How to whiten kitchen tulle at home. How to bleach tulle without special household chemicals
Those housewives who have nylon curtains probably know that after several years of use they acquire an ugly gray or yellowish tint. And regular washing can not fix anything. However, do not rush to acquire new curtains. There are several popular ways to wash and bleach nylon tulle at home. Let's find out about the most popular ones.
How can you bleach nylon tulle?
First of all, I would like to say that it is possible to bleach nylon only after the nylon curtain has been washed well. Otherwise, all the dirt will firmly eat into the fabric and then no bleach will help. Therefore, after removing the curtain from the window, shake it thoroughly. Then soak for half an hour in warm water with washing powder, and then wash in the usual way. However, remember that the water temperature should not exceed 30°C. And only after washing the nylon curtain well, you can start bleaching it.
In the event that you have never used industrial bleaches, then you can use, for example, powder from Frau Martha, Boss or Vanish Oxi to bleach nylon. It is necessary to use such bleaches strictly according to the instructions.
If the use of factory-made nylon bleaching agents had no effect, you can use a very effective folk remedy: ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. To do this, dissolve one tablespoon of ammonia and two tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide in a bucket of warm water. We immerse the nylon tulle in the solution and, stirring, keep it in it for about 30 minutes. Now you need to thoroughly rinse the curtain. To squeeze water out of it, you can wrap the fabric in a towel. After that, the wet nylon tulle can be hung on the eaves, where it will straighten out under its own weight, so that the curtain will not need ironing.
As practice shows, it is possible to whiten nylon tulle from yellowness using the usual brilliant green. To make a nylon curtain snow-white again, dissolve 10-15 drops of brilliant green in a glass of water. Let the solution settle, and if no sediment remains at the bottom of the glass, you can use the bleach solution. Otherwise, not completely dissolved brilliant green can color your curtain green, and very unevenly. Pour the resulting mixture into the rinse water, rinse the tulle in it and wean the fabric, trying not to twist or deform it. After such a procedure, nylon tulle will have a fresh and clean look.
The same bleaching of nylon tulle can be done with blue. During the last rinse, add a little blue to the water and rinse the curtain for 2-3 minutes. Now rinse the fabric well in clean water. To avoid blue streaks on the fabric, the solution must first be stirred well.
Many experienced housewives use the usual table salt. Whitening can be done in two ways. According to the first of them, you need to take hot water and dissolve 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of salt, adding washing powder to the solution. Soak the capron in this mixture for about three hours. You can even leave it on all night, and in the morning wash the curtains and rinse very well. According to the second method, we dissolve in warm water 1-2 tbsp. spoons of salt. In this solution, soak the stretched nylon tulle for 20 minutes. Now, without rinsing, you need to slightly squeeze the curtain and hang it up.
As you can see, there are many ways to bleach nylon tulle. Use one of them, and your curtain will again take on a snow-white look.
Over time, the tulle loses its snow-white appearance, turns gray, so any hostess needs to know how to whiten transparent curtains at home. There is no need to exhaust yourself with repeated washing of matter that has lost its attractive appearance, such a procedure will not bring any result. Use modern bleaching products or old-fashioned advice, and curtains will become even whiter in one wash than when you bought them.
Caring for sheer curtains
Tulle is needed not only to protect the room from the bright sun and prying eyes. A bare opening, even framed by beautiful curtains, creates a feeling of incompleteness, the room becomes uncomfortable. The stores offer many types of transparent textiles for window decoration. Usually housewives buy synthetic material: nylon, organza. There are also adherents of ecological materials, they prefer traditional curtains made of natural threads.
If the windows overlook a busy street, the snow-white tulle quickly gets dirty, it becomes gray. Curtains made of synthetic materials are easy to clean from dust; after a normal wash, they acquire their original beauty. Set the machine to delicate mode and heat no higher than 30⁰C. Do not use chemical bleaches as they can damage delicate fabrics. If, after several washes, tulle curtains have lost their attractive appearance, you need to use folk methods for restoring whiteness.
Before washing, thoroughly shake the tulle, shaking out the dust. If you immediately throw the removed curtains into the washing machine, the dust will penetrate into the fibers, it will be very difficult to wash the curtains to whiteness.
