How to wash and bleach washed terry towels

If it suddenly turns out that your favorite towel has become hard, lost its brightness or turned gray, there is no need to be upset. Washed terry towels will still serve. Simple methods will help restore their color and fluffiness.

Proper washing is the key to softness and fluffiness

With the advent of washing machines and universal powders into our lives, the rules of washing are forgotten. It is worth remembering them and putting them into practice.

Towels must be washed separately from other items. Terry items, due to their structure, easily absorb dye or dirt from other products. After such washing they lose color and become faded. And if the item was white or a pastel shade, it may become an unpleasant gray color.
Do not put dark towels in the machine together with light ones.
If you can load 5-7 kg of clothes into the machine, you shouldn’t do this when washing towels. It is enough to put 3-4 large baths or 6-7 small ones. Washing requires a large volume of water. If you load the machine to the maximum, you will not get a wash, but the opposite effect. The towels will not wash, but will spin in dirty water.
You need to wash it once a week or more often. The principle is this: the more often towels are used, the more often they need to be changed.
If there is sufficiently strong contamination, the product should be soaked for several hours before washing.
When washed with powder, the softness of terry products is lost and they become prickly. To avoid this, it is better to use powder instead use washing gel. The dose of detergent is two times less than usual. Large amounts of powder or gel are difficult to wash out of terry fabric.
Do not use products containing chlorine. Chlorine destroys the fabric structure and towels will quickly tear.
If the water used is hard, it must be softened. To do this, special tablets or capsules are added to the washing machine. Table vinegar softens water well.
The washing temperature for terry products should be no more than 60°. If the towels are colored, then 40°. This temperature will prevent them from shedding.
Using tennis balls or special balls for down jackets, you can maintain the fluffiness of terry fabric.
You need a lot of water to rinse. It is advisable to turn on the extra rinse function when washing, or rinse the laundry twice.
It is advisable to add conditioner to the rinse water. It gives a pleasant aroma and silky softness to things.
Minimum spin is recommended, no more than 700 rpm.
Do not leave towels in the washing machine drum for a long time. It is better to take them out immediately, shake them well and hang them flat to dry. If laundry stays wet for a long time, it begins to smell unpleasant.
Do not dry terry products on a radiator or in the sun. If you do this, rigidity is guaranteed.
Terry towels do not need to be ironed. They are carefully folded, straightening the folds with your hands. The iron causes the loops to fit tightly to the base of the fabric and the fluffiness is lost.

Is there a chance for a new life?

Washed towels look unpleasant. It looks like they haven't been washed for a long time. This can be fixed, but it will require additional funds. You can use bleach and rinse aids, or you can use home remedies.Every housewife has salt, soda, mustard and vinegar, laundry soap and vegetable oil in her house.

Soaking is an effective method.

It is best to soak overnight, but there are several options for soaking:

about 500 grams of soda ash is diluted in 5 liters of water. Towels are soaked in this solution for 24 hours.
2 tablespoons of dry powdered mustard are diluted in 1 liter of water. The solution is added to a bucket of water and the towels are left to sit for 12 hours.
5 tablespoons of salt are dissolved in 5 liters of cold water. Soak the laundry overnight.
You will need a little less than half a cup of baking soda. Dilute in a bowl of water and soak for several hours.
The laundry soap is grated, 5 tablets of hydrogen peroxide and 1 tablespoon of ammonia are added. When using ammonia, you need to be careful - it is an alkali that can cause burns.
Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons of bleach, and 0.5 cups of powder to a bucket of water. For soaking in this solution, 3 hours is enough.

After this procedure, it is necessary to thoroughly rinse the terry products in a large volume of water.

Wash.

When washing towels that have lost their appearance, you should add baking soda to the powder. It not only softens terry, but also disinfects and removes unpleasant odors.

Boiling.

It is not advisable to boil terry clothes. But if the towels are white, and there is no other way to return them to whiteness, then this method can be used.

For boiling, in addition to the powder, bleach is added to a bucket of water. Only suitable bleach is one that does not lose its properties when boiled. You should carefully read the instructions for the bleach.Boiling time usually takes 50-60 minutes.

Instead of powder, you can add grated laundry soap and 1 tablespoon of silicate glue to a bucket of water. Boil for half an hour is enough.

Rinsing.

To make it softer, it is recommended to add a handful of baking soda to the rinse water.
To add whiteness, it’s worth remembering “grandmother’s” method: drop a little blue into the last rinse water. Instead of blue, you can add purple ink. It is important that the water is slightly blue.

Steaming. The vertical will help lift the terry and restore fluffiness. steamer. After this procedure, you should let the towel dry flat.

Tips for removing stains

Fresh stains can be washed off easily, but old ones will require some tinkering.

a fresh greasy stain can be easily removed by any dishwashing detergent. Apply this product thickly to the area of contamination and leave for 3-4 hours. Then wash as usual and rinse.
Laundry soap is suitable for removing old grease stains. The dirty place is lathered thickly. The towel is rolled up so that the stain is inside. You can put it in a bag. Leave it for a day.
If mold appears on the towel under prolonged exposure to moisture, 9% vinegar will help remove it. Dilute 2 tablespoons of vinegar in three liters of water. Soak the product for 10-15 minutes.

When removing heavily soiled areas, cleansers should be applied only to the stain.

It happens that it is not possible to put the towel in order in one go. The update procedure can be repeated 1-2 times.

If the result is not satisfactory, then most likely the product has expired.It is worth updating the towels and washing them according to the above rules.