Effective and cheap, or how to wash a kitchen towel using vegetable oil

Every housewife knows firsthand how difficult it is wash kitchen towels from ingrained food traces.

Conventional means do not always cope with them. Then you have to resort to proven folk methods, which turn out to be much more effective.

In particular, this applies to bleaching laundry using vegetable oil. Paradoxically, the towels acquire pristine cleanliness and freshness.

Let's take a closer look at how to wash a kitchen towel using vegetable oil.

What do you need to know before washing?

To prevent washing from taking a lot of time and effort, it is recommended not to use it in the kitchen. terry towels. Due to prolonged drying, they quickly begin to smell bad.

It is preferable to choose cotton, bamboo or linen cloths and napkins. It is better if they are waffle, because they absorb moisture well and dry quickly.

Kitchen towels will not get dirty as intensely if they are ironed with a hot iron after washing and drying.

Washing towels with vegetable oil, suitable for any cotton fabrics. And after 2-3 soakings, even faded fabrics regain their former brightness. But it makes no sense to wash synthetics in a homemade vegetable mixture - the desired result will not be achieved.

The laundry is immersed in any of the proposed solutions for 5-6 hours:

• add 5 tbsp to warm water (5-6 liters). l. washing powder and baking soda;
• The same number of tablespoons of salt are dissolved in the same amount of water.

For white laundry, soaking with Domestos bleach is suitable. Subsequent washing with vegetable oil produces an appropriate chemical reaction that helps break down the protein base of difficult-to-remove stains. In addition, the oil also whitens clothes.

To remove contaminants from textiles, you must choose exclusively filtered oil (preferably sunflower) is a refined or deodorized product.

Recipes

People have long discovered the high effectiveness of vegetable oil in washing heavily soiled laundry. Therefore, today a lot of recipes have accumulated, which are still used by housewives to this day.

Sunflower oil and bleach

This recipe is suitable for washing yellowed towels and bed linen.

You will need the following ingredients:

• 100 g of any washing powder;
• 80 g dry bleach (for example, “Ace”);
• 100 ml refined sunflower oil;
• 100 ml table vinegar (9%).

All this is diluted in boiling water and immersed in dirty towels. The next day, wash in the washing machine as usual.

The video will show you how to bleach white towels using vegetable oil and bleach:

We use laundry soap

An indispensable cleaning product in everyday life is laundry soap. And in the fight against stubborn dirt on kitchen towels, it is used no less actively.

For this recipe you will need:

• water – 10 liters;
• enamel container;
• 90 ml sunflower oil;
• 100 g liquid or dry bleach;
• ? brick of laundry soap.

Operating principle:

1. The water is brought to a boil.
2. Add the remaining ingredients. Only soap is first grated with shavings.
3. Mix thoroughly until all particles are completely dissolved.
4. Place laundry in the solution and boil for about 15 minutes (longer if very dirty).
5. Turn off the stove and do not remove the towels until the soap-oil solution has completely cooled.

Then wash the clothes as usual. To guarantee perfectly clean towels, it is recommended to soak them overnight in a soap-herbal mixture.

With potassium permanganate

When you need to return the original whiteness to kitchen linens or napkins, you can use this tool:

1. Dilute potassium permanganate in water until a slightly pinkish solution is obtained.
2. Mix in a little shavings of laundry soap and 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
3. Immerse soiled laundry in the solution and leave for at least 10 hours.
4. After that, they take it out and put it in the washing machine.

Add vinegar

This option is somewhat similar to the previous one, but it is more suitable for bleaching a large volume of dirty laundry. Also, there is no need to boil it.

Required components:

• hot water – 15 liters;
• 9% vinegar – 3 tbsp. l.;
• washing powder – 220 g;
• powdered bleach – 120 g;
• odorless sunflower oil – 130 ml.

The listed components are added to water and mixed. Textiles are soaked in the resulting solution overnight and washed in the morning.

With soda

If, after removing the towels from the machine after washing, remaining stains are found, then proceed as follows:

1. Soak them in an oil solution with the addition of soda and washing powder. Each component is taken in an amount of 3-4 tbsp. spoons and pour into hot water.
2. The laundry is kept in this solution for up to 10 hours.
3. After this, it is washed again in the machine.

Mustard powder

This recipe comes from Japan and has been used for washing clothes since ancient times. True, it had to be changed a little in a modern way, but the essence remained unchanged.

What you need to prepare:

• mustard powder – 1 tbsp. l.;
• table vinegar – 40 ml;
• pure vegetable oil – 40-50 ml;
• water (heated to 60? C).

The first 3 components are diluted in water and mixed thoroughly. Then soak the towels for 10-12 hours. After the set period has expired, the laundry is rinsed first in warm, then cool water.

We use ammonia

Another option that copes well with stubborn stains on kitchen textiles.

Instructions for use:

1. Add 50 ml of ammonia to a five-liter bucket filled with hot water.
2. Then add 40 ml of 9% table vinegar and 80 ml of dishwashing detergent.
3. Stir and place dirty napkins and towels in there.

Tips and prohibitions

As you can see, almost all recipes with vegetable oil contain bleach. When these two components come into contact, their properties are enhanced and the effect is more pronounced.

And to achieve the best result, you should follow certain professional tips:

1. The plant component is poured exclusively into boiling water and only as a last resort. First, add other substances according to the recipe and wait for them to completely dissolve.

   Otherwise, an oily film will appear on the surface, which will prevent the particles of powder and bleach from dissolving.

2. If vinegar is used in preparing the solution, then replacing the bleach with soda is not advisable.

   These two ingredients together produce a violent reaction in the form of abundant foam. As a result, it will rush out and flood everything around. As a last resort, you can use high tanks.

3. Dry linens are placed in prepared soap solutions. Excess moisture prevents the productive breakdown of greasy marks.
4. To boil and bleach laundry, it is advisable to have a large enamel bucket with a lid. This is convenient because after storing the laundry and filling it with the cleaning solution, the bucket can be closed.

   And so that the liquid does not cool down longer, it is wrapped in a blanket. In this way, it is possible to create favorable conditions for removing grease stains.

Conclusion

A tandem of vegetable oil, regular washing powder and bleach can work a miracle.

The popularity of this method is that everything you need is always available on the farm and no special financial investments are required.