washing???

[shabill]

can anyone give me some tips on keeping my whites white

[Mamyalynne]

A very old but reliable product here.

http://www.dr-beckman...ite-clothes-whitener/

[askyourgran]

Wash whites together, and coloured clothes separately. I occasionally put my tea-towels or cotton whites in a bucket with some cold water and domestos/bleach if they look a bit off white. And using a hotter wash helps, but read the labels.

[B00]

If they're pure white, with no other colours in them, like childrens' socks for example, i've been known to soak in a bucket of mild bleach solution overnight before washing as normal.

[B00]

Ahaa! Snap AYG!

[armanimick]

Yep, don't let my wife wash for you :)

[shabill]

i will try that mamyalynne

[ethandron]

use a scoop of vanish oxi action crystal white in every whites wash and they come up absolutely sparkling. if you have some whites which have gone a bit greyish then just keep putting them through an oxi wash and it soon rejuvenates them to their former glory. all in a 30 degree, 30 minute wash, no need for a hot wash. it really is wonderful stuff and i highly recommend it.

[starone]

I've got some 'white' sheets that are a peculiar greyish colour - yes I washed some navy blue socks with them - don't know how they got in there but it has dyed them and I cannot get them back to white whatever I do.

[gina32]

add an aspirin to the wash

[gingejbee]

Always use powder - not liquids or gels- for whites. Powders contain bleaching-agents, the others do not.

[pink-kittens]

no need for special oxy action - a dispersible aspirin does the same job for a fraction of the price

[starone]

Really? I shall get a bottle of them the next time I go to the pharmacy, which now I come to think of it is tomorrow. Every penny counts nowadays and it might even help with my dyed sheets.

[pips1]

I don't know why or how but my whites are always white and, apart from only putting whites together, I don't do anything special or use any particular product!! I do have a Meile machine though and they are good :)

[Caran]

I use colour catcher sheets, they really work on a mixed wash.

[pink-kittens]

Starbuck, I doubt an aspirin will get your once whites white again, sorry. They do help keep whites white though =)
If I find I've dyed things a funny colour I buy a dye that will suit most of those things and dye them permanently

[ethandron]

starbuck, i reckon if you use this oxy white stuff you'll see a marked difference in your poor sheets, it contains sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate which must be a bleaching agent. if i don't have enough whites for a whole wash and occasionally put a white in with an ordinary wash then i can really see a difference. it's not that the colours run, it's simply because they haven't had this oxy stuff added and it takes a couple of oxy washes to get them back to the sparkling white they used to be.
i'm sure the aspirin thing works but i'm happy to keep on with what i use as it's so effective.

[Robinia]

If you hang your washing outside try to put them in the shade, the sun makes whites go yellow. Turn all clothes, white or coloured, inside out to wash & dry.

[rowanwitch]

Try the dye reducer from dylon its designed to strip dye prior to redyeing but it can 'destabilise ' transferred dyes so a normal whitening agent works better

[maggiebee]

Don't know about washing clothes but my late hubby always put his false teeth in a mild bleach solution overnight and always had sparkling white gnashers!