How to whiten a white blouse at home?

Each person has their own preferences when choosing the color of clothes. Some people try to have things of restrained tones in their wardrobe, while others, on the contrary, make themselves known in every way, using flashy shades in their clothes. But not a single wardrobe of a stylish fashionista can do without the use of a white blouse. Such clothes allow you to look stylish and elegant both in the office and at any party. A white product requires a careful and accurate attitude, since over time the white color acquires an unpleasant yellow or gray shade. There is a problem when it is necessary to return the original color to the product without damaging the fabric. In this article, we will look at ways to whiten a white blouse at home.

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11 ways to whiten a white blouse at home

With frequent washing, the whiteness of the products is lost, and a cream or yellowish shade of clothing is acquired. This problem is quite fixable. A huge assortment of various products for an independent whitening process is provided to consumers, the use of which helps to instantly return the original white color to clothes. All these bleaches have a very high price. Since each person has a lot of white things in the wardrobe, the bleaching process costs a tidy sum.

Important! In order not to wear the same things, it is enough to have enough clothes to change in the wardrobe. And for this it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of money and time, looking for a suitable model in stores. Browse our simple workshops, where you can easily make perfectly fitting blouses of different models from different materials:

• Sew a knitted blouse.
• DIY guipure blouse.
• One-piece blouse.

Most of the whitening substances are in each of us’s houses, and they cost a penny, and the whitening effect is effective. Using improvised means, you can easily cope with this problem. When the family has children of kindergarten and school age, the issue of bleaching products becomes very relevant.

Important! Be sure to comply with the dosage and for a long time do not soak the product in the prepared solution. Otherwise, you can irreparably ruin the fabric matter.

Method number 1 - boiling

The simplest method is the boiling process. The procedure is very simple:

1. We put white things in enameled dishes.
2. Fill them with water and set on fire. The boiling process is no more than 30 minutes.
3. For an effective result, add a small amount to the container ammonia or the usual “White.” There is a result, but the smell is simply murderous. In addition, blouses quickly deteriorate.

Important! The boiling process is used for an emergency case when a favorite thing has acquired a gray shade, and it urgently needs to be put on, and there are no suitable means in the house for a gentle bleaching procedure. Otherwise - it is worth using other methods.

Method number 2 - hydrogen peroxide

This method is more gentle. How to whiten a white blouse at home with hydrogen peroxide:

1. Pour water into a basin, which has a temperature of about 40 degrees.
2. Add 4 tablespoons of 30% hydrogen peroxide for every 2 liters of liquid.
3. Mix and place in the solution a white blouse for whitening.
4. Leave for 20 minutes, then wash in the usual way.

Important! Depending on what material your item is made from, review the suggested rules and stick to recommendations for washing things from different fabrics.

Method number 3 - salt, vinegar and toothpaste

The next option involves the use of a much larger number of ingredients, but this method is more effective. You need to prepare the most common toothpaste, table salt, baking powder, table vinegar.

Important! The composition of the toothpaste should not contain dyes, flavors or other additives.

In order to bleach a white blouse, you need to perform such actions:

• In the basin we prepare the necessary composition for the bleaching process. To do this, mix the fourth part of a glass of kitchen salt, a half-pack of baking powder, squeeze the entire tube of toothpaste and pour two tablespoons of vinegar.

Important! In the presence of chronic yellow spots, add a small amount of soda ash. By the way, just such a tool is universal for solving various domestic problems. Read more about it in our separate article. "Soda ash - composition, application".

• Pour water into the finished mixture, mix everything well.
• We put white clothes in the basin, forget about it for several hours.
• After a while, wring things, leave to dry.
• When the clothes are dry, they need to be washed in an automatic machine as usual.

Method number 4 - potassium permanganate

The use of potassium permanganate helps to return the original color to the product:

1. In a bowl of water, you need to prepare a weak solution by adding a small amount of washing powder.
2. Soak bleach for 10 minutes.
3. After this time, the white blouse must be sent to the machine.

