Somebody please tell me how i can get the dirt out of dd1's white school socks!

[Beauregard]

please!

i went to morrisons and got a block of household soap. (it's green adn in a pk of 2 so itr will last ages. it gets muck out of dp's white shirts

My mum used to boil ours on the stove in a huge pot!!! They were always white as snow! For all of 5 minutes

Socks are very difficult to keep white. I've tried most things. I just replace them regularly these days.

She has only worn them today and they are black
They were cheap but i can't afford to replace them on a daily basis.
Anyone know where i could buy grey ankle socks instead?

Asda and Wilkinson do grey ones. They seem to be aimed at boys, but my dd wore grey socks one year because she fancied a change and they looked rather nice

You can get long ones too which I found in Woolies iirc.

What about spray vanish, which I find really good and a hot wash. 60'C seems to do the job and as long as cotton wont shrink.

I do my grubby whites in a 60 degree wash with normal powder plus "vanish" stain remover powder (special one for whites) added plus a Glo-white sachet (about £1 for 4). Sometimes blitz grubby bits with pre-wash Vanish spray beforehand as well.

Generally everything comes up dazzling but have no idea what it's doing to the environment...

vanish didn't seem to work here!

My MIL swears by that glo white stuff you get in a packet, i have never tried it but she says it good.

hth

Thanks think i will give the Glo-White a try.