My white underear turns grey (gray ) when I wash it a few times , how do I get them white again?
Question:These are not cotton, they are nylon.
Answers:
You need to change your washing powder.
The reason they are going grey is that your current detergent uses too many fillers in their recipe. This is done so that consumers do not use too much of the actual detergent in their laundry - as most people have a mind set of adding a cup of powder to each wash. These fillers are now stuck on the fibres of your clothes and make it look grey. These fillers also build up in your washing machine. This build up may come loose at some point and leave dark grey spots on your laundry. So when switching to a new powder, run a machine cycle with hot water and the new detergent.
Change to something where you need only use 1 or 2 small scoops. Perhaps also use a little less fabric softener.
EDIT: Agree with the others:
-Nylon is one of the fibres that is quickest to take on colour, wash with your other whites only.
-Never use chlorine bleach on Nylon
BLEACH!
bleach
1 cup of bleach in your whites.
Use bleach
Capful of bleach in a bucket full of water should sort them out!
mine is always white!!...hehe..lol..just joking around..
Don't use chlorine bleach on nylon.
Instead, try adding peroxide to your wash water.
Only wash your whites with whites - never add anything with color to the load. Use a mild bleach or oxiclean in addition to detergent. If this still doesn't help, maybe it's a problem with your water. If that is the case, start buying a different color underwear. :-)
try hand washing them with something like ivory soap, did that with my husbands underwear and it worked when the bleach wasn't doing so.
Use OXICLEAN, works great on clothes and good for house cleaning.
Are you washing them with dark colors? Anytime you wash white with colors other than white, they start to look dingy. I would also throw some bleach in the water and mix the two real well before adding the clothes into the washer.
Try hand washing in the sink with Ivory snow, or another type of baby soap, nylon will take on other colors easily, like your blue jeans, and are not breathable.
Once they are color damaged, you can try bleach, or oxi clean, but chances are they won't ever be pretty white again..stick to cotton, or silk undies..they are much better for your body, and don't stain as bad!
you should be washing them in bleach every time you wash them...with other whites i might add :).
Two things I would recommend: (1) Use OxyClean with your detergent -- don't use bleach on nylon, and (2) Make sure your whites go through an extra rinse cycle. Mom knows best, and my mother told me the main reason whites get that dingy grey look is the soap doesn't get completely rinsed out unless you do an extra rinse cycle. It has worked for me...
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