Everything is washed away: the advice of American housewives will save even hopeless things
'15.12.2018'
Source: The Daily Mail
Strip-washing, a system invented and tested by American housewives, allows you to wash even completely hopeless things that you were about to throw away to their original state. The unusual soak method cleans better than bleach and stain remover combined. What do we do?
Before you throw away the soiled pillowcase or get rid of the greasy sofa, which, in your opinion, cannot be saved, you should try to save them, writes The Daily Mail.
The system of pre-soaking things using a mixture of three ingredients blew up the Internet after one of the American housewives praised the effect achieved after washing, adding a whole series of photos. Subscribers are interested, tried and published their own results.
“I was soaking my 'clean' sheets ... to say I was shocked by the color of the water is to say nothing,” she wrote.
The “before” picture shows a bathtub filled with a strip wash solution consisting of borax (sodium borate) and soda crystals dissolved in water with ordinary washing powder, as well as “after” - a cloudy liquid left after the sheets taken out of the water.
According to fans, the strip wash is designed to return used or worn fabrics to their “factory settings”.
This method removes dirt and biological fluids, such as sweat and bacteria, from a tissue in just a few hours.
The recipe is very simple:
If you want to use a bath, take 1 / 4 glasses of sodium borate (borax), 1 / 4 glasses of soda crystal (washing soda) and 1 / 2 glasses of washing powder (washing powder) of your choice, add water and mix the ingredients until dissolved. After that, type the bath and add the mixture to it.
If you prefer to use big bucket or basin, the mixture of ingredients is the same, but reduce the amount to 2 teaspoons of soda and sodium borate and 4 teaspoons of powder.
After that, put in the bath or bucket the things that you want to get rid of dirt and stains, and leave them to soak.
“Open the hottest water you can, mix and let sit for four hours,” the instructions explain.
The final stage includes the usual washing and drying.
Housewives point out that this process is not something that is required with every wash, as the method potentially wears out some fabrics, and hot water can cause color “shedding”. But on fabrics that are resistant enough for everyday use, a strip wash can really remove stubborn stains, residual bacteria, chemical dyes.
Important! When using this method with colored fabrics, in 7 cases out of 10 the color “fades”, depending on the fabric and how it was dyed.
But some hostesses do not mind this.
“When clothes are colored, they undergo a quick process that includes cleaning before being sent for drying and packaging for the consumer. A strip wash will remove residual dye that has never been removed in the initial process. "
In general, housewives find this system more effective than bleach, emphasize that the method removes stains and makes white linen white. But others warn that you should not abuse strip-washing.
And some, having tried the system, did not even notice the color change of the water.
“I've found that a strip wash doesn't clean better than a regular wash,” said one Facebook user.
