How to effectively and quickly whiten tulle at home
Tulle is an adornment of our windows, once it gives comfort to the whole atmosphere in the apartment. Therefore, every housewife should know how to whiten tulle at home so that it looks rich and aesthetic for as long as possible.
There is an opinion that it is impossible to bleach tulle, I am ready to argue with this and in the article I give recipes that have already been tested by housewives. When bleaching, it is advisable to know the composition of your curtain in order to find the right recipe. Each method has its pros and cons, everyone chooses the most convenient for himself.
Salt is often used to bleach curtains, and it also gives them stiffness and sheen to the curtain.
When you have already soaked and washed the tulle a couple of times, then we make a solution: for 4 tablespoons of salt with washing powder for four liters of warm water. Let it soak for a couple of hours.
Advantages and disadvantages:
- Availability,
- economy,
- environmental friendliness,
- Completely safe for delicate fabrics
- Does not damage the structure of the fabric,
- Salt may not take the boiled yellowness if the curtain has hung for a year (situations are different).
But with the functions of maintaining whiteness when washed three or four times a year, salt will do a great job.
Soda
Baking soda is a multifunctional tool, and is used not only in bleaching curtains and things, but also when cleaning products from and.
Pour water into a bucket, it can be a little hotter (not boiling water!) And pour half a pack of soda. We soak tulle in it and leave it for a long rock. If there is a strong yellowness on the curtains, then you can leave it for a day.
Advantages of the method:
- Soda softens the water and prevents soap flakes from settling on the fabric.
- Affordable price.
- The scale of distribution.
- Environmental friendliness of materials.
- No side effects.
- Completely safe for fabrics.
Green and blue whitening
Before the whitening procedure, you need to soak the curtain in warm water for a couple of hours. When the soak time is up, drain the dirty water and pour hot new water, add powder and start washing.
If you are convinced that the tulle is free of dirt, then proceed to bleaching. To do this, pour warm water into a basin, add three tablespoons of salt and two to three drops of brilliant green and stir thoroughly.
Salt gives the tulle fibers elasticity, and brilliant green removes yellowness.
We leave the curtains in this composition for a couple of minutes, not forgetting to constantly turn them over.
We begin to prepare the solution: we dilute a couple of drops of a solution of brilliant green (brilliant green) or blue in a small container with water. If a precipitate appears, the solution can be filtered. Place the prepared solution in water for rinsing.
Advantages and disadvantages:
- Zelenka or blue perfectly refresh the curtain and set off its whiteness.
- Zelenka is in every apartment.
- If you overdo it, it will be impossible to return the tulle to its former white color.
- It is difficult to find blue in stores.
How to bleach with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia
Ammonia is great for bleaching. Many people treat him with caution, but in vain. It does not harm or damage delicate items.
Pour a jar of ammonia into a bowl of warm water and add washing powder. In the basin you need to hold the curtain for several hours. After bleaching, rinse the tulle thoroughly in several waters.
Or another way: for 10 liters of water you need to take 50 ml of peroxide and 20 ml of ammonia.
First of all, you need to rinse the dust out of the tulle, and then make a solution and immerse the curtain there for half an hour. The tulle must be completely covered with water so that yellow streaks do not occur.
The smell will be unpleasant, but the result will appear.
Use gloves.
Advantages and disadvantages:
- Gives a visible whitening effect;
- Harmless to thin and delicate materials;
- Bad smell;
- Potential to burn skin if not wearing gloves
We bleach tulle from dullness and yellowness
If you see that there is strong contamination on the tulle, then they can be rubbed with laundry soap at the time of soaking.
I don’t force tulle to boil, but grandmothers used this method.
Salt and powder
We begin to boil tulle in water, where we pour a couple of tablespoons of table salt and 150 grams of powder (you can grate laundry soap). The amount of boiling boil depends on the degree of yellowness of the tulle. It is important that the water does not boil, and the fabric is completely immersed in it. After a couple of hours, the fabric will become snow-white.
But! This method can only be used if your curtain is made of natural materials. Synthetic (kapron) curtains cannot be boiled! From this, it will become gray forever, and even be like an unironed lump.
Starch
Starch will help to cope with yellowness. In addition, it also covers the fibers of the fabric with a film that prevents dust and grease from penetrating into the fabric. Because of what, the tulle is easily washed off in the next wash and retains its former freshness.
Dissolve a tablespoon of salt and starch per liter of warm water. After soaking in a starch solution, the fabric is protected from the accumulation of dirt and dust.
The starch will help the curtain wrinkle less when squeezed and refresh the fabric, as they say, to a crunch.
Pros:
- Tulle keeps its shape
- Availability of funds
From a hot iron, the fabric loses color, it is better to steam it or dry it naturally.
Secrets of whitening nylon tulle
You can often see that synthetic fabric is mixed with natural (cotton) and hydrogen peroxide, which is an ingredient in many detergents and bleaches such as Vanish, bleaches it perfectly.
Therefore, kapron, being a synthetic fabric, will acquire boiling whiteness in solutions using hydrogen peroxide.
So in warm water we dilute 1 tablespoon of peroxide per half liter of liquid. Soak for two or three hours. And rinse well in several waters.
An effective way to bleach organza tulle at home
Organza, with its unpretentiousness, has won the love of housewives all over the world, but sometimes it requires more careful care, because. with improper care, it turns gray easily.
Organza is perfectly erased both by hand and by machine.
saline solution
Before washing, the curtain can be soaked in a saline solution. Approximately four liters need to put 1-2 spoons. Let the curtain lie in it for two hours.
Salt absorbs dirt and fumes.
After soaking, it can be washed in a soapy solution and hung to drain, because. organza cannot be injured by twisting.
Organza bleaches well with oxygen bleach. He is more gentle on these types of matters.
Due to the fact that the organza is transparent and without patterns, it wonderfully transmits light and looks very modern. If it is snow-white, then it also gleams wonderfully in the sun.
Starch
You can bleach organza tulle in a starch solution. To do this, add a couple of tablespoons of starch to lukewarm water, hold a couple of aces and leave to drain.
It is also possible to use purchased products for bleaching, but it is better to give preference to those marked “for curtains and tulle” and not ruin the curtain.
The starch helps the fibers of the fabric keep the shape of the curtain.
How to quickly wash and bleach tulle in a washing machine
The washing machine will also do an excellent job of washing curtains, but it is better to run the wash on a delicate mode and at a water temperature of no higher than 30 degrees.
When preparing the wash, you can add bleaching ingredients: after adding the washing powder, pour 10 hydrogen peroxide tablets or 2 tablespoons of liquid from the bottle into the compartment. Run a delicate wash at water temperatures up to 30 degrees.
As you can see, there are quite a few ways to support, and even return whiteness to tulle. I did not write about bleaching it with a solution of manganese, because. it is prohibited for free distribution in Russian pharmacies.
I would be grateful for the comments if the article was useful.