~Turn on washer with HOT water. As it is filling, add bluing and chlorine bleach.
Bluing and chlorine in the wash will counteract each-other!
Both will hinder detergents.
A quick warm to cool prewash of no longer than 5 minutes does WONDERS for cleaning perfomance! Dont forget to drain and spin, THEN go to a soak or main wash!
Yes Jason less detergent as you go. Add phospates to LONG soaks and to the main wash. May not be so crucial on a QUICK prewash unless the stuff is mega-dirty!
And remember bluing just counteracts the yellow (yellow+ blue = white). FAR better to get the yellow out due to its true, root cause....improper laundering and/or insufficient ineffective detergent without phospates,lack of sufficient rinsing.
Bleach simply removes color, disinfects and takes the ultra-violet specturm of light and makes it visible. So it does makes whites LOOK whiter in light that contains an ultra-violet component.
Here is what I do to wash my whites in a front-loader.
(The normal cycle is a wash and 4 rinses).
Prewash in warm with POWDERED detergent and phophates. Drain. Spin. POWDERED DETERGENS ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO LIQUIDS. {Try SEars brand powder. Cheap and unbeatable! Rinses clean!)
Begin normal wash cycle with HOT water and detergent and phosphates.
Add bleach to first rinse (this is done automatically in Frigidaire brand front-loaders via their disensers).
Add cheap supermaket-brand watery pink or yellow softener(in the gallon jug /3.78L) to the scond rinse.
Add white vinegar (ONLY TO MACHINES WITH PLASTIC OR STAINLESS-STEEL TUBS-- NOT PORCELAIN-- to the third rinse. This is a sour rinse with an acid that will neutralize all prior chemmicals to form salt + water. (Acid + base/alkaline => salt + water). This prevents the bleach residues from eating your clothes during and after the washing process.
Leave 4th rinse clear of chemicals.
Reset machihne to "SHORT WASH" [or equivalent] (My Frigidaire fornt-loader).
NO CHEMCIALS for three pure water rinses and a fast spin.
A word to the wise NEVER EVER EVER buy cheap/inexpensive bleach; it will eat your clothes. NAME-BRAND ONLY NOT BRAND "X"
Bluing and chlorine in the wash will counteract each-other!
Both will hinder detergents.
A quick warm to cool prewash of no longer than 5 minutes does WONDERS for cleaning perfomance! Dont forget to drain and spin, THEN go to a soak or main wash!
Yes Jason less detergent as you go. Add phospates to LONG soaks and to the main wash. May not be so crucial on a QUICK prewash unless the stuff is mega-dirty!
And remember bluing just counteracts the yellow (yellow+ blue = white). FAR better to get the yellow out due to its true, root cause....improper laundering and/or insufficient ineffective detergent without phospates,lack of sufficient rinsing.
Bleach simply removes color, disinfects and takes the ultra-violet specturm of light and makes it visible. So it does makes whites LOOK whiter in light that contains an ultra-violet component.
Here is what I do to wash my whites in a front-loader.
(The normal cycle is a wash and 4 rinses).
Prewash in warm with POWDERED detergent and phophates. Drain. Spin. POWDERED DETERGENS ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO LIQUIDS. {Try SEars brand powder. Cheap and unbeatable! Rinses clean!)
Begin normal wash cycle with HOT water and detergent and phosphates.
Add bleach to first rinse (this is done automatically in Frigidaire brand front-loaders via their disensers).
Add cheap supermaket-brand watery pink or yellow softener(in the gallon jug /3.78L) to the scond rinse.
Add white vinegar (ONLY TO MACHINES WITH PLASTIC OR STAINLESS-STEEL TUBS-- NOT PORCELAIN-- to the third rinse. This is a sour rinse with an acid that will neutralize all prior chemmicals to form salt + water. (Acid + base/alkaline => salt + water). This prevents the bleach residues from eating your clothes during and after the washing process.
Leave 4th rinse clear of chemicals.
Reset machihne to "SHORT WASH" [or equivalent] (My Frigidaire fornt-loader).
NO CHEMCIALS for three pure water rinses and a fast spin.
A word to the wise NEVER EVER EVER buy cheap/inexpensive bleach; it will eat your clothes. NAME-BRAND ONLY NOT BRAND "X"
