Washing Clothes
White clothes often look dingy even though you are using bleach. Take the bleach to the toxic waste dump and switch to hydrogen peroxide or borax. Bleach actually yellows clothes and causes them to look a dingy color. This is especially noticable with white clothes.
Let's first remove the dingy color from white clothes. Add one-half to 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide per regular washer. For top loading machines: Begin filling your washer adding your organic, earth friendly laundry detergent. Add your clothes and allow the washer to finish filling. Turn off the washer and let the clothes soak for 30 minutes then finish washing the load.
For front loading machines, add the peroxide to the liquid soap dispenser and follow the same directions for top loading machines.
Basic laundering 101: Start filling your washer with water (not for front loading machines.) Add your detergent and peroxide then the clothes. The detergent can't clean unless it dissolves.
If you are having problems with your clothing not coming clean one reason could be your detergent. Most powdered detergents contain saw dust as a filler that causes your skin to itch to anme but a few problems caused by sawdust. It is impossible to get clothing clean with sawdust. These detergents also contain phosphorus, which many cities are now banning due to the toxic problems phosphorus causes marine life.
Switch to a certified green detergent that contains no fillers and your laundry day blues will end. Liquid detergents still contain fillers, so they are just as ineffective as powdered detergents.
Fill your washing machine only three-fourths full with clothes. Clothes clean by the agitating action amongst themselves. Crowd them and they can’t come clean. Pre-treat stains with CleanEz diluted 20 parts water to 1 part CleanEz. It's far less expensive than ready to use prewash sprays and is 100 times more effective.
Fabric softeners are expensive and costly to our environment. Switch to food grade distilled white vinegar. It softens clothes and removes detergent so your skin won’t itch. Add one-half cup where you normally put your fabric softener.
Remember heat sets stains. Don't dry clothes unless the stain is gone.