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Recipe Introduction

Ways to make your wash even cleaner. Here are some handy tips to help you

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Stain Removal Guide

1. Sponge stains promptly with cool water to prevent setting.

2. Always test your stain-remover on a hidden part of the garment first to check for colorfastness and bleachability.

3. Before laundering, pre-treat or presoak stained articles with a detergent like all® Free Clear that eliminates both protein and oil-based stains. Remember, washing and drying without pre-treating can set some stains.

4. If pre-treating with a powder detergent, add 1/2 scoop per gallon of water in a bucket or 1-1/2 scoops in your washer and check care label to determine warmest water for your fabric.

5. Air-dry treated and washed items, since some residual stains are not visible when wet and heat from the machine drying may set them.

6. Follow all safety precautions on stain-removal product labels.


MONEY SAVING TIPS

LAUNDRY

Cut your heat and water bills and still enjoy clean, fresh laundry:

Reduce the amount of hot water you use by washing clothes in warm or cold water.
Wash only full loads of laundry and set the water level according to load size.
When drying clothes, hang them outside whenever possible.
Be sure the dryer is vented to the outdoors.
Set the air temperature as low as possible on a tumble dryer, if you have to use one, and keep drying times short.
Try not to overload or under load your dryer or your washer.



Recipe

Laundry tips on how to win the battle against laundry. A simple system that works!
Laundry doesn’t have to be a job filled with dread and boring drudgery. Following some simple steps you can win the war against washables!


First of all, implement a system that is simple and saves time. Delegate some of the steps to family members.


Purchase four or five large plastic clothes hampers. Label them, jeans, whites, darks, towels and delicates. Label them to match your laundry once it’s separated.


Place a clothesbasket in every family member’s bedroom. Have every one be responsible for putting their own dirty laundry into their own clothesbasket. You can color code the baskets for each person too. Suzy gets the pink basket, Tommy gets the blue one, and you can even let the kids pick their own basket color to match their bedroom.



What day of the week is the best day for you to do laundry? Some find that doing one or two loads every day keeps everyone happy, while others find they can only do laundry once per week.


Whichever way works best for you, make sure you set a time that all laundry must be “in”. If someone doesn’t turn in their laundry and sort it into the labeled hampers then they won’t have any clean clothes to wear!


It’s extremely important that everyone understands that on laundry day, they must bring their clothes to the laundry room, and sort their own clothes into each labeled hamper.


Having the clothes already sorted, really saves a lot of time on laundry day.


The best way to launder clothing is by following a few simple rules of thumb.


Never mix whites with darks.

Never wash synthetics with natural fibers. Example: don’t wash polyester with cotton. This causes fabrics to pill.


Never wash heavy fabrics with lightweight fabrics. Example: don’t wash jeans or towels in the same wash with blouses.


Always check labels first. Separate the synthetics from the cottons. If there is a cotton synthetic blend, wash it with the synthetics. For extra whitening on synthetics and synthetic blends, you must use non-chlorine bleach.


Darks and brights should always be washed separately and in cold water. Never bleach dark or bright colors.


Never use bleach on woolens, silk, treated cottons or non-colorfast fabrics.



To wash cotton whites:

Set washer for permanent press, hot wash and cold rinse.


After washer is filled with hot water, add one cup of bleach, and desired amount of detergent. Let the machine agitate for thirty seconds before adding clothes. This will mix the bleach evenly to avoid damaging the fabrics.



To wash jeans: Fill washer with warm water. Add desired detergent, and then add jeans. Never wash more than four pairs of jeans at a time. Too many heavy fabrics in the machine can damage your clothing and your machine. The items will come out cleaner and less wrinkled if they can move freely while being washed.


To wash permanent press shirts:

Turn washer setting to permanent press, warm wash water and cold rinse water. Let washer tub fill before adding detergent and shirts. Unbutton all collars and cuffs before adding to wash. Do not wash anymore than eight shirts at one time.


Once the shirt wash is done, remove each shirt one at a time. Snap the shirt a couple of times then put into the dryer.

Set the dryer setting to Fluff Air No Heat. Let the dryer fluff the shirts for about twenty minutes with a dryer sheet. After fifteen minutes, remove one shirt then turn the dryer back on letting the other shirts continue to tumble while you place the one you removed on a plastic hanger. Continue this process until all the shirts are now on hangers. Let them air dry before hanging in the closet. This process will eliminate the need to iron.


To wash delicates; set your washer to the delicate cycle, cold wash and cold rinse water. Let the washer fill before adding detergent. For better results, delicates should be washed with a special detergent formulated for delicate fabrics such as Woolite.

Once they are laundered, they should be fluffed in the dryer on the air no heat setting for twenty minutes, then hung to air dry. When fluffing delicate garments it’s okay to use a dryer sheet it will help prevent stains and improve the texture.


Laundry combinations: sometimes you have a little bit of this and a little bit of that to wash, but no full loads of one thing.

You can combine the following:

Jeans and towels, as long as the towels are dark in color.

Sheets and underwear, as long as the colors are similar.

Socks and towels, as long as colors are similar.


When all of the laundry is done, a great way to avoid having to fold, sort and put it all away yourself, is to line up everyone’s laundry basket in front of the dryer. As you empty the dryer, sort the clothes by owner into the appropriate baskets. Everyone can be responsible for folding and putting away their own laundry. A good compromise is to fold it for them, but they have to put it away themselves. One person can fold the clothes while another puts them away.


Keeping on top of the laundry war takes diligence and persistence. If one laundry day is skipped, the repercussions can last for weeks. Enlisting the help of all who live in your house is the key to winning the battle. - From Pagewise