Tag: garments
How to brighten grey clothes: 14p kitchen staple ‘brightens’ white garments
There’s nothing worse than opening the washing machine only to find that a previously white item of clothing has turned grey.
While incorrectly washing white items with dark garments can be a cause, this isn’t always the reason clothes turn grey.
Soap scum can accumulate on laundry leaving an unpleasant grey coating on white items.
Some white fabrics are also coated with optical brighteners which then fade over time leading to grey clothes.
Body oils, sweat, lotions and even fabric
Seriously, What Are You Supposed to Do With Old Clothes?
In February, I ran out of hangers. The occasion was not exactly unforeseen—for at least a year, I had been rearranging the deck chairs on my personal-storage Titanic in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. I loaded two or three tank tops or summer dresses onto a single hanger. I carefully refolded everything in my dresser drawers to max out their capacity. I left the things I wore most frequently on a bedroom chair instead of wedging them into my