Looking for brighter whites or bolder colors? Try Vinegar.
The answer just might be white distilled vinegar. It’s a safe and inexpensive way to boost the power of your detergent. It will also add a little more muscle to your stain remover.
Prevent lint from clinging to clothes by adding 1/2 cup of it to the wash cycle.
Use it in your final rinse to remove soap residue that makes black clothes look dull.
Get stained white socks and dingy dishcloths white again. Add 1 cup white distilled vinegar to a large pot of water. Bring it to a rolling boil and drop in the articles. Let soak overnight.
Some stains on clothing and linens can be soaked out using equal parts milk and white distilled vinegar.
Before washing a mustard stain dab with some.
Attack spaghetti, barbecue, or ketchup stains with a white distilled vinegar and water solution.
Remove perspiration odor and stains on clothing. Use it to remove deodorants, by spraying full-strength white distilled vinegar on underarm and collar areas before tossing them into the washing machine.
Forgot that you left wet laundry in the machine and it now smells moldy? Pour a few cups of white distilled vinegar in the machine and wash the clothes in hot water. Then run a normal cycle with detergent.
Remove smoky odors from clothes. Fill the bathtub with very hot water and 1 cup white distilled vinegar. Hang the garments above the steaming water and shut the door so the steam can penetrate the fibers.
Keep the steam iron clean and in good working order. Get rid of mineral deposits in steam vents and spray nozzles. Fill the water chamber with a solution of equal parts white distilled vinegar and distilled water. Set it in an upright position and let it steam for about 5 minutes. When the iron is cool, rinse the tank with water. Refill and shake water through the vents onto an old cloth. Test before using.
Remove musky smells from cotton clothes. Sprinkle them lightly with some and then pressing them.
Get water and salt stains off shoes and boots. Wipe them down with a solution of equal parts white distilled vinegar and water.
Give patent leather shoes and bags a better shine by wiping them down with some.
Get cleaner laundry! Add about 1/4 cup to the last rinse. The acid in white distilled vinegar is too mild to harm fabrics, yet strong enough to dissolve the alkalies in soaps and detergents. Besides removing soap, it prevents yellowing and acts as a fabric softener and static cling reducer.
Eliminate manufacturing chemicals from new clothes by adding 1/2 cup of it to the water.
Remove soap scum and clean the hoses of your washing machine with it. Periodically run the machine with only a cup of white distilled vinegar in it—nothing else added to the wash cycle.
Bring out bright colors by adding 1/2 cup of it to the rinse cycle.
Fluff up wool or acrylic sweaters (hand- or machine-washed) and rid them of soap smell with 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar in the last rinse water.
Kelchner Cleaners provides dry cleaning, wet-cleaning services, and wedding gown preservation to people around Kutztown, Fleetwood, Topton, and Reading.