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    1 year ago

    hmmm. anyone have legit tried and true yellowing bedding tricks? His lordship has been an oily oily boy on his pillow protectors.

    Already given them the ol’ oxy soak

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      1 year ago

      This is what bluebag was invented for. Find an IGA (not sure if colesworth stock them) and look in the laundry aisle for ‘laundry blue’ - usually a bag or a block. Might be in the cleaning aisle. You wash item, and add the required amount of blueing to the rinse water. Dry as normal. It’s an optical illusion, but makes the yellow tinge disappear. Might be worth considering if napisan or lookalike doesn’t work.
      Imo this is the only way to get whiter than whites without nasty chemicals.

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      If you haven’t already, try doing the oxy soak using hot water. It makes a huge difference. Also, check that your oxy powder has not expired. There will be a best before date somewhere on the package. The active ingredient degrades over time.

    • bananafungus@aussie.zone
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      Have a look into laundry stripping, I wear a lot of white undershirts and have a lot of light-coloured bedding and once a month (or sometimes more) I laundry strip everything.

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        mm, haven’t given stripping a try. (Usually I don’t need to, 90% of the time the issues it corrects are caused by bad laundry practises). Cheers, I’ll give it a shot.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      Just napisan mate. Put the item in a bucket with water and napisan overnight. Give it a stir with a big stick occasionally. Wash as normal without detergent.

      Another way is to give it a quick scrub with Sards wonder soap and cold water. Chuck it in your machine with the soap still on it.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        napisan is oxy. Gave it a hot soak, then a scrub with the washboard and laundry soap. then another soak, then into the machine with a shitton more oxy and vinegar rinse.

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          Whoa. Usually when you soak you use cold or tepid water, never hot. Hot water can set stains. Once it has soaked it can go in the machine on hot. Good job.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      I used an Asko front loader with a 90C temp setting and pre-soaking. These days I buy coloured sheets as I felt the maintenance for white ones had me wearing through them pretty quickly.