Dealing with your laundry in a perfect way is one of the most concerns of your daily life, this may require many practices. Although many still use the traditional methods, the new technologies and the sophisticated washing machines help to take care and protect your clothing. Here are some secrets you should follow to wash your clothes properly.
1. The ‘care tag’ is more important than it appears
The clothing labels are not stuck into your dress for no reason, they’ve always something to tell you before you decide to clean up your clothes make sure to take a closer look to it, this is will help you treat your item in the right way.
According to Andrew Rhodes, owner of Platinum Dry Cleaners in Naples, Florida 'Every manufacturer specifies the way the item should be clean, for example, if the label mentions using “dry cleaning” you must follow the care tag and do as it is recommended because it’s the only way to guarantee the best cleaning of your item, however ' it’s not the only way to have your clothes cleaned. Indeed, it happens that we use water to clean items that are supposed to be dry cleaned, but for someone who has a great experience in this field he can do it ' Rhodes reveals ‘that most of the garment's tag is not necessarily right’.
According to Andrew Rhodes, owner of Platinum Dry Cleaners in Naples, Florida 'Every manufacturer specifies the way the item should be clean, for example, if the label mentions using “dry cleaning” you must follow the care tag and do as it is recommended because it’s the only way to guarantee the best cleaning of your item, however ' it’s not the only way to have your clothes cleaned. Indeed, it happens that we use water to clean items that are supposed to be dry cleaned, but for someone who has a great experience in this field he can do it ' Rhodes reveals ‘that most of the garment's tag is not necessarily right’.
2. Clean and launder your clothing on a regular basis
You should take care of your clothing each category separately, for example ‘make sure to clean your shirts after one time wear, and suit jacket and pants that are worn twice and sweaters after three time wears’ this is how Rhodes advices to clean your clothes correctly and make sure to protect them and not damage them.
3. Try to not use a lot of detergent
Marketers and advertisers of cleaning products have one concern that’s to earn more and more money, they don’t really care about your items all that matters for them is making you buy their product. Unfortunately wasting your money on detergent is not the solution for your dirty clothes. Rhodes confirms that and says ‘these companies are making you believe that cleaning your clothes depends on their detergent but this will only make them richer. Using a washing machine with plenty of options doesn’t necessarily require too much soap. Also having clean clothes need only to deal with them the way it should be’.
4. Make sure to zip up all the zippers and Velcro
We usually find some of our clothes ruined and damaged due to the teeth of the zippers or Velcro that we put in the laundry, especially if we don’t firmly close them. We can probably end up buying a new sweeter to replace the damaged one. Like Rhodes said ‘Zippers and Velcro are the main cause of the damages of your beautiful and most preferred sweater so avoid this kind of mistakes that can ruin your things’.
5. We use bleach only for stain removal
We usually use bleach when it happens that our cloth is stained accidently, so make sure to put bleach only on the damaged item. But what you don’t really know is that bleach never removes the stain, it only lightens the spot, to make it clearer. Rhodes illustrates ‘imagine that you’re in the disco and you’re taking a sit in a dark place. You easily pick the ones who used bleach on their clothes because the stains are highlighted. We add carefully few droppers of bleach and rinse it out promptly right after. If you think that you probably can’t clear away the stain we recommend you to take it immediately to a professional cleaner if you want to save your item'.
6. Using cold water for laundry is a bad idea
We basically use lukewarm water to do our laundry especially when it comes to dirty items. However some people neglect the effect of water temperature on the efficient way of washing clothes. So when you try to remove a difficult stain try to use warm water. Besides if you want to sanitize your clothes after being ill use hot water this will help you feel better and heal faster.
7. Use tennis balls to fasten your dryer
Wash down your large and heavy items using tennis balls is a pretty nice trick this will get a thorough cleaning of your blanket. As a matter of fact, Rhodes says that ‘using tennis balls in your laundry is a smart practice that you should do when you come to dry large things but make sure to do it when no one is sleeping because the sound of the balls in the dryer can disturb’.
8. Hang-dry the laundry
Don’t ever laugh at your mom when you see her hanging out laundry, actually it’s one of the best traditional rule of thumb to dry your clothing perfectly, and this will prevent your item from shrinkage because according to experts most of the shrinkage happens when you don’t dry your things properly.
9. Some stains probably needs a real expert
Instead of wasting time and physical efforts trying to clean up your dirty and greasy clothing, you should take them to an expert and let him take care of your items and at the end you will be delighted by the stunning results and the colors of your clothes stay beautiful longer. According to Rhodes ‘Most of the solutions that you take for granted are quiet complicated than it appears. On the other side dry cleaners can deal with any kind of stain’.
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