Tips For Restoring Whiteness To Clothes

Take note of these tips which will allow you to restore your clothes to their original whiteness and keep them in good condition for longer.

Our natural solutions for bleaching your clothes are not aggressive and we can use them as often as we want to restore the original color to white clothes.

Regardless of the quality of the garment, sometimes they turn yellow for reasons other than the quality in question.

Among these we can find the treatment with which we wash them and other series of factors whose final consequence is the loss of the original color of the white garment.

Take note of these tips that will allow you to restore your clothes to their original whiteness and keep them in good condition for longer.

This is a series of recommendations that will allow the yellowish or grayish color that appears after a few washes not to damage your favorite clothes.

1. Hydrogen peroxide and bicarbonate to restore  whiteness to clothes 

Ingredients

• 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide (250 ml)
• 1/2 cup of baking soda (100 g)

What do we have to do ?

• Mix the two ingredients until you form a paste and apply it with a brush on the places you want to whiten. Then wash the garment normally.
• In case you want to regain the whiteness of the entire garment, you will need to add this solution to two liters of water and let sit for a few hours. Finally, wash the garment as usual in the washing machine.

2. Hydrogen peroxide and ammonia

Ammonia is a powerful cleaner that can help you remove the toughest stains like blood.

When using this product, be sure to use rubber gloves and try to do so in a well-ventilated area.

Ingredients

• 4 drops of ammonia
• 1 tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide (10 ml)
• 2 liters of water (8 cups)

What should you do ?

• If you need to launder the entire garment, you will need to mix the ingredients in a container and let the garment soak for a few hours.
• Then wash it with your usual detergent.

3. Gas for oil stains on clothes

Oil stains, along with blood stains, are the most difficult to remove. To put an end to them you will have to resort to the gas which you will find in the lighters.

What should you do ?

• To get rid of difficult stains you will need to pour gas on the stain and wait for it to evaporate. Repeat the process until the stain is completely gone.
• Finally, wash the garment as usual.

4. Aspirins to whiten clothes

If you want your clothes not to turn yellowish, add three or four aspirin to the drum of your machine.

They will also be of great use in removing yellow stains caused by sweat.

What should you do ?

• In this case the best is to dissolve the aspirin in a little water and apply the mixture to the stain for a few hours, then wash as usual.

5. Sandwich bar to remove makeup from clothes

If there are any annoying spots on white, it is makeup. There is a solution that we all have at hand at home and that is to use sandwich bread to remove this type of stain.

What should you do ?

• Take a piece of sandwich bread and make a ball.
• Press it onto the stains, without spreading them all over the garment, and wash it as usual.

6. Window cleaner against ink stains

If you need to remove ink, felt or marker stains, use a window cleaner.

What should you do ?

• Put a towel under the stain so that the fabric doesn’t get soggy on the other side.
• Then rub the window cleaner on the stain and let it sit for 5 minutes. Finally, wash your clothes as usual.

7. Lemon for bleaching clothes

Lemon can be another great whitener of your clothes.

Ingredients

• 1 glass of water (200 ml)
• The juice of a lemon
• 1 teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide (5 ml)

What should you do ?

• Before putting your white garment in the washing machine, let it soak for about an hour in a basin with a mixture of water, lemon juice and hydrogen peroxide.
• Then wash your clothes as usual. You will quickly see the changes.

8. Boric acid for sweat stains on clothes

Boric acid can be a great ally for stains that appear on white clothes from perspiration.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon of boric acid (10 g)
• Water (as needed)

What should you do ?

• To combat sweat stains, first mix a tablespoon of boric acid with water until it forms a paste.
• Then apply it to the garment, leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes and then wash it as usual.
• Another option is also to mix a tablespoon of boric acid with washing powder and put it in the washing machine to recover the whiteness of the clothes.
• However, do not abuse this option and use it, at most, once every three washes.