What happens if you put Aspirin in a washing machine
With the elimination of stains on clothes, curtains, tablecloths and bedding, not only store powders and gels will cope. To return the product to its original white color, tablets containing acetylsalicylic acid can be used. This substance copes with stains of sweat, berries, coffee, tea and other products, removes yellowness or gray tint from things. Aspirin and its analogues can be used for bleaching in hand and machine wash, as well as for descaling in a machine.
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Why put aspirin in a washing machine
For washing white things or cleaning the washing machine, any product containing acetylsalicylic acid is suitable. Moreover, you can even use those medicines that have long expired. Expired medications based on acetylsalicylic acid should not be thrown away - they need to be transferred from the first aid kit to a cabinet with detergents and used for household purposes.
The use of Aspirin is absolutely harmless to the laundry, washing machine and skin of the hands. To exclude possible allergic reactions from the skin, before soaking or hand washing, rubber or latex gloves should be put on your hands.
Washing things with Aspirin helps to solve several problems at the same time:
- Remove yellow spots in the armpits.
- Eliminate the unpleasant odor of sweat.
- Wash contaminants from various foods and drinks.
- Return the gray or yellowed fabrics from time to time to their original whiteness.
Tablets are useful for emergency removal of fresh spots, and for removing old stains, and for preventing the appearance of a gray or yellowish tint on white tissues. Medicines can be safely used to whiten flax, batiste, poplin, satin and other cotton fabrics. But with delicate things one should be more careful - it is not known how the fibers of silk, organza or capron will behave after contact with Aspirin. However, if a thing turns yellow from time to time, there are 2 options left - to throw it away or experiment with a medicinal bleach.
A nice bonus from the use of drugs based on acetylsalicylic acid is their price, which is several times lower than the cost of oxygen bleaches.
Aspirin has a single minus: the acid, which is part of the composition, can discolor dyed fibers, so tablets can not be used to remove stains from colored things.
Rules for using Aspirin
There is a general rule: tablets of Aspirin and its analogues should be crushed into powder with a spoon, a wooden crusher, a crush for garlic or another improvised item before use.If this is not done, the drug will dissolve poorly and will not have the desired effect on the laundry or the washing machine. The use of effervescent forms makes the task easier - such tablets dissolve easily and quickly when in contact with water, but are somewhat more expensive.
Before use, aspirin must be crushed into powder
Handwash
Soaking laundry with Aspirin is an easy way to renew grayed or yellowed things:
- Grind 5–7 tablets into powder and dilute in 7–8 liters of warm water.
- In the finished bleaching solution, soak the laundry and leave for 8-10 hours.
- When the exposure time has expired, wash things manually or in a machine.
This option is more suitable for bulk products - bedspreads, tablecloths, curtains, bath towels or bed linen.
To remove sweat or food stains on a T-shirt, blouse or other clothes, you need to grind 1-2 tablets with a dosage of 300-500 mg, dissolve in 100 ml of water and pour the resulting solution onto pre-moistened spots. After 2-3 hours of soaking, the wardrobe item can be washed with laundry soap or laundry detergent.
The longer the soaking time, the more snow-white the laundry will become.
Machine wash
To prevent the appearance of yellowness or eliminate minor impurities on white things, before starting the automatic machine, you need to add several Aspirin tablets (300-500 mg) to it:
- for half load - 5 pcs.;
- for full load - 10 pcs.
The crushed drugs should be placed in a powder cuvette or poured into a drum - the effect of bleaching will be the same. To better dissolve the powder, it can be previously diluted in a glass of warm water. Then it remains to pour the right amount of detergent, set the appropriate mode and water heating, and start a full wash cycle.
Recommendations for using Aspirin in a washing machine: video
Descaling machine
Aspirin and its analogues are suitable for preventing the appearance of limescale inside the washing machine or for removing non-critical mineral deposits. Acetylsalicylic acid has the same effect as other folk remedies, but it is more harmless in comparison with vinegar and citric acid. She will not be able to cope with the old scale on the ten, but she will certainly return the sheen and purity to the metal drum.
To prevent the problem of descaling from becoming a catastrophe, cleaning the Aspirin washing machine should be carried out regularly:
- in regions with soft tap water - once every 3–6 months;
- in areas where hard water comes from taps - at least 1 time per month.
The method of removing limescale is simple:
- Grind 2.5 g of acetylsalicylic acid (5 tablets of 500 mg or 8-9 tablets of 300 mg), dissolve in a glass of water and pour directly into the drum of the automatic machine.
- Do not load laundry, start a full wash cycle at idle.
- Before turning on the washing machine, set the mode with maximum water heating.
If desired, you can throw 2-3 tablets more than the recommended above into the automatic machine - this will not harm household appliances.
Reviews
The effectiveness of drugs based on acetylsalicylic acid is evidenced by the numerous reviews of the hostesses who actually experienced the whitening properties of the tablets.
I have two young children, so stains from food, blood, felt-tip pens are always present on children's clothes.I remove these spots with acetylsalicylic acid tablets intended for the treatment of fever and headache. The other day I was drying berries and grass on a sheet on a balcony; the whole sheet was green and raspberry. She put it in a basin, soaked it in warm water, and dissolved 2 aspirin tablets there. Stirred and left for the night. The next morning, the sheet looked better. At first the whole sheet seemed white to me, but when I wrung it out, I saw light ink spots in some places, so I washed everything with powder, and the spots were washed away. Stains did not appear immediately upon soaking, I think I put few tablets or the spots were stale (the berry dried for 3 days). And so, on children's clothes, if the kids spill something on themselves, if they soak immediately, everything is well washed.
At the birthday party, guests spilled juice from berries on a new white tablecloth made of synthetic linen. The stain looked intimidating. Not so much the size frightened me, but the color and composition. The spot was a bright crimson color, the juice was squeezed out of thawed berries: berry, blackcurrant, strawberries and raspberries. Ah, yes, still chokeberry and lemon ... I diluted the pill in water, at first it reluctantly dissolved, but completely dissolved. I moistened the stain with water. She put the tablecloth in a bowl and poured a glass of solution on top of the wet stain. An hour later, washed the tablecloth with other things in the typewriter. She got out with a shudder of heart ... But ... cheers !!! Everything was erased without a trace!
Acetylsalicylic acid has a powerful whitening property. It is able to eliminate spots of different origins, to return a gray-white shade to gray or yellowed things. For hand or machine wash, both imported Aspirin and cheap Russian analogues will do. If you follow the instructions above and follow the recommended dosage, you do not have to buy expensive bleaching chemicals.
