2006-12-02 10:30:53 · 10 answers · asked by Chrissy 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Other than using your usual detergent and bleach, add Borax. It's a natural laundry booster. You can find it in the detergent section at your local grocery store or Wal-Mart.
You will find it's very inexpensive and believe me it "does the job." You will even notice a difference in your oldest of whites.
Someone mentioned Oxy-Clean, I found Borax works better and less expensive.
2006-12-02 11:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by MsElainious 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never had such good results as I do now that I've got a front-load washer.
I put them in hot water, long cycle, sometimes with a presoak or even an extra stain cycle. Use regular detergent plus Javex 2. Sometimes I do bleach, but not all the time as I find it yellows and destroys the fabric if you use it too often. For tough stains, soak in a bleach solution and then rinse before washing. You can even use an old toothbrush and some stain remover on really bad spots to scrub out the stains .
But mostly, you just need to try and keep the floors cleaner LOL!
2006-12-02 19:39:03 · answer #2 · answered by arvava 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when my boys were little their socks would get grossly gray and my Mom would boil a big pot of water with lemon slices in it and add the socks. They came out so pretty and white, that i hated to let the boys wear them again. It worked though.
2006-12-03 10:25:18 · answer #3 · answered by Bar B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mite be hard. using to much bleach is no good either. they sell black and grey socks which is fine now or white socks with grey on bottom which i prefer best.
2006-12-02 19:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by havingfun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hot water, lots of soap, bleach, and throw in some oxyclean for good measure.
2006-12-02 18:37:49 · answer #5 · answered by CincinnatiDon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I used to have to wear "hospital whites" , I'd soak them in RIT white-wash, then wash them in hot water with bleach.
2006-12-02 19:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by CW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You soak them in hot water with Oxyclean.
2006-12-02 19:22:04 · answer #7 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
soak them in bleach, thats what i do.
2006-12-02 18:33:28 · answer #8 · answered by Aleena 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cascade
2006-12-02 21:36:40 · answer #9 · answered by sb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU COULD TRY USING COLGATE TOOTHPASTE OR CLOROX ( BLEACH)
2006-12-02 18:37:50 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