5 natural remedies that can replace bleach
The bleach will help to remove a stain from clothes or to return to it a fresh look. But in addition to bleach, there are also tools that can cope with this task. You do not even suspect some of them, although they are always at hand.
Baking soda
Each housewife has baking soda in the kitchen. It not only bleaches the fabric, but also helps maintain the structure of the fibers.
On 1l. water will need 1 tablespoon of soda and half a spoonful of ammonia. We prepare the solution in the required amount, mix thoroughly and place the linen in it for 3 hours. If the pollution is strong, boil things for half an hour.
The method is good for children's things, as soda is safe for the skin of a child and does not provoke allergic reactions. And the result is no worse than that of store bleach.
Aspirin
A popular medicine is also an excellent detergent for clothing. It copes with many contaminants, including yellow and gray spots on things, and in some cases can be more effective than powders and bleaches.
But avoid quick-dissolving tablets like UPSA - things can fade. Take a cheaper drug, for example, acetylsalicylic acid.
Dissolve 5 tablets in 3l. warm water and soak the laundry in it for at least 10 hours. Then wash with your hands. Moisten the stains on the clothes, hold them for one and a half to two hours and then wash them in the machine using powder.
Vegetable oil
To clean dirty kitchen towels will help ... vegetable oil. Do not be surprised - the oil is used simultaneously with powder and bleaching agent.
To prepare the solution, add 3 tablespoons of powder, oil and bleach to hot water and mix. Soak the towels in the resulting composition overnight, and in the morning wash in a washing machine.
Or mix the ingredients in hot boiled water and place towels there. After cooling, rinse.
Borax or boric acid
Borax is not a chemical, but a natural mineral from boron, sodium, water and oxygen. She miraculously copes with mold and the smell of dampness, does not emit toxic fumes. But it can irritate the skin and is dangerous when ingested.
The stores sell detergents with borax. But the bleach can also be prepared independently by adding borax to the laundry detergent. Dilute half a glass of borax in hot water and add to the washing machine, where there is already linen and powder.
Another tool that is also able to replace bleach and which is confused with borax is boric acid. But, unlike borax, it is more reasonable to use it for white things, which it brilliantly whitens.
We take the required amount of water (at the rate of 1 tablespoon of boric acid per 1 liter of water) and soak things for 2 hours. After soaking, we wash the laundry in the machine. If the pollution is severe, you can boil things in a solution of boric acid over low heat for an hour, and then also wash in a washing machine. In this case, soaking is not required.
Hydrogen peroxide
Pharmaceutical peroxide miraculously whitens white things and is inexpensive at the same time. It contains no strong substances that irritate the skin, and it has an antiseptic effect.
We prepare the solution (for 2 liters of warm water we take 1 teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide), soak things for 30 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes to evenly bleach. Then carefully rinse the clothes in clean water.
