A wardrobe can be really expensive. Defend your investment by looking after your clothes using these tips. You can avoid fading, shrinking, sleeping and even dry cleaning if you correctly look after your clothes.
Vinegar can be your best clothing mate in the laundry room. White vinegar works great on brightening colors, preventing yellowing of fine lace or silk, and removing many stains. Vinegar can even help remove gum, mold and grass stains. Keeping a spray bottle filled halfway with white vinegar and the other half water can be beneficial for pre-treating stains. Add a half cup of vinegar just before the wash cycle to help remove detergent residues from your clothing. It acts like a natural fabric softener, making clothes fluffy and static free.
Nothing is worse than opening to dryer only to find out that your gorgeous new red shirt has stained everything pink. To circumvent the feared color run, wash red items with dark clothing. Wash them in cold water and employ a laundry detergent that asserts something like,’safe for colors’,'color care’, or’inhibits dye transfer’ on the label. Some detergents are even made for dark fabrics and help the dye set in. Use the fragile cycle the first time so that red or dark items are not squeezed tightly against other fabrics.
If a tag says to dry clean only then you probably should follow that recommendation. However if the fabric is safe to steam, you could be ready to avoid dry cleaning till the end of the season when you are ready to store the garment. Put some vodka in a spritz bottle and spray areas that might start to smell. Your body can leave bacteria on your clothing and vodka safely kills the germs that cause the odour. You can let the garment air dry or use a garments steamer to further freshen up the clothing. Steaming causes less damage than ironing and can be used on many fine fabrics.
employ a lint brush to get lint and pet hair off of suits, jackets and shirts. Use an adhesive lint roller if the fabric is more fragile. A lint brush can sometimes make a fabric appear fuzzy, which is superb for certain things, like flannel, but you may need to employ a lint roller for more fragile items.
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