If a tulle made of natural threads hangs on the window, after the first time you can remove an ugly grayish rag from the washing machine, which can only be used to curtain the window in the pantry. But when using curtains made of white cotton or linen, there is one big advantage: these fibers tolerate washing well and the use of strong bleaches. Previously, such curtains were simply boiled, and they became snow-white. Now there is no need to put a huge tank on the stove and breathe steam for several hours; washing machines successfully cope with such work. But if the air has turned gray, obtained by a rare interweaving of thin threads, it must be handled with extreme caution.
To put the curtains in order, you can use the laundry or dry cleaning services. This work is expensive, and you will have to constantly carry heavy bales to and from the service department. Calculate how long it will take to travel and place an order, and think: isn't it better to learn? There are many ways to get this job done quickly and efficiently.
Why does tulle lose its whiteness?
Any hostess knows that without the use of special means, white fabric eventually acquires an unpleasant yellow or grayish tint. Blouses, shirts and T-shirts that used to be pure white have to be soaked in bleach or dyed after a few washes. If durable fabrics can be soaked in strong solutions containing aggressive substances, then delicate organza or capron, when cleaned in this way, will be spoiled and will no longer be able to be restored. Synthetic tulle can only be bleached with gentle means.
Tulle constantly hangs on the window opening, dust settles on it. When people pull back the curtain, fingerprints remain on the fabric. If there are children or pets in the apartment, the lower edge of the curtains gets dirty very quickly. Fine matter cannot be subjected to strong mechanical stress, washing in a delicate mode will only remove surface contamination, and particles that have eaten into the fibers will remain and will soon give the snow-white matter an unpleasant shade.
In rural areas or in dachas, people still use stove heating, and particles of ash sit on the curtains. In the kitchen, the smallest droplets of evaporated fat settle on the matter, on which dust sticks. The smoke from cigarettes will also not bypass the transparent curtains, leaving a dirty-colored coating and an unpleasant smell on them. Direct sunlight affects different fabrics in different ways: they can bleach, or they can leave yellow marks. All these factors gradually turn a beautiful snow-white tulle into an untidy grayish rag of a dirty shade.
What is the best way to bleach tulle?
Before bleaching tulle, figure out why it has lost its attractive appearance. If the fabric is simply covered with dust, it needs to be shaken out and scrolled in the washing machine, sometimes this procedure is enough. Over time, the curtains acquire a gray tint that cannot be removed with plain water and detergents. Whiteness will help restore hydrogen peroxide. Sometimes the threads turn yellow, this phenomenon is often found in apartments where people smoke a lot. In this case, it is better to use soda or salt for bleaching. For such a procedure, you need to take only salt with large crystals. Fine white powder, intended for salt shakers on the table, is not suitable for washing.
If the tulle has turned yellow, do not wash it in hot water, the temperature should not exceed 30⁰C. With strong heating, the yellow pigment will penetrate into the fibers, it will be very difficult to remove it.
The type of tulle on the windows has always been considered an indicator of the accuracy of the hostess. If the opening was covered with ugly gray rags, no one thought how much work the woman had put in to bleach the yellowed tulle, everyone noticed only the result. We often bleach sheets and duvet covers in strong solutions, which can be used for durable tulle made from natural materials, but will destroy the organza or veil. From generation to generation, the secrets of washing capricious matter were passed on. You can also use the experience of great-grandmothers to turn the fabric on the windows white.
- In 5 liters of cold water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of ammonia and 2 tbsp. spoons of hydrogen peroxide. Soak the tissue in the solution for 30 minutes.
- In 5 liters of warm water, dissolve 2 tbsp. tablespoons of salt and soak the tulle for half an hour.
- Pour a tablespoon of baking soda and washing powder into 5 liters of water and soak the curtains for 3 hours.
- In a bucket of water with a temperature of about 40⁰C, add a solution of potassium permanganate so that the liquid becomes pale pink, and 3 tablespoons of washing powder. Wash the tulle in the solution.
- Soak the yellowed fabric for 5 hours in a solution of laundry soap. Rinse in clean water and soak for 10 minutes in a solution of potato starch: 250 g of powder in 5 liters of water.
Do not throw dirty curtains into the solution. Wash them first to remove surface dirt. Bleaching compositions are not designed to clean the fabric from dirt and dust, but to remove the remaining gray or yellowish tint. Make sure that the curtains are completely immersed in the composition - if at least one corner peeks out of the water, a yellowish tint will remain on it. 
After washing and processing, the curtains need to be rinsed properly, this procedure also has its own secrets.