Method number 5 - ammonia

Items made of natural cotton or linen can be bleached using ammonia:

1. In a bowl of water, add 1 tablespoon of ammonia.
2. Soak the graying things for ten minutes.
3. Then we perform the rinse and send the clothes to dry.

Important! Linen and cotton are special fabrics in terms of drying and ironing. To make it easier for you to cope with putting things from these materials in order, use the information from our articles:

• How to iron flax?
• How to configure the ironing mode?

Method No. 6 - salt solution

Synthetic-based products can be bleached in a salt solution. How to bleach a white blouse from synthetics at home using saline:

1. Two tablespoons of salt are dissolved in 1 liter of warm water.
2. Stir well, soak blouses for 20 minutes.
3. After this, the clothes must be thoroughly rinsed.

Method number 7 - salt and hydrogen peroxide

You can try updating the slightly grayish white products with a mixture of table salt and hydrogen peroxide:

1. In a bowl of water, stir 4 tablespoons of sodium chloride and 4 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide, 1 tablespoon of ammonia and a small amount of washing powder.
2. Thoroughly stirring this composition, soak the washed white products in it for 15 minutes.
3. Further things must be thoroughly rinsed and dried.

Important! If you often or from time to time find interesting things in Eurodezhda, Second-hand stores, then these two available improvised tools will help you get rid of the specific smell of clothing. See our publication for even more ways to solve this problem. "How to remove the smell from second-hand clothes?". 

Method number 8 - laundry soap

You can use ordinary household soap to whiten a white blouse at home:

1. Laundry soaps need to rub yellowed spots and the entire blouse.
2. After that, leave the product for 30 minutes.
3. After half an hour, rinse thoroughly several times, leave the blouse to dry.

Important! Laundry soap is constantly popular among housewives. What is the secret of its effectiveness at such a low price, read the article “What is laundry soap made of?”.

Method number 9 - boric acid

Boric acid perfectly copes with the bleaching process:

1. In 2 liters of hot water, dissolve 2 tablespoons of boric acid and mix well.
2. In this solution, soak the blouse for 2 hours.
3. After this, things must be well rinsed and dried.

Method number 10 - baking soda

The easiest way to whiten is to use baking soda. A few spoons of this product are added to the washing powder and perfectly white products are obtained during the washing process.

Important! With a sufficiently severe contamination, graying things can be pre-soaked in a solution of baking soda, then rinse and dry clothes.

Method 11 - milk powder

Very often, a method using milk powder is used. How to bleach a chiffon blouse at home using this tool:

1. A glass of powdered milk is dissolved in warm water.
2. In this solution we put a white blouse, leave for a while.
3. After that, we carefully wash it in soapy water, rinse it and send it to dry.

Important! This method is often used to obtain a snow-white collar.

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How to prevent color change?

It is preferable not to allow a situation where the products acquire a grayish or yellowish tint, than subsequently solve the problem of bleaching the blouse. Unfortunately, not always our careful attitude to clothing can prevent a change in the whiteness of the product. Poor water, the state of the environment in the area, the use of fake deodorants, and a number of other adverse factors can affect the color of clothes.

There are several recommendations that can help prevent color changes:

• Purchase and put on the water supply high-quality filtering device, which during the washing process is able to protect things from various impurities in the water.
• In the washing process, it is necessary to use only a special, high-quality detergent.
• White products are recommended to be washed separately from other clothes.
• If, before washing white things, the automatic machine washed black or colored clothes, then first you need to start idling with a bleaching agent.
• You can not store white shirts, blouses, t-shirts and shirts for a long time in a dark room without the presence of fresh air.
• You can soak in cold water before washing white things. Sometimes such an additional procedure helps preserve the whiteness of products.
• After acquiring white items, it is necessary to carefully study the labels on the products and follow the care recommendations without fail.

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Get rid of specific stains

Before bleaching white products, it is necessary to carefully inspect clothing for stains. First of all, you need to eliminate the contaminated place, only after that you can start bleaching and washing the product.

