Aarrgghhh! Stored white bedlinen turned yellow

[fishybits]

How, why and what can I do to restore the whiteness of the majority of our bedlinen. The only sets not to have turned a delightful pee colour are the sets never opened from our wedding gift list so assuming it's got to be washing powder related.

I don't think bleach is an option for the whole lot as some are embroidered.

I would start by hanging them out in blazing sunlight as often as possible. (It might fade the embroidery, I suppose, but I suspect whatever you do is going to have some impact on that.)

I think it happens when you store it in an airing cupboard with a hot water tank/immersion heater in it.

I would put it on the hottest wash it can take with twice the normal amount of bio powder, a whitening product eg dylon whitener, and use the extra rinse button if you have it. Dirt needs to be lifted and rinsed away or it will settle back into the sheets and look grubby.

Okay, thanks. I've got some vanish whitening powder so will give that a go as we currently live in the wettest place in the UK and are just about to move to the place with the most cloud cover in the UK unlikely to ever tan again so sunshine is in short supply.

I'm surprisingly upset by something so trivial particularly as I don't know why it's happened so can't prevent it from happening again. There is no way we can afford to replace it all with the linen of the same quality

Might be the result of using bio powder. Wash them again in non- bio.

isn't lemon juice and sunlight the secret?

Milton tablets, then a wash, then dry in the sun. Or Milton, wash, Milton, sun.