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How to Use Vinegar in the Laundry Room

Vinegar is a Miracle Laundry Product

By , About.com Guide

 

Inexpensive white distilled vinegar can be used to whiten, brighten, reduce odor, remove mildew and green your laundry by reducing your use of chemicals. Keep a bottle next to your detergent to keep laundry looking its best.

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Fabric Brightener

The acid in white distilled vinegar is so mild that it will not harm fabrics in the laundry; yet is strong enough to dissolve residues (alkalies) left by soaps and detergents. Just adding 1/2 cup vinegar to the final rinse will result in brighter, clearer colors.

Fabric Mildew Remover

Leaving wet towels in a hamper or a load of wet clothing in the laundry washer creates mildew and a moldy smell. To get everything smelling fresh, complete these two steps:

Using hot water, add two cups of white distilled vinegar to the wash cycle and wash the moldy clothes. Then run a normal cycle with detergent.

Fabric Softener

White distilled vinegar acts as a natural fabric softener leaving no residue on laundry. Just add 1/2 cup to the final rinse. This should be used with all fire-retardant children's clothing. Commercial fabric softeners interfere with fire retardant qualities.

Laundry Whitener

The mild acid in vinegar acts as a whitener and brightens dingy clothes in the laundry. To get stained white socks and dingy dishcloths white again, add 1 cup white distilled vinegar to a large pot of water. Heat to boiling and add the articles. Let soak overnight and then launder as usual. This should only be used on 100 percent cotton clothing.

Reduce Lint and Static Cling

Add 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar to the laundry's wash cycle to prevent lint and pet hair from clinging to clothes.

Remove Perspiration Stains and Odor

 

Fill a spray bottle with distilled white vinegar and keep it on hand in the laundry room. To remove perspiration odor and stains on clothing spray the vinegar on underarm and collar areas before tossing them into the washing machine. The vinegar will help to cut through residual deodorant left on clothing and prevent underarm yellowing.

 

Remove Smoke Odor

If your washable clothing reeks of cigarette or cigar smoke odor, add 1/2 cup vinegar to your laundry wash cycle. For nonwashable clothing, fill the bathtub with very hot water and 1 cup white distilled vinegar. Hang the garments above the steaming water and shut the door so the steam can penetrate the fibers.

Remove Soap Residue from Laundry

Adding 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar to laundry's final rinse will remove soap residue that makes black clothes look dull.

Source: About.com

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