2007-04-17 04:13:00 · 16 answers · asked by nipsy3 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Dilute it. Use about 1/2 cup ad fill the rest of the sink up with water. Too much bleach will eat holes in your clothes or cause them to yellow. good luck!
2007-04-17 05:14:57 · answer #1 · answered by My two cents 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well I don´t believe in using bleach for clothes, as after a time they end up either Yellow stained or turn Grey color. I use the good old fashioned soap bar. soak your white clothes , in cold water , remove and rub the soap on. Leave the clothes with the soap on free from the water, this let´s the soap sink into the clothes. Say about 1/2 or so . then back to the cold water, give a little rub add more soap & pop straight away into the machine on a 40ºc wash , if you don´t have a machine then , give a good rub , rinse. Either of theses way´s , once your clothes have been rinsed hang outside in the sun. The sun will do the rest of the work for you by bleaching your whites the natural way. Oh yes , the answer to your Q is if you put pure bleach on your clothes , they will get burnt with the bleach
2007-04-17 05:04:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never use straight bleach on your clothes unless you like the holy look. Dilute the bleach with water, read the label on the bleach and it should steer you straight. Do you not have a washer? You can soak your clothes in the washer, most washers have a cycle just for this. If not just fill up the washer with water, add clothes, then bleach and set a timer for 20 minutes or so. Put the washer dial on rinse to rinse your clothes out and wash as usual.
2007-04-17 04:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by dino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DILUTE it unless you want the bleach to weaken your fabric and cause holes. Some yrs ago I left one of my favorite white shirts in the laundry basket my nephews came along threw wet towels on top of it and caused it to mildew. I diluted bleach left it in water a few hrs and the mildew was gone and there was no damage to the shirt
I also dilute the bleach when I soak my husbands white socks when he goes out into the field to work with his employees.
2007-04-17 04:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by texas_angel_wattitude 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do not dilute the bleach it will cause the fabric to loose some of its integrity. It causes the fibers to be very week, and brittle, and more prone to breakage. Ruining a good shirt, if you are trying to whiten a white shirt, instead of soaking in bleach try this instead:
Add one cup of Hydrogen Peroxide to a load of whites and wash as normal.
For items already yellowing mix a quarter cup of Cascade in a bucket of hot, hot water soak the garments in the mixture to whiten whites.
Try not to over dry white items. Use a lower temperature setting as the higher settings can yellow whites.
Also, some liquid fabric softeners can cause yellowing in white fabrics if not rinsed out well.
2007-04-17 05:37:20 · answer #5 · answered by fire937rescue 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dilute--1 cup bleach to 1 gallon warm water. If you make it any stronger than that you will weaken the fabric of your clothing.
2007-04-17 16:03:10 · answer #6 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you really really need to dilute the bleach with water. Bleach will tear down the fibers in your clothes, and pure bleach will leave your clothes looking yellowly
2007-04-17 04:21:32 · answer #7 · answered by Kris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diluted with water, because straight bleach can weaken the material, & cause it to rip apart. If you have stains on your whites, use cold water, so as not to set the stains in before the bleach goes to work.
2007-04-17 04:19:24 · answer #8 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dilute it. If not then you will get bleach burn and it will ruin your clothes. Couldn't you just put the clothes in the washing machine and let them sit in there?
2007-04-17 04:19:50 · answer #9 · answered by Fordman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dilute it with water. Bleach can burn the fabrics and they could end up tearing.
2007-04-17 04:18:07 · answer #10 · answered by Hamish 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