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Thread Number: 33935
Chlorine bleach... How to use it? |
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| Post# 509919 , Reply# 2 4/7/2011 at 04:41 (4,630 days old) by aquarius8000 () | ||
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hi nrones, The text on the back of the bottle should hold the instructions for use Chris(aquarius8000) | ||
| Post# 509921 , Reply# 3 4/7/2011 at 05:10 (4,630 days old) by Haxisfan (Europe - UK / Italy) | ||
My 'one' experience!
I've never bought this kind of laundry bleach in my life but I used it once after borrowing it from my sister. Like you, I didn't know how to use it, so my mum and my sister guided me letting me add it to a prewash cycle.
I was using an Indesit machine at the time and the prewash would last only 15 minutes at 30 degrees, so I stop the machine for 5 further minutes once it had started the cycle, then it resumed by a few more shuffles, pump out and main wash. The problem I was having at the time was an episode of colour run from a previous wash cycle which had left me with most of my clothes being tinted in red... hence the use of the bleach that really did the trick :-) Good luck! | ||
| Post# 509922 , Reply# 4 4/7/2011 at 05:11 (4,630 days old) by nrones () | ||
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Thanks About the bottle, here people that work in the store stamped declaration for import over instructions, so I can"t see it :( So, deffinatley COLD and SHORT? :) Then I should doo what Candy said in manual? | ||
| Post# 509923 , Reply# 5 4/7/2011 at 05:29 (4,630 days old) by matthewza (Cape Town, South Africa) | ||
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chlorine bleach is horrible stuff. it makes your whites yellow eventually. try rather using Vanish crystal white powder or liquid white liquid or try get Skip Perfect White washing powder. i use the Skip perfect white and works like a bomb! otherwise save the chlorine bleach for the toilet bowl or your tiles | ||
| Post# 509940 , Reply# 6 4/7/2011 at 07:22 (4,630 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
 The reason bleach turns your whites yellow is because it is bleaching out the bluing. Natural cotton fibers are not white they are more yellowish, hence the bleach is returning it to it's natural state. This can be fixed with a little Mrs. Stewarts.
Bleach can also cause yellowing if it is of inferior quality and has alot of impurities floating around remaining in the clothes.
Now don't be affeared, Chlorine is your friend.
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| Post# 510123 , Reply# 7 4/8/2011 at 00:40 (4,629 days old) by matthewza (Cape Town, South Africa) | ||
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i still prefer to use a whitener instead of a bleach. blech also damages the fibres of your clothes. i use a normal stain remover and the Skip Perfect White washing powder in a warm wash and set the machine to do a 30 min soak before washing and my whits vcome out blinding | ||
Post# 510142 , Reply# 8 4/8/2011 at 05:47 (4,629 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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If using a front loading washing machine (H-Axis), then add chlorine bleach (no more than 1/4 I should say) to the first rinse. If you can find make the machine fill with hot water for this rinse, the better, if not then go with the flow. Chlorine bleach does not need to be in contact with textiles longer than five minutes. That is all it takes for stain removal, whitening and disenfection. This will take place faster in hot water, but again long as the rinse cycle lasts about five minutes you should be fine.
Depending upon how many rinses your machine has, after the final rinse restart the washer again and set it to another final rinse. This time add 1/2 cup of white vinegar to counter act any remaining chlorine. If your laundry ever still smells of bleach, it is not rinsed enough and there is still bleach left in your clothing. Chlorine bleach is hard to rinse and cotton in particular tends to hold onto the stuff. If not rinsed properly the bleach residue will cause textile damage. This is the holes and such people refer to as being caused by bleach. Quite honestly if your washer is capable of doing a boil wash, I'd skip the LCB and do that with extra oxygen bleach added. | ||
| Post# 510231 , Reply# 11 4/8/2011 at 13:18 (4,628 days old) by 3beltwesty () | ||
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A few drops of liquid chlorine bleach can be used to make found water drinkable in a disaster. It is what clean mold off of items, its used for many non laundry things. | ||
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Post# 510399 , Reply# 12 4/9/2011 at 08:24 (4,628 days old) by joe_in_philly (Philadelphia, PA, USA) |
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I use 1/3 a cup of bleach to my front load washer's bleach dispenser, and it is dispensed in the first rinse. It is in contact with the load for 4 minutes. It works quickly, and in cold water. When used properly, it whitens and disinfects without damage. In the USA, it is added to the wash cycle in top load washers after about 5 minutes of washing, as it deactivates the enzymes in detergent. Keep in mind a traditional top load washer only washes for about 10 minutes or so. Using bleach in a front loader's longer wash cycle doesn't sound like a good idea. I would suggest adding it to the first rinse, and using the additional rinse setting.
Because bleach deactivates enzymes, it is better to use it after (or at the end) of the wash cycle. If you use it before washing, you need to thoroughly rinse the item, then wash it, which seems like extra work and a waste of time and water to me. | ||
| Post# 510401 , Reply# 13 4/9/2011 at 08:53 (4,628 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
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| Post# 510593 , Reply# 17 4/10/2011 at 08:41 (4,627 days old) by nrones () | ||
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well... I bleeded while I was sleeping, so it just was dry when I woke up.. all other detergents wash that up without a problem, except Excel Gel, which apparently doesn"t... I"m sorry I haven"t took a picture so you can see it :( | ||
| Post# 510600 , Reply# 18 4/10/2011 at 09:18 (4,627 days old) by Haxisfan (Europe - UK / Italy) | ||
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Ariel Excel Gel
I guess it doesn't work so well on certain stains... like blood. These proteinic stains should not be boiled as they set into the fabric... your Candy manual might contain advice on how to remove certain type of stains, if that's the case you should be able to see that any protein based stain should be treated with cold water.
I haven't used Excel gel for a while now but when I did... some time back... I was getting good results everytime... I would only run cold or cool cycles with it. I was always suffering with a nose bleed when I was younger... and still now to a much lesser extent... it's such a nuisance when it happens! I was being told that I needed more vitamin C... but it never really seemed to make any difference... one of those things that ease off with age I guess ;-) | ||
| Post# 510608 , Reply# 20 4/10/2011 at 10:08 (4,627 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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Hydrogen peroxide is used by nurses to remove blood from their uniforms. And it removes it very quickly too! Just pour some on, rub it in and throw in the washer. That's all there is! | ||
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