Bright whites? How?

[velvetcandy]

Please talk to me about how you keep your white's white especially the children's clothes that are blue and white striped or can be prone to the white fading as the clothing has other darker colours on it. How do you keep these items white and not grey

I do a white wash. We have a whites only laundry basket and so no need to sort washing.

Then for other clothes like white/blue stripes, I use a colour-catcher sheet in the wash. It comes out various shades of grey, blue, pink, all the sort of colours your washing would have been tinged with if I hadn't used up the colour catcher sheet.

we have lots of stripey things here, or rugby shorts with a white collar, I've been using the colour catcher sheets for a month now and some new stuff hasnt discoloured yet. You can see the little sheet come out with colour on it.

I find a good 24 hour soap in napisan works wonders too!

Sorry NewBlue just adding soda crystals isn't upping the green credentials of your wash.

Daz (amongst others) scores low on environmental impact/ingredients. Also Daz (Proctor & Gamble) still use animal testing.

www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/ethical-laundry-detergents/

I use a mix of Bio-D (find it in Oxfam) or Ecover and use their brand whitening powders. Separate whites, light colours, dark colours and darks.

I use my normal (Method) washing liquid but for whites I use a whitening sachet. The GloWhite ones by Dr Beckmann are amazing - I prefer them to any other brand, and I've been asked how I get my whites so white before (yes, it was like being in San advert, and almost made up for my house always looking like a bombsite).

I wash my very pale blue stuff in with my whites at 50c for synthetics and 60c for cotton stuff. I reckon a tiny bit of blue makes the whites even whiter.

Does anyone remember their grannies adding a little blue capsule to white washes back in the 60s? I think it was called a 'dolly blue'.

nightsky I volunteered in Nepal in my youth and the Missionaries of Charity were using a blue rinse in their whites anyway :)

Mediaeval painters painted bright white as blue, I believe. Don't know about your method though - do you see results then? (I don't super separate my wash that much tbh because I cba so I'm definitely not judging)

Separate washes and put whites on the left me to dry if it is sunny.

Found it!

dolly blue!

And you can still buy it :O

Whites are always seperate and I wash with bio powder. I do have some ancient towels which aren't white but can go in the white wash without any danger.

rabbit123 is right. I don't understand why people CBA to separate their washing. I just wash whites with my sheets. I often wear white tops because they suit me, and there is nothing worse than seeing white clothes that have gone a dingy grey. I use Ariel for whites and towels

Amen, rabbit is right, she usually is, you MUST seperate your whites, or else no detergent is going to prevent dingy whites, even if it were powdered diamond.

I am is also right, for white clothing, Ariel "original" washing powder is best, nothing else comes close.

I seperate whites religiously. Only whites,don't add pale colours or stripes etc. I use Persil bio powder & fairy or comfort conditioner. Dry in sunlight on the line so it bleaches natural stains.
I do a lot of washing. I'm a bit anal about it but my whites are very white.

Vanish gets cricket whites sparklingly clean

Nothing, but nothing shifts the yellowy stains around the neckline of my whites . These are caused (I can only imagine) by the moisturiser I use. It must have something out of this world in it because it resists hot washes, stain remover, whitening products....

So frustrating.

Sun drying definitely helps!

Definitely whites with whites only.
60, Aldi powder, bung in some washing soda, glug of bleach. Line dry.