- In 10 liters of rinse water, add a capful of washing blue.
- In a basin of cold water, add a little salt and 3 drops of brilliant green.
- Add a packet of citric acid or 3 tbsp to the rinse water. spoons of vinegar.
Don't wait for the change in color of the curtains to catch your eye. It is very difficult to remove the stubborn old dullness or yellowness. As soon as the fabric began to lose its original beauty, take action immediately, then the tulle will look like new even after many washes. It is important to observe one condition: you can wash delicate fabrics only in soft water, only in this way you can return the whiteness of the curtains. Since in most apartments a cocktail supersaturated with dissolved salts flows from the taps, use special preparations that soften the water. In this way, you will protect both linen and the washing machine from damage.
How to wash tulle curtains
You can find recommendations to wash and rinse the tulle only with your hands. Such tips are written off from old books, when washing machines were imperfect and could ruin delicate fabrics. If you have a museum piece in your bathroom that has been asking for scrap metal for a long time, it’s better to wash delicate fabrics in a basin. Modern devices can be put on the most delicate mode, programmed with the desired water temperature, and they will not ruin your curtains. In a good machine, all bleaching of the tulle will be done by the machine, you just have to dry the fabric.
To wash the tulle well, do not throw it into the drum in a lump, carefully roll the curtains to the desired size. Very capricious fabrics or curtains that can get tangled when washed, put in a special bag.
There are many means for whitening from dullness and yellowness, and you need to choose the right methods depending on the type of fabric:
- for capron - salt, blue, brilliant green, potassium permanganate, starch;
- for organza - hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, salt, brilliant green;
- for a veil - hydrogen peroxide and ammonia.
When washing, you can add a couple of tablespoons of salt or 10 tablets of hydrogen peroxide to the powder. Do not use bleach with chlorine, now there are better preparations. Oxygen-based products destroy the dirty shade, but do not harm the fabric. Powders with an optical effect leave particles on the fabric that create a visual illusion of whiteness. Such substances can only be used on curtains without a pattern, otherwise the ornament will lose its brightness. In no case do not wring out the tulle with strong twisting, just squeeze it in your hands. Carefully hang the canvases to dry - if the material lies on a rope without wrinkles, you can not iron it, but immediately hang it on the window. Try to fix the white curtain on the cornice while it is still damp, and when the curtain dries, it will take the correct shape.
After each wash of tulle, add 2-3 tablespoons of ammonia to a basin of water to rinse. Let the fabric soak in the solution for about 20 minutes, and then rinse.
In the comments, there are sometimes complaints from housewives who used blue, green or potassium permanganate and received tulle with spots and color stains. This happens if the coloring matter is not completely dissolved. It is not difficult to make a solution without grains: take a small jar of water, add a powder or solution of the drug there and mix well. Wait a few minutes until the color of the liquid becomes uniform, and small particles settle to the bottom. Drain the top layer of the composition into a basin or washing machine, and pour the bottom into the sewer. The pigment will be evenly distributed throughout the volume, will not leave stains, and you will be able to process the delicate fabric so that it is snow-white. 
Dirty tulle curtains not only make the room look unkempt. The dust collected on them contains many harmful particles and microscopic mites that cause allergic reactions. Do not wait until the whole family starts sneezing continuously, wash tulle and curtains in a timely manner. If you don’t have the strength to put all the windows in order, decide to wash the curtains at least on one opening. When you see snow-white muslin framed by bright curtains and lambrequins, you will not be able to look at the gray rags hanging on other windows. Hands themselves will reach for detergents, and soon the whole apartment will become clean and beautiful.
How to remove yellowness and dullness?
Tulle is practical in operation and gives a special flavor to the room. Prudent owners use the slightest opportunity to restore the whiteness of tulle products on their own. To whiten tulle, the achievements of modern science or the means proven by the skills of previous generations are used.Before bleaching, the tulle must be shaken off the settled dust. Wet it in a warm solution of any soap, wash it. Instead of soap, you can use washing powder. After washing, rinse thoroughly with clean warm water.
The use of very hot water will give the fabric a yellowness, which will later be problematic to remove.
Folk remedies
With salt:- Place the tulle at the end of washing and rinsing for 3 hours in a solution of table salt (dissolve salt in water at the rate of 250 g of table salt per 1 liter of water). Rinse 2-3 times in clean cool water.
