How to wash and bleach terry towels at home?

Sooner or later, any housewife is faced with the problem - how to bleach a terry towel at home? After all, this is the most popular and universal thing in the house. It is necessary both in the bathroom and in the kitchen - and dry the dishes after washing, and remove the pan from the stove, cover the pies and wipe your hands. Towels get dirty very quickly and in the most unscrupulous way, and it’s very difficult to remove stains from them.

Bleach sparingly

Clean, fresh towels - home decoration and the pride of the hostess. Cotton, waffle and terry products have proven themselves best. They withstand the inevitable boiling, frequent washing, ironing, bleaching, absorb moisture well and dry quickly.

Of course, you can use expensive store bleaches and stain removers, but kitchen towels themselves are usually inexpensive, I would like to save on washing. Therefore, housewives come up with new methods bleach towels at homemixing the most affordable ingredients.

Old effective method

Our grandmothers always used the easiest way to whiten old terry towels at home: boiling with a powder for washing clothes. Sometimes the powder is replaced with laundry soap mixed with soda ash, things are boiled for 15-20 minutes, rinsed and dried in fresh air so that the smell of soap and boiling disappears.

• With hydrogen peroxide.

For this method, you will need about 15 liters of boiling water, 4 tbsp. l hydrogen peroxide and 1 tbsp. l ammonia. We mix everything and lower the laundry there for half an hour. The result is no stains and noticeable bleaching of the fabric.

• With laundry soap and potassium permanganate.

We cook immediately 2 basins, fill half with boiling water. In the first three, soap on a coarse grater, in the second we pour potassium permanganate until a red color is obtained. Pour the contents of the first pelvis into the second. The resulting mixture will turn brown. It's hard to believe, but it is she who can whiten your terry towels! We wait 6 hours, rinse and dry the laundry.

Bleach towels with vegetable oil

Probably the most unusual and effective method that allows you to whiten terry towels at home is soaking with vegetable oil. Oil softens old spots, helping to clean them.

Take 15 liters of boiling water:

• two thirds of a glass of washing powder (any);
• 3 tbsp. l bleach (preferably powder);
• 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil (refined);
• 3 tbsp. l vinegar essence.

Some housewives replace vinegar with soda, in which case the solution foams very much and you need to be extremely careful when working with it. Mix everything thoroughly until the powder is completely dissolved, soak dry linen overnight. In the morning we squeeze and send to the washing machine. A minimum of effort and an excellent result! Not only fat is washed, but even tea and coffee.

Tip

First, dissolve the powder and bleach in water, and only then pour the oil. The film that vegetable oil forms on the surface of the water makes dissolution difficult.

Soak in cold water

Not everyone is ready to endure the peculiar smell of boiled linen. In this case, you can use one of the methods that will help to remove stains from towels without heat treatment. Soak terry towels before washing, this will greatly improve the final result.

Tip

Do not squeeze the towels in the washing machine at high speeds, do not dry them in the sun - this makes them stiff.

• In salt water.

Pour salt into a bowl of cold water at the rate of 1 tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water. We leave dirty towels in this solution for a couple of hours, then we wash, as usual.

• In the laundry soap.

Wet towels generously rub with laundry soap and put in a plastic bag, squeezing all the air. After a day, rinse in cool water without powder. This method allows you to remove greasy stains, remove unpleasant odors and yellowness from the laundry.

• In dishwashing detergent.

Detergent can remove grease not only from dishes, but also from towels. To remove all greasy stains, 10 minutes of soaking in the solution before washing is enough. And if you need to bleach waffle or cotton towels, drop a little liquid ammonia into the water.

We hope that our tips will help you whiten your favorite, but hopelessly spoiled things and will finally allow you to remove old spots. After all, the comfort in the house consists of pleasant things, such as snow-white tablecloths or fresh fluffy towels.