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How to get whites really white?

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Halifaxmum | 22:33 Sat 10th Dec 2011 | Home & Garden
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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?

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I think Milton is just a very diluted form of bleach. I too would like to know the answer to your question.
may be worth a try!......it's mild bleach I think!......
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
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Thanks all! Nun - is Napisan a liquid or tablets?
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.
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missp - the milton at work is tablets - would i do the same with them?
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.
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Thanks nun - Surcare - is it still a bio?
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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
That's why I think you should try it with an old shirt first if you have one.
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Thank you both - I will try them both! :)

Merry Christmas x
Merry Christmas Halifaxmum x
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.

(I do a whites wash and a nearly whites wash).
I stick whites that are starting to go grey and dingy in a bucket of mild diluted bleach over night. Rinse them out, then wash as normal.
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Boo - how much bleach do you put in the bucket?
Dunno, never really use a measure, just a good few squirts i guess, fill with water and dunk the whites in, swirl them round and leave overnight.
Would have thought working in a supermarket made them very grubby after 1 day, suggest they wouldn't get quite as bad if you changed them every day.

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