Wear light clothes and gloves when you’re using bleach.
Wearing white or light-colored clothing can help hide any accidental bleach stains. It’s also easier to remove bleach stains from white clothes than colored or dark clothing. Rubber gloves and eye goggles can help protect your skin and eyes from the bleach.
- In addition, make sure other laundry or fabrics are nowhere near the area where you’re using bleach to clean or do laundry to avoid staining.
Make sure all the care labels on your clothes say they’re bleach-safe.
Bleach can help whiten and disinfect clothes and treat spot stains. However, using bleach on non-bleach-safe clothes can lead to staining and can weaken or damage the fabric fibers.
- Try to avoid pouring bleach directly on clothes. Dilute the bleach with water, following the instructions on the product’s label.
- Washing colored clothes with bleach can cause fading or discoloration. When washing colored clothes, only use detergents containing color-safe bleach.
- Sort your laundry by color and fabric type to make sure that white clothes are separate from dark or colored garments.
Warn others in your home when you’re cleaning an area with bleach.
That way, anyone in your household can avoid brushing up against surfaces cleaned with bleach or accidentally knock over bleach cleaning products. This can help prevent bleach stains from the beginning so you won’t have to worry about damage control.
Replace your bleach with a milder laundry alternative.
Standard bleach can be harsh on clothes and cause more bleach stains than milder versions, like Borax or Oxygen bleach. Add the mild bleach directly to warm washer water before adding in the clothes.
- Lemon juice is a natural alternative to bleach. Just apply it directly to any stains before you place your items in the washing machine.
- Try to avoid pouring powdered bleach directly on wet clothes to avoid staining.
Clean your washer once a month to remove any bleach residue.
If you put bleach in your built-in bleach dispenser in your washer, dip a toothbrush in a mixture of dish soap and water and scrub the dispenser. This can remove any excess dirt, grime, and bleach from the area before you start your next load.
- Put your washer on a quick rinse cycle after doing a load with bleach to make sure it’s free from any built-up product.
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Olivia
16 Tháng 10, 2024
