How to get whites really white?

[Halifaxmum]

I wear white shirts for work and wash them every other day (wear them for 2 days), on a 60 degree wash with non-bio Fairy gel (I have sensitive skin, so don't use bio)

As I work in a supermarket, it's getting really grubby, especially around the arms. where I hold the cardboard boxes.

How do I get my shirt really white? I heard something about Milton - is it worth a try? How would I do it?

TIA x

[tenrec]

I think Milton is just a very diluted form of bleach. I too would like to know the answer to your question.

[welshlibranr]

may be worth a try!......it's mild bleach I think!......

[nungate]

Get yourself some Napisan - you can find it with all the baby stuff in the supermarket and add some to your biological soap powder - keeps my whites white. If you have some sweat stains on the underarms of your shirts try soaking them in some soluble aspirin

[Halifaxmum]

Thanks all! Nun - is Napisan a liquid or tablets?

[missprim]

I use Milton to soak my wiping down cloths in but have never tried clothes.
Do you have an old shirt so you can try it.Just soak it overnight in a bowl of cold water with a capful of Milton then wash as usual the next day.

[Halifaxmum]

missp - the milton at work is tablets - would i do the same with them?

[nungate]

Napisan is a powder - it comes in a smallish blue box with a metal pourer on the side. I've just noticed that you can't use a biological powder I have the same sort of reaction to some bio powders so I use Surcare powder for doing my laundry - everyone's laundry is done with Ariel.

[missprim]

Have never used the tablets but then again I don't actually buy Milton, I buy Supermarkets own brand of sterilising fluid as it does the same job but it's cheaper. I also soak my cups in cold water with a drop of the liquid and it removes tea stains.

[Halifaxmum]

Thanks nun - Surcare - is it still a bio?

[Halifaxmum]

missp - I find the cheapo denture sterilising tablets sort out the cups and mugs :)

if i was going to soak 2 shirts, and I used a supermarket own (Morrisons do "Trust" sterilising solution), would it just be a capful and would I leave it overnight (12 hours)?

I don't want to destroy the shirts, as I think I may have to pay for new ones! lol

[nungate]

Surcare? No it is for sensitive skin so you should be ok with it. Occasionally I buy that Method gel - which isn't exactly cheap, though it smells lovely it may be a bio but so far I haven't had any problems with that
particular laundry gel

[missprim]

That's why I think you should try it with an old shirt first if you have one.

[Halifaxmum]

Thank you both - I will try them both! :)

Merry Christmas x

[missprim]

Merry Christmas Halifaxmum x

[spudqueen]

Make sure you wash whites together, without anything else. That means no white t-shirts with logos or anything else like that. Just whites together. It certainly helps.

(I do a whites wash and a nearly whites wash).

[B00]

I stick whites that are starting to go grey and dingy in a bucket of mild diluted bleach over night. Rinse them out, then wash as normal.

[Halifaxmum]

Boo - how much bleach do you put in the bucket?

[B00]

Dunno, never really use a measure, just a good few squirts i guess, fill with water and dunk the whites in, swirl them round and leave overnight.

[jd_here]

Would have thought working in a supermarket made them very grubby after 1 day, suggest they wouldn't get quite as bad if you changed them every day.