- Dissolve 100 g of laundry detergent and 100 g of rock salt in 1 liter of hot water. Bring the prepared composition to a warm state by adding cold water. Soak the tulle for 12 hours. Wash and rinse with plenty of clean water. After such bleaching, the tulle becomes bright white.
Since the chemical composition of blue (powder or liquid) contains not only dyes, but also stain removers, blue is used to restore the whiteness of nylon tulle. A faint shade of blue will only accentuate the whiteness.
In 12 liters of water, dissolve 5 g of blue powder or half a cap of the liquid fraction. In such a solution, the tulle product is rinsed at the end of the main wash. Upon completion of rinsing with blue, it is necessary to rinse the tulle in clean water.
Brilliant Green:
The usual pharmacy "brilliant green" is not only a good antiseptic, but also an excellent bleaching agent for nylon nets. In large quantities, it is a difficult to wash off dye, in a small amount, it is an excellent bleach. 10 drops of "brilliant green" are initially dissolved in 200 ml of water at room temperature. The solution should stand for 30 minutes.
At the end of the ordinary wash, the tulle is soaked in 12 liters of warm water mixed with the prepared solution of greenery. It is necessary to make sure that the precipitate of "brilliant green" in an aqueous solution does not get into the container prepared for bleaching. Constantly turning the tulle, after 10 minutes. hang to dry without wringing.
How to bleach tulle at home using salt and greens You can find out by watching the presented video.
Pharmacy potassium permanganate:
In a solution of laundry soap (for quick dissolution, you can grate it), add a pre-prepared saturated aqueous solution of potassium permanganate (all grains should melt). The resulting mixture has a light pink tint with soapy lather. The tulle is soaked in an emulsion liquid for 40 minutes. Then wash and rinse as usual.
Potato starch:
In 12 liters of water, stir 300 g of potato starch. Soak the pre-washed and dried tulle in the resulting solution for 4.5 hours. After the soaking time, stretch the tulle, let it drain and hang it on the window to dry without squeezing.
Baking soda:
Bleaching with baking soda is used as an additional soak before washing. Mix 10 liters of warm water, 100 g of detergent and 40 g of baking soda. Place for 30 min. in the produced solution tulle. Washing is best done by machine with an extra rinse.
You can find another effective method of whitening tulle using soda by watching this video.
Soda ash:
Dissolve 25 g of soda ash and 15 g of hydrogen peroxide in 2 liters of warm water. Soak the tulle for 2 hours with constant turning. After soaking, rinse thoroughly several times in water. Dry without squeezing.
Hydrogen peroxide and ammonia:
The combination of these two components is an excellent bleach for both nylon and cotton tulle.
- Fast method. 50 g of hydrogen peroxide (pharmacy version - 3%), dilute 25 g of ammonia with 10 liters of hot water. Wet the cloth for 40 minutes, turning from time to time with wooden tongs or a stick. After the specified time, rinse thoroughly in water, without squeezing, hang to dry.
- Night way. Prepare a solution of 5 liters of not cold water and 150 g of ammonia. Leave the soaked cloth for 10-12 hours. Then rinse thoroughly with warm water. Without squeezing, hang to air and dry.
For washing and soaking kapron tulles, water should not exceed +30°C.
Using commercial bleach
The modern industry presents several options for bleaching agents. According to their composition, they are divided into the following:- bleach "Whiteness";
- Vanish bleach;
- "ACE";
- "Nanny".
After the use of bleach "Whiteness" tulle fabric may stop "reacting" to milder bleaches.
2. Oxygen-containing. The most effective in the application for bleaching nylon tulle. The main ingredient is hydrogen peroxide. In combination with other washing ingredients, it is recommended for bleaching in washing machines. Their representatives:
- liquid bleach "BOS";
- "Cashmere";
- Lavadia White;
- "Oxygen Bleach".
- "OV-1";
- QUANTEX;
- "Irgafos 168 FF";
- CBS-X.
When buying bleach, carefully study the recommendations for use for tulle fabrics. Stick to them strictly.
How to bleach tulle in the washing machine?
It is recommended to bleach tulle in a washing machine with the addition of a bleaching agent to the washing powder.
Liquid bleach can be added after water has been added to the drum of the machine. A good way is to soak the tulle in a bleach solution before washing.
