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Thread Number: 74089
/ Tag: Detergents and Additives
Laundry Detergent that gets whites, white? |
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Post# 978694 , Reply# 1 1/17/2018 at 11:17 (2,288 days old) by Lorainfurniture  (Cleveland ) |
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Why not just use bleach? | ||
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Post# 978695 , Reply# 2 1/17/2018 at 11:58 (2,288 days old) by dylanmitchell (Southern California) |
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A wash cycle with distilled white vinegar? You can also put some vinegar in a dishwasher cycle too. And it's the same thing I used to periodically clean my dishwasher of soap residue.
Mild acid you can buy lots of inexpensively at Smart and Final or similar store near you. Just don't buy the "vinegar" from the guy standing in the front of the store... | ||
| Post# 978699 , Reply# 3 1/17/2018 at 12:31 (2,288 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
I would say do a soak of just white laundry with detergent and warm water for a few hours. Spin That out and do a Hot Wash with Rosalie's or Persil with the longest wash cycle. Add some LCB 4 minutes before the end of the Main Hot Wash. then Rinse with Warm first then a Cold Rinse at the end with a 1/2 c of white vinegar.
If that brightens up your whites, then just use Hot water wash cycle after that. This is what works for me. Some STPP would help too. (Sodium TriPolyPhosphate) | ||
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Post# 978724 , Reply# 6 1/17/2018 at 15:57 (2,288 days old) by brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia) |
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Mike, just to check are the whites being washed in Hot water or warm/cold. Whites washed in Lukewarm/Cold will also end up grey regardless of the detergent | ||
| Post# 978725 , Reply# 7 1/17/2018 at 16:02 (2,288 days old) by mike_g (Aberdeen SD) | ||
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brisnat81, I'll need to check with the better half, I don't know about wash temp offhand. | ||
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Post# 978729 , Reply# 8 1/17/2018 at 16:45 (2,288 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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You're going to get a thousand different opinions here, but here's what works for me.
Prewash/soak for at least half an hour with Persil perls...but Powdered Tide with "bleach" (oxygen bleach) also works. Warm or hot water. This is mainly for tough stain removal and may not be needed depending on your circumstances. Then wash in hot water with detergent to which STPP or SHMP and Biz has been added. That eliminates the tattletale gray problem due to mineral deposits. I don't like chlorine bleach personally due to the smell, the need for extra rinses and/or a rinse water additive to counteract it, the danger of unwittingly splashing it on something and ruining it, and the fact that clothes last longer without it. I know bleach fans will object to all these points, but that's my opinion. As I understand it, using chlorine bleach in laundry is virtually unheard of outside North America. It might be good for your washer to use some occasionally, but that's another issue. You can experiment around with different methods, but I'm guessing with hard water adding phosphates is probably what you need. | ||
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Post# 978740 , Reply# 10 1/17/2018 at 17:21 (2,288 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Iron in the water? An important question is how hard is your water? Not only generic hardness but if there's a lot of iron in the water chlorine bleach would be the last thing you would want to use if "whiteness" is the goal. The chlorine reduces the iron into "rust" ions which will yellow and dinge white laundry.
When I lived in Poughkeepsie New York and had chef whites to keep clean and white to please the nazis who ran the Culinary Institute of America, I had to learn how to use oxygen bleach. A little bit of bluing helps also. | ||
| Post# 979020 , Reply# 13 1/19/2018 at 15:02 (2,286 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
Crap | ||
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Post# 979248 , Reply# 14 1/20/2018 at 21:17 (2,285 days old) by lakewebsterkid (Dayton, Ohio) |
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Whites The key is using warm or hot water and a detergent that contains enzymes and oxygen bleach. For instance, Tide powder. This combo is powerful and removes anything that I throw at it. I also add 2T of STPP for a full load of whites with 4T of Tide powder. | ||
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Post# 979269 , Reply# 15 1/21/2018 at 01:07 (2,285 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 Liquid detergents can contribute to graying significantly....and Clorox bleach will NOT remove that gray. Powder Tide with bleach alternative is one of the best. Persil pearls is the other best. Softened water helps...STPP may make a difference, don't know (I have a water softener). Once a year I'll take my T-shirts and white towels that may still get dingy and run them through hot wash with White Out powder...makes a world of difference. A little Mrs. Stewart's Bluing in the rinse water works wonders to keep whites bright. Heck, we used to wash our nursing whites (back when we had to wear white) once a month or so in Cascade dishwasher powder that contained chlorine. It was powerful enough over oils and such that it would remove yellowing around the collar and pit stains. | ||
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