissolved potassium permanganate, mix well, soak the product for 10 minutes. Machine wash.
- You can whiten a cotton or linen blouse with denatured alcohol. Soak for 10 minutes in a basin with the addition of a tablespoon of ammonia, then rinse well in water.
- Boiling: water is poured into a large enameled pot, “Laundry” or ammonia is added, white things are boiled for no more than 30 minutes. Rinse well. The method of very effective whitening, but it does not spare fabrics, they quickly become unusable.
On a note
- It is not permissible to wash white clothes with colored linen.
- Follow the recommendations for washing, ironing, and drying indicated on the inside of the product, labels.
- Wash with detergent for white items.
- Before washing, it is better to treat the neck, cuffs and armpit area with a stain remover.