12 Laundry Tips To Make Your Clothes Smell And Feel Like Spring

Aug 06, 2018 by apost team

Laundry is always a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be so long. These tips will help you to cut down the time you spend on it.

1. The Dry Towel Trick

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You can speed up the drying of a few items if you hang dry towels in between those items. You can also dry a shirt that you want to put on by wrapping it up inside of dry towels. The trick works perfectly.

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2. Blow Dry Your Stains

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The blow-dryer trick is the golden trick for getting stains like soil, dirt and grass off your shirt. You can heat these items up with a blow dryer and then put detergent on the spot. When the washing machine is done cycling, you may notice a huge difference.

3. Wash Your Socks With Cold Water

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Socks carry protein-based dirt, which means that hot water will not help them. To get your socks as clean as possible, you need to wash them in cold water.

4. Put Baseball Caps In The Dishwasher

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The dishwasher is a better option for your baseball caps because it will maintain their shape. Caps often get ruined inside of the washing machine. Try this effective trick the next time you want to make your baseball cap clean.

5. Use Shaving Cream For Makeup Stains

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Shaving cream works wonders on lipstick stains and other makeup stains. You just need to put a little bit of shaving cream on it and then wash it as usual.

6. Make Foil Balls

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If you have a problem with static charge, you can use tin foil balls to counteract it. Ball of some tinfoil, make 8 different balls and put them in the machine. Sort by fabric weight.

7. Don't Sort By Colors

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Many people sort clothes by color to prevent bleeding of colors. It's actually the fabric weight that makes one thing bleed into another because it absorbs much more water. Separate the heavy from the light the next time and see what happens.

8. Don't Put A Conditioner On Whites

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Adding a bleach-based component to your wash is likelier to keep your whites brilliant than a conditioner is. The conditioner might actually dull the white.

9. Soak Clothes In Baby Shampoo

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Have you ever had some of your clothes shrink when they went through the wash in the dryer? Baby shampoo may be the solution. You just soak the piece of clothing in the baby shampoo for 15 minutes and then wash it as usual. You may just see a big difference.

10. Put Aspirin In The Washing Machine

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White clothes are beautiful, but a lot of people avoid wearing them because of the yellow sweat stains that get in them. You can eliminate that problem by adding some aspirin pills to your next wash. The salicylic acid will eliminate those yellow stains.

11. Put Socks In a Bag

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Invest in some little bags that you can put your socks in. A lot of people lose their socks in washing machines, so businesses started selling little baggies to put your socks in. Spend a few dollars and save your socks.

12. Clean the Washing Machine With Mouthwash

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Yes, you heard it right. You can clean your washing machine with about half a glass of regular mouthwash. It will rid the washing machines of fungus, bacteria and mold.

Take those tips and enhance your clothes washing experience. Pretty soon you'll become a pro, be able to have the whitest and brightest clothes in the neighborhood. Let your people know about these tips.