• How to whiten school blouses at home? Very often, in school-age children, there are stains from a ballpoint pen on white clothing. We treat the contaminated area with a usual cologne, then rinse the product using laundry soap. If the stain has not disappeared the first time, you can reuse this procedure.
• Chocolate stains can be removed if you apply a mixture that is prepared by diluting 1 tablespoon of flour and half a glass of liquid soap in boiling water. Soak a white product in this solution for 30 minutes, then rinse with cool water.

Important! If the fabric material is afraid of hot water, then this method is undesirable.

• The use of salt helps to cope with fresh stains from wine and fruits. Sprinkle salt onto a contaminated area. Then wash the product in cool water with soap. To eliminate such contamination, you can also use a mixture consisting of 1 teaspoon of ammonia and 1 teaspoon of baking soda, which must be dissolved in a glass of water.
• With old wine stains, you can treat the contaminated place for 12 hours with curd whey or soak the product in boiling milk. After this procedure, the clothes must be rinsed in cold water.
• The white shade of things will help to return the recipe of the mixture, which includes 10 teaspoons of perhydrol, 6-7 drops of ammonia solution and a glass of water. Stir everything, treat the stain with this mixture, then wipe with a dry towel and wash the blouse.
• Oily stains can be eliminated worst of all. A contaminated stain on a white product is treated with a swab that is dipped in a prepared solution of 2 tablespoons of boiled water and 1 tablespoon of ammonia. After that, the product is washed in warm soapy water.
• If the blouse is made of silk material, then a hot ironing procedure is used to remove the oily stain. At the same time, a stain is laid on the inside and outside of the parchment. Grease stains on a product with a cotton base can also be eliminated with an iron, only the stain needs to be pre-treated with turpentine and laid in the same way with parchment paper.

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Modern bleach

How to quickly whiten a blouse at home? In addition to folk remedies, special bleaches can also help in this matter. Today, the market presents a huge variety of these tools.

Important! Giving preference to the use of the most modern technologies, you need to pay close attention to the marking of the whitening products that you intend to purchase.

Chlorine bleaches

Bleaches that contain chlorine are the most aggressive in the process of exposure to fabric material. However, this method of whitening is the most effective and efficient.

Important! For clothes made of elegant silk or chiffon fabric, this bleaching method is not suitable, since these fabrics do not withstand the load and in this case it is better not to use chlorine-containing products. The constant use of aggressive bleaching agents with the presence of chlorine even in bed linen destroys the structure of the fabric.

Bright representatives of chlorine-containing class bleaches include such products as Domestos, Chlorin, Ac, and the well-known Whiteness.

With frequent use of such funds at home, you must adhere to the following recommendations:

• It is necessary to make sure that there are no extraneous things nearby. If insignificant drops of “White” accidentally fall on clothes, then a faded spot will instantly remain.
• Rubber gloves must be used to protect the skin from irritation and damage.
• A white blouse based on natural materials is subjected to a bleaching process for no more than 20 minutes. To do this, add 2 tablespoons of “Whiteness” to warm water and place a white product in this solution. It is necessary to periodically stir the color-changing clothes. After bleaching, it is necessary to rinse the white blouse several times in cold water.

Oxygen-containing bleaches

What else can bleach a blouse? Currently, oxygen-containing bleaches are very popular. Such whitening products do not cause skin allergies, do not spoil the fabric matter. When using “Vanisha”, “Persoli”, “Swan”, “White without chlorine”, the lost color returns to white clothes.

Important! The use of oxygen-containing products is possible in warm water.In addition, they are used not only for white products, but also for colored clothes.

Optical brighteners

There are also optical brighteners. In fact, they do not eliminate stains, but “sprinkle” the product with bleach grains, which create a visual effect of clarification.

Important! In different countries, optical brighteners have a different name. So, in Russia, optical products are known as “belfors”, in Germany the name “host suites” is used for such products, in Poland they are called “heliophores”, and in the UK such bleaches are called “blank phoras”.

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Thanks to modern and years-proven whitening methods, white clothes can be worn constantly without worrying about the changed color of the product.