How to wash and bleach terry towels at home?

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

We bleach sparingly

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

Of course, you can use expensive store-bought bleaches and stain removers, but kitchen towels themselves are usually inexpensive, and I’d like to save on washing costs. Therefore, housewives are coming up with new methods to whiten towels at home, mixing the most available ingredients.

Old effective method

Our grandmothers always used the easiest way to bleach old terry towels at home: boiling with laundry detergent. Sometimes the powder is replaced with laundry soap mixed with soda ash, the items are boiled for 15–20 minutes, rinsed and dried in the 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. Mix everything and put the laundry in there for half an hour. The result is no stains and noticeable whitening of the fabric.

• With laundry soap and potassium permanganate.

Prepare 2 basins at once, fill halfway with boiling water. In the first three soap on a coarse grater, in the second we pour potassium permanganate until it turns red. Pour the contents of the first basin into the second. The resulting mixture will turn brown. It's hard to believe, but it's the one that can whiten your terry towels! We wait 6 hours, rinse and dry the clothes.

Whiten towels with vegetable oil

Probably the most unusual and effective method for whitening terry towels at home is soaking with vegetable oil. The oil softens old stains, helping to remove 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 heavily and you need to be extremely careful when working with it. Mix everything thoroughly until the powder is completely dissolved, soak the dry laundry overnight. In the morning we wring it out and put it in the washing machine. Minimum effort and great results! Not only fat is washed off, but even tea and coffee.

Advice

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

Soak in cold water

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

Advice

Do not spin towels in the washing machine at high speeds, do not over-dry them in the sun - this will make them hard.

• In salt water.

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

• In laundry soap.

We generously rub wet towels with laundry soap and place them in a plastic bag, squeezing out 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 laundry.

• In dishwashing detergent.

The detergent can remove grease not only from dishes, but also from towels. To remove all grease stains, soaking in the solution for 10 minutes before washing is enough. And if you need to bleach waffle or cotton towels, add a little ammonia to the water.

We hope our tips can help you whiten your favorite but hopelessly damaged items and allow you to finally remove old stains. After all, comfort in a home consists of pleasant little things, such as snow-white tablecloths or fresh fluffy towels.