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Thread Number: 72835
/ Tag: Detergents and Additives
Mrs. Stewart's Bluing and Washer Starching |
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Post# 962364 , Reply# 1 10/13/2017 at 20:44 (2,384 days old) by Dermacie  (my forever home (Glenshaw, PA)) |
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I use bluing often , not every week but atleast once a month. Mrs Stewart's bluing. I sometimes put it in the wash water if I don't think I will make for the rinse cycle. I think it has better results in the rinse but it's still noticeable difference in the wash water. I have always wanted to try startchung in the washer but never have BTW.
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Post# 962384 , Reply# 3 10/13/2017 at 22:48 (2,384 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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| Post# 962388 , Reply# 5 10/13/2017 at 23:29 (2,384 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 Closest I've come to starch was when we used starch in paper mache projects during elementary school arts and crafts time.
I got a bottle of bluing a few years ago to play with. I can't say I recall it really making much of a difference with the white sheets I was using it on. But the sheets were washed only a few times each summer, they needed mostly freshening, and were getting fairly good care. | ||
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Post# 962399 , Reply# 6 10/14/2017 at 05:34 (2,384 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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My mom used Mrs. Stewart's bluing for loads of whites, adding it (diluted, of course) to the timed fabric softener dispenser on our 1960 Kenmore Model 80. It was fun to watch the bluing come through the holes in the tub when it was dispensed during the rinse fill.
She used Argo starch (which had to be dissolved in very hot / boiling water) and shaved in a square of Satina, which was supposed to make garments easier to iron following the starching process. She'd do the actual starching in a big aluminum dishpan, then pour starch and garments (generally shirts) into the washer and set the machine to Spin Only. | ||
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Post# 962438 , Reply# 7 10/14/2017 at 09:03 (2,384 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Bluing was also used to color salt gardens grown on a lump of coal. I remember that powdered bluing like La France went into the wash and liquid like Mrs. Stewart's went into the rinse and they said not to use bluing and bleach in the same water because the bleach would, well, bleach out the bluing. | ||
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Post# 962458 , Reply# 8 10/14/2017 at 10:11 (2,384 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 962473 , Reply# 9 10/14/2017 at 11:41 (2,384 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Yup, that's what I said, but it is a 16 minute cycle on the W1986 with not as long a max speed spin to leave starch in the fabrics. | ||
| Post# 962484 , Reply# 11 10/14/2017 at 13:30 (2,384 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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Dumb question...like I ask any other kind...but how long does Mrs. Stewart last when opened? I found my opened bottle that I bought to play with a few years ago last night, and was thinking if I do any whites I'd try it. But if it's turned toxic, I'd as soon pass... (I know liquid laundry detergent and softener can have problems, but I get the sense that the formula with Mrs. Stewart is simpler, and possibly less to go wrong.) | ||
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Post# 962513 , Reply# 12 10/14/2017 at 15:20 (2,383 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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We never used bluing, but my mom would use the Argo powdered starch on certain items, especially curtains and tablecloths. She had a glass jar that it was made up in. Until 1973, we had Westinghouse FL machines - first a '55, then a '64. | ||
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Post# 962527 , Reply# 13 10/14/2017 at 15:53 (2,383 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Mrs. Stewart's Bluing 
Will last ages, same as with other bluing.
People are using liquid, ball, cake, powder or whatever laundry blue that is decades old with no ill effects. What *could* happen in the case of a bottle of liquid bluing not being closed tightly is evaporation of the water content. That would lead to a more concentrated product, and or cause congealing if things went too far. The soils suspended in water (Ultramarine)such as Bluette probably would suffer more from this than the Prussian bluings such as Mrs. Stewart's. | ||
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