Passing on a cycling clothes (and regular clothes) laundering tip
06-21-12, 08:05 PM
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Passing on a cycling clothes (and regular clothes) laundering tip
Mix your detergent with hydrogen peroxide.
Someone told me that and I was skeptical. However I've been doing it for a month or so now and it really works. I have an really old CSC jersey where the whites had gone grey for the past year or so. One wash like this and they are white again. Not sure how it works but it seems to really work. Also mixed up a solution in a squirt bottle and treated a stain on a non cycling white shirt that had been there for a while, then washed it. Totally gone after one wash.
Anecdotal evidence - ymmv.
Someone told me that and I was skeptical. However I've been doing it for a month or so now and it really works. I have an really old CSC jersey where the whites had gone grey for the past year or so. One wash like this and they are white again. Not sure how it works but it seems to really work. Also mixed up a solution in a squirt bottle and treated a stain on a non cycling white shirt that had been there for a while, then washed it. Totally gone after one wash.
Anecdotal evidence - ymmv.
06-21-12, 08:35 PM
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Thanks for the tip. Ill try it on the kids cloths first 
06-21-12, 10:32 PM
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Half a cup of vinegar in the first cycle before the soap works wonders if your synthetics smell a bit funky. Pre-soaking in a vinegar solution works great too.
06-22-12, 06:31 AM
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It's a future in which our clothes are dirty, we have no soap that works to wash our bodies, our dishes are full of gritty film, our floors are grungy, our windows are smudgy, everything more or less stinks like vinegar, our toilets don't work, our trash is hurled in a pile out back, and vast amounts of our time are spent scrubbing things instead of reading, singing, writing, or conversing. It is a future just like the long-ago past, complete with wash tubs, wash boards, and outhouses — along with their attendant dirt, disease, and deprivation.
My own enlightenment on this issue came within the last year. Like millions of others, I had forgotten what a clean dish looked like.....
My own enlightenment on this issue came within the last year. Like millions of others, I had forgotten what a clean dish looked like.....
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It makes my whites whiter!
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06-22-12, 06:53 AM
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Pfft...bachelors.
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06-22-12, 06:57 AM
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I have two jerseys that will be subject to this little experiment this weekend. Thanks!
WTH, going to wash my darks in this too and see what happens.
WTH, going to wash my darks in this too and see what happens.
06-22-12, 09:03 AM
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Someone told me this will even remove red wine stains if you pre-treat the stain with it. Not sure why they were drinking red wine while they were riding though. 
Hey wasn't there a thread about that recently?
Hey wasn't there a thread about that recently?
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06-22-12, 10:26 AM
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Anyone got suggestions for removing the rust looking stains caused by sunscreen? I have found stuff online saying do not use bleach or dry because that will make the stains worse but haven't found anything for removing them.
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Try this tip if you want whiter whites. https://mises.org/daily/5267
His desire to wear bright white shirts is not worth destroying the ecosystem of my waterways with excess phosphates. Freedom? I want to be free of his selfish pollution.
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I think I missed something. DUR.
DUR.
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06-22-12, 11:39 AM
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I swiped a stained fence, got a stain on the sleeve on my jacket, I'd like to know what to use too.
It sort of looks like dried blood.
I tried stain remover but it didn't work.
I swiped a stained fence, got a stain on the sleeve on my jacket, I'd like to know what to use too.
It sort of looks like dried blood.
I tried stain remover but it didn't work.
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Please tell me that you didn't get red wine stain on your kit. I thought cyclists were of the understanding that anything but beer before/during/after a ride is sacrilege. :-P
06-22-12, 11:51 AM
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Check out what Tide Stain Brain has to say:
https://www.tide.com/en-US/stains/res...sed.jspx?id=46
(Not sure if stain is oil based but I bet that site will help.)
https://www.tide.com/en-US/stains/res...sed.jspx?id=46
(Not sure if stain is oil based but I bet that site will help.)
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Check out what Tide Stain Brain has to say:
https://www.tide.com/en-US/stains/res...sed.jspx?id=46
(Not sure if stain is oil based but I bet that site will help.)
https://www.tide.com/en-US/stains/res...sed.jspx?id=46
(Not sure if stain is oil based but I bet that site will help.)
Thanks.
06-23-12, 10:39 AM
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Same idea as OxyClean, probably not chemically identical. It's also not safe to use on wool, if you have any.
A naphtha bath would probably also work.
A naphtha bath would probably also work.