Archive Category: 'Laundry'

• 3 Cool Laundry Tips From Arm & Hammer: Chlorine Bleach Booster Cut back on harsh chemicals in your laundry by reducing the amount of bleach you use. When washing whites, add 1/2 cup of baking soda with 1/2 cup of bleach (instead of using a full cup of bleach). This helps cut down the stinky bleach smell too. Liquid Laundry Detergent Booster Add 1 cup of [...]
• Quick Tip: Starch & Stiffen Crinolines: 1 cup boiling water, 1/2 cup sugar. Boil and cool. Add: 1 tbsp. gelatine and thin down to thickness needed. To Stiffen Crinoline… Dissolve 1 package gelatin in 1 cup water. Wash and rinse crinoline then soak and squeeze crinoline in gelatin mixture. Remove and drain without rinsing. This will stay stiff longer than starch. *Found on loose [...]
• Washing Leather Gloves – Woman’s Home Companion: Woman’s Home Companion Household Book 1948 Leather Gloves Wash only gloves which are labeled washable. Wash them frequently so that dirt and oil from the skin will not become embedded in the leather. This will cause a change of color and harden the leather. If the gloves have ever been dry cleaned, do not attempt to wash them. Use tepid [...]
• Homemade Lavender Starch Recipe: Today’s feature blog is Storybook Woods and the tip: Lavender Linen Starch: So I looked around the internet, played with some recipes and came up with this one. I was thinking how a bottle of this and a bottel of Linen water would make a lovely gift. You could use any essential oil. I just like [...]
• Frugral Fabric Softener Recipes & Dryer Sheet Tips: Here are several quick tips that you can try as frugal fabric softeners, each point is a separate tip. Next you’ll find a Homemade Fabric Softener Recipe and instructions for Reusable Homemade Dryer Sheets. Quick Tips: Frugal Fabric Softeners Using 1/4 cup vinegar in your laundry’s rinse cycle keeps clothes soft. You can set aside a vinegar [...]
• 10 Homemade Laundry Soap Detergent Recipes: Here is a nice stack of different homemade laundry detergent recipes I’ve collected over the years. Do they work? Yes, I’ve had good luck with them. t the time I was using homemade detergent, we had a relative who was in trade school living with us. Every day he was mechanic grease from head to toe–the [...]
• Did You Know: Wash Your Dryer’s Lint Trap: Cleaning out the lint and fuzz from the lint trap between loads is something we all know needs doing. But did you know you should regularly wash the lint trap in warm, soapy water as well? Here’s why: …keeping the lint filter clean is one simple way to increase the efficiency and lifespan (and decrease the [...]
• Sorting & Organizing Laundry Tip: This simple trick was life changing in our household! Materials Needed: 1 Laundry Basket for each member in your family 1 Laundry Basket for towels & misc. Directions: As you fold your clean and finished laundry, sort each item into the assigned basket for each family member. Each person is responsible for picking up their basket and putting away their clothing [...]