I wear white shirts for work and wash them every other day (wear them for 2 days), on a 60 degree wash with non-bio Fairy gel (I have sensitive skin, so don't use bio)
As I work in a supermarket, it's getting really grubby, especially around the arms. where I hold the cardboard boxes.
How do I get my shirt really white? I heard something about Milton - is it worth a try? How would I do it?
Get yourself some Napisan - you can find it with all the baby stuff in the supermarket and add some to your biological soap powder - keeps my whites white. If you have some sweat stains on the underarms of your shirts try soaking them in some soluble aspirin
I use Milton to soak my wiping down cloths in but have never tried clothes.
Do you have an old shirt so you can try it.Just soak it overnight in a bowl of cold water with a capful of Milton then wash as usual the next day.
Napisan is a powder - it comes in a smallish blue box with a metal pourer on the side. I've just noticed that you can't use a biological powder I have the same sort of reaction to some bio powders so I use Surcare powder for doing my laundry - everyone's laundry is done with Ariel.
Have never used the tablets but then again I don't actually buy Milton, I buy Supermarkets own brand of sterilising fluid as it does the same job but it's cheaper. I also soak my cups in cold water with a drop of the liquid and it removes tea stains.
missp - I find the cheapo denture sterilising tablets sort out the cups and mugs :)
if i was going to soak 2 shirts, and I used a supermarket own (Morrisons do "Trust" sterilising solution), would it just be a capful and would I leave it overnight (12 hours)?
I don't want to destroy the shirts, as I think I may have to pay for new ones! lol
Surcare? No it is for sensitive skin so you should be ok with it. Occasionally I buy that Method gel - which isn't exactly cheap, though it smells lovely it may be a bio but so far I haven't had any problems with that
particular laundry gel
Make sure you wash whites together, without anything else. That means no white t-shirts with logos or anything else like that. Just whites together. It certainly helps.