With these clever tricks, I always achieve stunning results! Stains magically disappear from clothing, leaving them brilliantly white. You’ll be amazed by the outcome! Your white clothes have never been so dazzlingly bright. You can use these tips to remove stains from clothes or to whiten your worn-out white garments that have turned yellow or grey after multiple washes. Alternatively, you can apply them right from the first wash of new clothes, ensuring that your white items will shine as bright as they did on day one.
Laundry itself is quite a tedious and exhausting task that can take up a lot of time. And sometimes, we also need to remove stains or whiten clothes!
The peculiarity of white fabrics is that they accumulate dirt, and old stains are often tough to remove. Additionally, white fabrics tend to yellow or grey over time.
How to restore their whiteness? Solving this task can be particularly challenging if your items are made of thin, delicate fabrics that cannot withstand boiling or aggressive bleaching agents. Commercial bleach alternatives are often quite expensive and not always effective. Moreover, they can be harsh and harmful to both the environment and your health, not to mention their potentially damaging effect on delicate fabrics.
Today, we’ll tell you about five ways to make your white clothes shine, even if they are lace or silk lingerie—they won’t be harmed at all!
Lemon Juice
Lemon juice contains substances that effectively remove stains from sweat or greasy foods. It’s a gentle bleaching agent suitable for lace and silk fabrics that removes stains and enhances the item’s color.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of fresh lemon juice (250 ml)
- 2 liters of water
How to Use:
Boil two liters of water and add fresh lemon juice.
Cool the solution to the recommended temperature for the fabric and soak the item for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, remove the item from the solution, treat the stained areas again with lemon juice, and wash the item in the washing machine on an appropriate fabric setting.
Table Salt
Regular table salt is an excellent clothing bleach. It effectively removes stains from sweat on collars, cuffs, and underarms.
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon of salt (10 g)
- Juice of ½ lemon
How to Use:
Mix the salt and juice of half a lemon until you get a homogeneous paste.
Apply the paste to the stained areas of the clothing.
Leave it on for 30 minutes, then gently brush and wash the item as usual.
White Vinegar
White vinegar is one of the best alternative products for softening water and washing clothes without using household chemicals. Vinegar effectively removes stains from sauces, ink, and sweat. It also neutralizes unpleasant odors in the underarm and collar areas, kills bacteria, and disinfects.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of white vinegar (250 ml)
- 2 liters of hot water
How to Use:
Dilute vinegar in two liters of hot water and soak the clothes in this solution for 8 hours.
After that, wash the clothes in the washing machine using the regular washing setting. To enhance the effect, you can add half a cup of vinegar to the fabric conditioner compartment during the wash.
Borax
This substance is sold in pharmacies or gardening stores. It is a white powder that easily dissolves in water. It’s used in the industry for producing cleaning and disinfecting agents, but it can also be used in its original form.
In this case, it is very interesting because borax deeply penetrates the fabric and effectively removes even old stains.
Ingredients:
- 50 grams of borax powder
- 3 liters of water
How to Use:
When working with this substance, be sure to wear gloves as it can be aggressive to the skin.
Dissolve borax in water and soak the clothes in this solution for 3 hours.
After that, wash the clothes in the washing machine in the normal setting.
Citrus Peels
A decoction made from citrus peels can be used to remove small stains and whiten clothes. It’s also perfect for scenting clothes and is ideal for whitening women’s lingerie!
Citric acid acts as a natural bleach and leaves a pleasant aroma.
Ingredients:
- Peels from 5 lemons, oranges, or mandarins
- 2 liters of water
- 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide (20 ml)
How to Use:
- Put the citrus peels in a pot with water and bring it to a boil. Remove from heat.
- Strain the mixture through a sieve, add hydrogen peroxide to the decoction.
- Soak the clothes in this solution for 2 hours and then wash them in the washing machine as usual.
Don’t wait until your white clothes turn yellow; always use these tricks when doing laundry, and your white items will always be astonishingly white!
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