When bleaching tulle in a washing machine, you must follow certain rules:
- before loading the tulle into the drum of the washing machine, thoroughly shake off the settled dust;
- it is better to fold and pack tulle products in a transparent bag and in no case crumple;
- pour powder and bleach into different compartments for detergents;
- do not often use chlorine-containing bleaches, because their regular use leads to an increase in yellowness on the tulle;
- bleaching and washing should be carried out in the “delicate” mode with a heating temperature not higher than +40 ° C;
- tulle nylon fabrics should not be bleached together with cotton;
- It is not recommended to use the "spin" function for machine bleaching.
How to bleach old tulle?
The snow-whiteness of the old tulle can be restored by applying the complex of the methods described above. If the fabric is cotton, the digestion method has proven itself well.Grate laundry soap into the selected container at the rate of 100 g per 10 liters of water. After immersing the tulle in water, put on fire and after complete dissolution of the soap, boil for 1 hour. Rinse well alternately in saline and starch solution. Then the fabric will return to its former whiteness.
If it is a nylon fabric, it cannot be boiled out. Using the above recipes for using hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and saline solutions, you can get good results. To restore the previous snow-white color, it is advisable to use industrial bleaches.
When using bleach to restore the original color of tulle, follow the instructions on the package.
Features of bleaching depending on the material of the tulle
Lightweight, with a mesh or patterned structure, transparent tulle is made from a variety of materials: silk, cotton, polyester and many others. Different types of fabrics require an individual approach when bleaching.Kapron. The fabric of nylon tulle is characterized by its lightness, airiness and wear resistance. Kapron shows its "character" when bleaching. The best way to whiten is to use table salt.
Veil. This fabric has a matte sheen and is soft to the touch. Such a thin tissue is very sensitive to chemicals. For bleaching, it is better to use saline, blue, green.
Organza. This fabric has increased rigidity in comparison with the veil. It is better to use oxygen-containing household chemicals for bleaching and folk methods for bleaching tulle using starch and blue.
Microveil. The fabric in terms of stiffness occupies an intermediate line between a veil and an organza. All folk types of bleaching are suitable.
Polyester. Tulle made of this material has increased strength and softness. Hot water is not recommended for bleaching. Repeated use of chlorine-containing bleaching agents affects the durability and preservation of the original whiteness of the fabric. The most positive result is usually obtained when using saline solutions, ammonia and hydrogen peroxide.
Regardless of what material the tulle is made of, it must be washed before bleaching.
Tulle bleaching safety precautions
When using a large number of preparations and whitening products, it is necessary to adhere to very simple personal safety requirements:- use a plastic or metal enameled container for bleaching;
- perform all work with gloves;
- hydrogen peroxide and chlorinated water are not compatible, so use purified water;
- when using household chemicals, strictly adhere to the dosage indicated on the package.
Also, mixing of pharmaceutical preparations should not be allowed:
- a combination of soda and ammonia or household chemicals emit vapors harmful to humans;
- soda and brilliant green neutralize each other;
- Zelenka and hydrogen peroxide also neutralize each other.
Air curtains made of white sheer tulle have been a classic in window decoration for many years. Regardless of the material of manufacture, window curtains lose their whiteness over time due to exposure to the sun, dust, rust, and washing water salts. Buying new quality curtains is not cheap, as is washing them in dry cleaning conditions.
You should not be upset, there are many inexpensive home remedies that will help you cope with the task without spending much money and time. Experienced housewives are happy to share secrets on how to whiten tulle from dullness at home.
Chemical bleaches
The first word is about whitening products, which can be purchased without problems in any department of household chemicals. This method can be used no more than once and that is not desirable. The fact is that such preparations destroy the delicate structure of tulle, especially from natural fibers, and soon lead to strong yellowing, which is very difficult to remove.
Any washing powder or liquid laundry detergent is diluted in warm water, and three to five tablespoons of ordinary kitchen salt are added to the solution. The tulle is soaked for a period of at least 3 hours, ideally overnight. If desired, you can still stretch the curtain in the car as usual, or rinse immediately after soaking. To fix the result, salt can also be added to the water for rinsing from the powder.
The only drawback of this method is the long soaking time.
Already pre-washed tulle is blued in such images. The procedure can be carried out both manually and in an automatic machine.
With manual rinsing, after washing, the curtain is dipped into the prepared bluing solution. Proportion: half a teaspoon of the product to a bucket of water. Second rinse - no bluing. The curtain is immediately shaken and hung up.
