getting whites brighter

shudokan-RN · Mar 26, 2003

I swear by Arm and Hammer with bleach alternative, and for whites I add clorox bleach too. cheap, smells great, and dissolves well. also adding borateem, if your water is hard helps

Hardknox · Mar 26, 2003

I soaked some yellowed vintage tablecloths, quilts, pillowcases and bureau scarves in Oxyclean and they came out looking like new, whiter than white and ALL old stains gone. I was amazed. It actually lived up to the hype!

MelRN13 · Mar 26, 2003

Oxyclean is bad! It uses some sort of optical brighteners that can actually leave spots if cleaned with something else. (I only know this because of my fiance's former occupation in professional carpet cleaning.)

I add Borax to my whites with my regular laundry detergent.

RRMLPN · Mar 26, 2003

living in podunk town , mo i had to use iron out on my uniforms and my other whites, it worked great and you can get it at wally world. I tried oxyclean and couldn't tell that it did much good.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Mar 26, 2003

I guess depending on the minerals in your water, some stuff might not work as well.

For REALLY dingy stuff I found 1 cup of dishwasher powder and 1 cup Clorox for a soak. edited to add I meant the soak is in hot water not just the bleach and electrasol

It really works on 100% cotton. Oxyclean is OK I guess. The Arm and Hammer w/bleach has the same stuff as Oxyclean.

Here we have VERY soft water. Everything works well. My SIL lives near the ocean and has very HARD water and says Oxyclean works wonders. Who knows.

howie122832 · Mar 26, 2003

I use Oxyclean all the time!! I LOVE IT!

majrn · Mar 26, 2003

Try hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains. Use it full strength and spot clean then launder the article of clothing as you normally would.

cactus wren · Mar 26, 2003

Tide with bleach seems to keep my white stuff sparkling....

RNonsense · Mar 26, 2003

Oxyclean in the wash did nothing for me. Oxyclean solution with water, however, is WONDERFUL for getting weird stuff outta carpets...

sjoe · Mar 26, 2003

Send them to the laundry.

obeyacts2 · Mar 26, 2003

When regular detergent wont get stuff clean, I get a small amount of gel automatic dishwashing detergent and apply with a old toothbrush. Scrub the spot with the toothbrush then launder as usual. This has worked when color safe bleach and detergent together did not. Works esp well a food stains and probably poop too. My Dh is forever getting food coffee chocolate etc on the front of his sky blue uniform shirts.

Lauura:)