Best Laundry Supplies
Keeping all your clothes the best they can be is simply a matter of what you are using to wash them with. Taking a stroll down the laundry aisle at the store there are so many options all claiming to be the best; having everything that you need that the others can't compete with. While some are better than others, I have found the products that I feel work the best and have yet to let me down. These products keep my clothes looking bright and new, keeps my whites white, removes even tough stains and my laundry is always left smelling clean and fresh.
Laundry room supplies always starts with the right detergent. Liquid Tide with color safe bleach is what I always keep on hand. The detergent itself smells great and doesn't over power you favorite fabric softeners. It deep cleans clothes, works to get stains out, and keeps them in great condition wash after wash. Tide does come in powder form but I recommend using liquid formula no matter what detergent you prefer to use. Powder detergents have a difficult time dissolving in larger loads unless you let the machine run part of the cycle before adding clothes in. Also, the powder creates a mess in and around your washer. The build up that accumulates just in the lip of your washer lid is tough to get rid of.
Got clothes with stains that didn't get a pre-treat in time? OxiClean has you covered. Pick up a tub of it and a cheap spray bottle. Add the OxiClean to you next wash load. If you notice, OxiClean offers a pre-treating spray bottle but there is no need to bother buying it. Look on the back of the tub you bought and you'll find that they give you step by step instructions on how to make the spray that they sell. It's a simple combination of water and the powder. So instead of spending on the tub of OxiClean and then another $6 on the pre-treating spray, look at your local dollar store for an all purpose spray bottle for much less and make your own. For the best stain fighting results, follow the instructions exactly as they say to do.
Sometimes even OxiClean and Tide aren't enough to get out some of the stains that my daughter ends up with. I don't know how she manages it, but she does. Cleaning up her latest juice tie-died t-shirt is as easy as adding some Shout Spray and Wash to the mix does the trick every time. I use both pre-treaters and the OxiClean in the wash cycle. Gently rub the stain removers into the fabric and you should notice that the stains are already beginning to disappear. Give the pre-treaters some time to work before you throw them in the wash cycle. Normally about 10 to 20 minutes is long enough.
When I'm on the go I do like to keep a Clorox Pen with me. It fits right into my bag and in some cases when I have to use it, the stains start to lift before we even get back home. Clorox Pens are cheap and you can find them in just about any store that carries laundry supplies. As cleaning products evolve just as everything else around us, I'm always open to new ideas and methods to try. Feel free to share some of yours here. I would love to try them out!