When washing in an automatic machine, a small amount of blue is added to the conditioner section.
The disadvantage of the method is that blue particles that are not thoroughly mixed can form stains or spots. For this reason, manual rinsing is more reliable.
To prepare a solution, 5-10 drops of brilliant green are settled in a glass of water, then carefully filtered through gauze and mixed with 10 liters of warm water. Pure tulle is soaked in the prepared liquid for 5 minutes, constantly turning the fabric over.
Minus: an improperly prepared solution with sediment can ruin the fabric with green spots.
Peroxide and ammonia
This method works very well, but only for tulle made from natural fabrics. The proportions of the mixture for bleaching: 1 tablespoon of ammonia, 2-3 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide in a bucket of hot (50 - 60o) water. A clean curtain is soaked in a basin for 30 minutes, after which it is thoroughly rinsed and wringed out easily.
Starching not only makes delicate curtains whiter, but also adds shine and long-lasting shape to them.
For starching, a paste is brewed like jelly, based on each liter of water - 1 tablespoon of starch.
It is necessary to ensure that there are no lumps in the resulting solution. After washing, the tulle is soaked in starch water for 5-6 hours, dried without wringing.
Potassium permanganate and laundry soap
These products combined provide unexpectedly brilliant and long-lasting results. Tulle curtains are washed in a soapy solution with the addition of potassium permanganate, after soaking for half an hour.
For a solution, the soap is rubbed on a grater and poured with boiling water. Mix a few crystals of manganese in a separate bowl and pour into the soap in such an amount that the water becomes a little pink.
Disadvantage: for some reason, potassium permanganate has disappeared from pharmacies.
Lemon acid
A sachet of citric acid is added to the rinse for prevention when washing relatively new curtains. Can be used in a washing machine. Attention! Citric acid in the washing machine washes away all deposits of rust and mineral deposits, so it is better to clean the machine before washing the tulle.
Tulle is an adornment of our windows, once it gives comfort to the whole atmosphere in the apartment. Therefore, every housewife should know how to whiten tulle at home so that it looks rich and aesthetically pleasing for as long as possible.
There is an opinion that it is impossible to bleach tulle, I am ready to argue with this and in the article I give recipes that have already been tested by housewives. When bleaching, it is advisable to know the composition of your curtain in order to find the right recipe. Each method has its pros and cons, everyone chooses the most convenient for himself.
Salt is often used to bleach curtains, and it also gives them stiffness and sheen to the curtain.
When you have already soaked and washed the tulle a couple of times, then we make a solution: for 4 tablespoons of salt with washing powder for four liters of warm water. Let it soak for a couple of hours.
Pros and cons:
- Availability,
- economy,
- environmental friendliness,
- Completely safe for delicate fabrics
- Does not damage the structure of the fabric,
- Salt may not take the boiled yellowness if the curtain has hung for a year (situations are different).
But with the functions of maintaining whiteness when washed three or four times a year, salt will do a great job.
Soda
Baking soda is a multifunctional tool, and is used not only in bleaching curtains and things, but also when cleaning products from and.
Pour water into a bucket, it can be a little hotter (not boiling water!) And pour half a pack of soda. We soak tulle in it and leave it for a long rock. If there is a strong yellowness on the curtains, then you can leave it for a day.
Advantages of the method:
- Soda softens the water and prevents soap flakes from settling on the fabric.
- Affordable price.
- The scale of distribution.
- Environmental friendliness of materials.
- No side effects.
- Completely safe for fabrics.
Green and blue whitening
Before the whitening procedure, you need to soak the curtain in warm water for a couple of hours. When the soak time is up, drain the dirty water and pour hot new water, add powder and start washing.
If you are convinced that the tulle is free of dirt, then proceed to bleaching. To do this, pour warm water into a basin, add three tablespoons of salt and two to three drops of brilliant green and stir thoroughly.
Salt gives the tulle fibers elasticity, and brilliant green removes yellowness.
We leave the curtains in this composition for a couple of minutes, not forgetting to constantly turn them over.
We begin to prepare the solution: we dilute a couple of drops of a solution of brilliant green (brilliant green) or blue in a small container with water. If a precipitate appears, the solution can be filtered. Place the prepared solution in water for rinsing.
Pros and cons:
- Zelenka or blue perfectly refresh the curtain and set off its whiteness.
- Zelenka is in every apartment.
- If you overdo it, it will be impossible to return the tulle to its former white color.
