Achieving white white laundry

[stan]

Years ago

When I worked in Dry Cleaning
( this was back in the dark ages, when there had to be be a licensed operator in the plant that did the spotting, and while the machine was running)
We used a diluted aqua ammonia for blood, and dirty shirt cuffs ect Air gun and vacuum were used at the spotting board to remove the ammonia before going into the D.C machine, or laundry.

Has anyone used the stuff made by Rit that for brightening whites? It's in the same size box as Rit Dye. I've never stopped to even look at the ingredients ?

Mitch tell us more about the Borax, and L.C.B no no would love to hear a bit more of the chemistry.

 

[whirlcool]

We use Hydrogen Peroxide as well for blood spots. It just bubbles up and when the bubbling stops the stain is gone. I once asked a nurse why they no longer wear white uniforms. She said that they were too much work to keep clean. She said being a nurse is a messy business and she'd get a lot of blood stains on them when she worked in the ER. I asked her how she got the blood off of them. She told me about hydrogen peroxide. Works perfect everytime.

I have a question to ask about whitest whites. All of our bedsheets are white. Every other wash we add chlorine bleach and then a rinse with vinegar and then a final rinse of clean water. The sheets look fine. We have been using All Free & Clear liquid since about March.

This week we bought a box of All Free & Clear powder and did our laundry. The wash water turned a dark gray like the sheets were really dirty. It never did that with the All F&C liquid. Several more sets and some t-shirts did the same thing. Is the All F&C powder stronger than the liquid? We didn't notice any difference in the final outcome.

 

[yogitunes]

you know, thats funny you mention about the All Free n Clear....I was using the liquid washing a load of white towels,,,,,,that came out pink......several hot water washes and bleach did not remove it....

had to get two boxes of Rit Color Remover.....istructions claim to agitate and let soak for at least 30 minutes...the color started comming out in minutes, and then a fresh re-wash with just detergent and 2 rinses...all back to normal....

wonder what caused the discolor of an all white load.???

 

[supersuds]

Allen, as I mentioned in another thread, I got some All Free and Clear recently. I've only used it once, and didn't look at the wash water (partly because of all the suds!) but thought it performed well. It has percarbonate, which the liquid doesn't, so maybe it did bleach something out?

 

[whirlcool]

We never had pink anything with All F&C. Could it be that maybe there is something in your water that the detergent could have brought out? I know Iron makes whites orange.

We use bleach on our sheets biweekly so there shouldn't have been much to bleach out. Unless the All F&C powder is bleaching something out that the bleach didn't?