Where do you find Bluing/Blueing to make your whites whiter?
What is the brand name and what does it look like?
Powder or is it liquid?
Walmart does not have it, nor my local grocery stores.
2007-09-21 01:40:06 · 2 answers · asked by Mom of 2 great boys 7 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
* Mrs. Stewart's Bluing (MSB) is a brand of fabric bluing agent that whitens fabrics by adding a blue dye, ferric hexacyanoferrate (Prussian blue).
Mrs. Stewart's was founded by Al Stewart, a traveling salesman from Chicago, Illinois who sold the formula to Luther Ford of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the owner of what is claimed to be the first five and dime store west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was first sold in the store in 1883.
In 1986 the company moved from Minneapolis, to the suburb of Bloomington.
** Optical brighteners have replaced bluing which was formerly used to produce the same effect.
Optical brightener, also referred to as fluorescent whitening agent or fluorescent brightening agent, provides optical compensation for the yellow cast in fabric substrates. The blue emitted hides yellow and brown tones, making treated materials appear whiter.
Any good laundry detergent contains Optical brighteners.
You can also use a oxygen based presoaker to whiten whites an brighten colored fabrics.
2007-09-21 02:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try this website
http://sneakykitchen.com/forum/bluing.htm#Seier...Singing%20the%20blues
2007-09-21 01:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by J*Mo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