- It is difficult to find blue in stores.
How to bleach with hydrogen peroxide and ammonia
Ammonia is great for bleaching. Many people treat him with caution, but in vain. It does not harm or damage delicate items.
Pour a jar of ammonia into a bowl of warm water and add washing powder. In the basin you need to hold the curtain for several hours. After bleaching, rinse the tulle thoroughly in several waters.
Or another way: for 10 liters of water you need to take 50 ml of peroxide and 20 ml of ammonia.
First of all, you need to rinse the dust out of the tulle, and then make a solution and immerse the curtain there for half an hour. The tulle must be completely covered with water so that yellow streaks do not occur.
The smell will be unpleasant, but the result will appear.
Use gloves.
Pros and cons:
- Gives a visible whitening effect;
- Harmless to thin and delicate materials;
- Bad smell;
- Potential to burn skin if not wearing gloves
We bleach tulle from dullness and yellowness
If you see that there is strong contamination on the tulle, then they can be rubbed with laundry soap at the time of soaking.
I don’t force tulle to boil, but grandmothers used this method.
Salt and powder
We begin to boil tulle in water, where we pour a couple of tablespoons of table salt and 150 grams of powder (you can grate laundry soap). The amount of boiling boil depends on the degree of yellowness of the tulle. It is important that the water does not boil, and the fabric is completely immersed in it. After a couple of hours, the fabric will become snow-white.
But! This method can only be used if your curtain is made of natural materials. Synthetic (kapron) curtains cannot be boiled! From this, it will become gray forever, and even be like an unironed lump.
Starch
Starch will help to cope with yellowness. In addition, it also covers the fibers of the fabric with a film that prevents dust and grease from penetrating into the fabric. Because of what, the tulle is easily washed off in the next wash and retains its former freshness.
Dissolve a tablespoon of salt and starch per liter of warm water. After soaking in a starch solution, the fabric is protected from the accumulation of dirt and dust.
The starch will help the curtain wrinkle less when squeezed and refresh the fabric, as they say, to a crunch.
Pros:
- Tulle keeps its shape
- Availability of funds
From a hot iron, the fabric loses color, it is better to steam it or dry it naturally.
Secrets of whitening nylon tulle
You can often see that synthetic fabric is mixed with natural (cotton) and hydrogen peroxide, which is an ingredient in many detergents and bleaches such as Vanish, bleaches it perfectly.
Therefore, kapron, being a synthetic fabric, will acquire boiling whiteness in solutions using hydrogen peroxide.
So in warm water we dilute 1 tablespoon of peroxide per half liter of liquid. Soak for two or three hours. And rinse well in several waters.
An effective way to bleach organza tulle at home
Organza, with its unpretentiousness, has won the love of housewives all over the world, but sometimes it requires more careful care, because. with improper care, it turns gray easily.
Organza is perfectly erased both by hand and by machine.
saline solution
Before washing, the curtain can be soaked in a saline solution. Approximately four liters need to put 1-2 spoons. Let the curtain lie in it for two hours.
Salt absorbs dirt and fumes.
After soaking, it can be washed in a soapy solution and hung to drain, because. organza cannot be injured by twisting.
Organza bleaches well with oxygen bleach. He is more gentle on these types of matters.
Due to the fact that the organza is transparent and without patterns, it wonderfully transmits light and looks very modern. If it is snow-white, then it also gleams wonderfully in the sun.
Starch
You can bleach organza tulle in a starch solution. To do this, add a couple of tablespoons of starch to lukewarm water, hold a couple of aces and leave to drain.
It is also possible to use purchased products for bleaching, but it is better to give preference to those marked “for curtains and tulle” and not ruin the curtain.
The starch helps the fibers of the fabric keep the shape of the curtain.
How to quickly wash and bleach tulle in a washing machine
The washing machine will also do an excellent job of washing curtains, but it is better to run the wash on a delicate mode and at a water temperature of no higher than 30 degrees.
When preparing the wash, you can add bleaching ingredients: after adding the washing powder, pour 10 hydrogen peroxide tablets or 2 tablespoons of liquid from the bottle into the compartment. Run a delicate wash at water temperatures up to 30 degrees.
As you can see, there are quite a few ways to support, and even return whiteness to tulle. I did not write about bleaching it with a solution of manganese, because. it is prohibited for free distribution in Russian pharmacies.
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