White clothes look bright and smart, but it has one obvious drawback - it quickly sheds, losing its whiteness and acquiring a gray-yellow hue. As a result, the snow-white dress that you loved so much, in a month, can become dull and ugly, and no longer please the eye as before. However, knowing how to whiten the faded white things, you can return the clothes to the former gloss and expressive color.
How can bleached white things be whitened?
There are several effective ways that will help restore things to their former whiteness:
- Washing with bleach . To start things are erased in an ordinary way, after which the spots are filled with whiteness, dissolved in cold water. At the end of an hour, the clothes are rinsed in cool water.
- Stain removers . For white clothes it is better to use a tool with the mark "Wait", for color - "Color". Oxygen bleaches will be the priority. Chlorine containing this problem is worse.
- Citric acid and soda . If there is no special stain remover at hand, then mix the following ingredients: one tablespoon of starch, citric acid , soap shavings and half a spoonful of soda. The resulting mixture is spread on faded spots and leave for 10-12 hours. Stretch the thing again.
- Ammonia alcohol . Dilute 15 ml of alcohol in 5 liters of boiling water and for an hour, soak the shed thing in this solution. Then wash it well and rinse it in cold water. The smell, of course, will be unpleasant, but the end result is worth it.
- Aspirin . It will help to remove yellow stains from sweat on light clothes. To do this, you need to crush two aspirin tablets and dissolve the powder in a glass of warm water. With this solution, treat the stains and leave for a couple of hours. In the end, wash clothes with ordinary powder.