Linen: how to wash, iron and store to better preserve color?

Posted by markwahl barg on December 14th, 2019

When we put the laundry we must take into account two fundamental ideas: use a quality detergent that benefits the state of conservation of our clothes and separate the garments by colors and fabrics.

If you want to prevent your white clothes from turning yellowish over time, follow these practical tips by Commercial laundry service.

The first thing is to put the washing machine. When we proceed to carry out a wash, we must first separate the clothes by colors and fabrics, since there will be more delicate garments than others that should be washed or separately or together with others of similar characteristics.

The always wise, but sometimes wrong, experts state that the best thing to wash white clothes is to use a specialized bleach that we can apply to our washing machine and so that our clothes did not lose the whiteness that characterizes it.

However, this street advice is not practical in the long run, since the use of the bleach washed after washing will give a yellowish color to our white garments. For all this, the most advisable thing is to always use a quality detergent that respects the qualities of our garments.

How to wash and iron clothes?

In general, the colored clothes are washed in cold and warm water so that they do not shrink, while the white ones are washed in hot water and with intensive programs so that they do not lose their natural hue and remain clean and disinfected.

Once the garments are separated and the labels checked, to see the conditions of washing each garment, we must first pre-treat the dirt accumulated in the necks, cuffs, and bottoms of the white clothes.

For this, we can use bleach diluted in water or a cleaner with active oxygen. Many of you will remember how our grandmothers placed a village, full of bleach diluted with water, in full sun, and there they introduced white clothes. Today, a wide range of quality detergents that exists in the market makes domestic life easier.

Another tip by Commercial laundry is to keep in mind is that of not washing the sheets together with the towels, since the fluffs that the latter gives off may adhere to the washing of our sheets and then will be difficult to remove.

It will be better to lay down our white clothes as soon as possible since this will prevent it from taking a musty smell and losing the scent of our quality detergent.