Every housewife faced the question of how to wash shirts correctly. Beautiful and well-groomed clothes always speak in favor of a woman and her family. You can tell a lot about her ability to keep the house in order by the way the man, children and the hostess herself are dressed.
Shirts for office workers and businessmen are an indispensable part of their wardrobe. It is impossible to imagine the image of a business person in other clothes, the suit is always accompanied by a monophonic model. Not only employees of firms and banks appreciated this item of clothing. Students, service workers, housewives and the elderly all wear shirts and all sorts of shirt variations. It is comfortable and always stylish. Most manufacturers are famous for the naturalness of fabrics. In the summer, you can wear a shirt with jeans or shorts, this is a wonderful summer look. Business suits and casual jackets go well with models of different styles.
Constant wearing of a thing requires proper care for it. Washing shirts is an essential step in maintaining a presentable appearance of the product. Wear is inevitable, but with the rightcare can minimize it.
How to wash shirts in the washing machine?
Washing will not be difficult if it is done in a washing machine on certain modes. This applies to colored and dark things. Light products and especially white ones require a lot of effort.
If after washing you expect to get a shirt in perfect condition, you need to go through three steps:
- preparing laundry;
- soaking;
- washing.
Preparation
Before machine washing shirts, they must first be prepared. The first and most important rule that every woman knows is the separate washing of colored items and whites. Shirts usually have a cotton structure, which is easily affected by coloring pigments.
Studying the label
Each item has a label on the inner seam on the left, which indicates the details of caring for it. This information should be carefully studied, it contains icons on clothes, the decoding of which will tell you whether the item can be machine washed. In the process of care, you must strictly adhere to the manufacturer's recommendations, this is the only way to keep the product looking fresh for a long time.
Treatment of difficult stains
Often things can have complex stains, mostly greasy traces of food, coffee or tea accidentally spilled on a thing, a greasy collar or sleeves. Before washing, addition altreat them with soap or powder. A thing with stains requires mandatory soaking. This will increase the washing time by 20-30 minutes.
Today, manufacturers of powders and detergents offer a lot of options for stain removers. They can be in powder form, as a solid bar of soap, or liquid. Each hostess selects a remedy based on her experience. You need to be very careful with the use of additional drugs: they can harm the colored thing. Before use, you need to make sure that the product is applicable to this thing and will not harm it. Is it possible to use the tool, the icons on the clothes will also tell you, the decoding is given below.
Before placing the product in the drum or pre-soaking it, be sure to button the shirt with all buttons.
Washing different items requires different temperatures. Recommendations for how hot the water should be for washing are indicated on the label. Before washing shirts, it is better to check the washing temperature. Usually it is not more than 40 °C.
Washing
Washing routine is of great importance. If you are not sure which of the modes to wash, it is better to select the "Delicate" mode. So you can not worry about undesirable consequences such as breaks. Another secret in washing colored and black clothes is the choice of powder. Dry mixes are very poorly washed, sometimes they simply do not have time to dissolve. Black clothes are very prone to white stains. This spoils the result of the whole work. After washing with ordinary loose powder, it takesextra rinse. It is better to wash dark and colored things with liquid means. They wash out of the fabric very quickly and leave no residue.
Rinse and spin
After the washing process is completed, the machine will enter the rinse and spin mode. It is important here not to allow excessive drying of things. Spinning should be done at low speeds. Too dry fibers are stretched and can be deformed. The fabric of the shirt is quite delicate, its thickness is small. For particularly delicate fabrics, it is best to hand-spin or stop washing before spinning.
How to hand wash a white shirt
Washing white items requires special diligence. You can do this with a washing machine or by hand. But it is worth remembering that the white color is very changeable. If you set the washing machine mode incorrectly, then the cotton shirt from snow-white can turn into gray.
It doesn't matter which method you choose, machine wash or hand wash. The shirt needs to be soaked. If there are stains on the fabric, then they must first be removed. To do this, you need to apply the tool and wait. Do not buy aggressive stain removers, they can damage the fibers and make them thin. The effect can also be the opposite: the thing will turn gray.
Mistresses all over the world know a lot of tricks on how to get rid of stains on white things. For example, you can use toothpaste. She needs to treat the stain, rub the paste a little into the fabric and wash it off after fifteen minutes. The paste must be white, without crystalsblue or green.
Another tip for removing stains from white fabrics is to treat stained areas with a mixture of 50 ml of hydrogen peroxide and four tablespoons of liquid soap. Leave the shirt on for forty minutes, then rinse. You can start washing it.
Soaking
Many washing machines have a "Soak" mode, this will speed up the washing process and will not require additional effort. If this function is not provided, then the item must be placed in a bowl of warm water and apply stain remover to the stained area.
Also, a pre-soak is recommended before washing whites, including shirts. To do this, dilute soap or powder in water and immerse things in it. 15 minutes is enough for soaking. It may take a little longer to remove stains. Greasy places should be rubbed well with a brush.
There is a little trick that all housewives need to take note of. For the best effect from soaking, you need to add a few drops of ammonia to water and 1 teaspoon of s alt. This will enhance the effect.
What do the symbols on the product label say?
All items contain a small reminder in the form of a small inner patch. The information provided on the tongue contains information about the manufacturer, fabric composition, care instructions.
Before washing shirts, you need to study the composition of the fabric. Usually shirts are sewn from 100% natural fabrics. But options for a low content of polyester are possible. It prolongs the life of the product and facilitates it.ironing. A ratio of 95/5% is quite acceptable for products such as shirts. This fabric is best washed at 40 °C.
So, a drawn bowl with waves containing numbers is a symbol of the temperature regime of washing. Wash within the specified degrees. Under such a sign there may be one or two lines. This means gentle washing and delicate, respectively. Such recommendations indicate that the product cannot be wrung out at high speeds or it is forbidden to wring out at all.
Many people wonder how to wash silk. Definitely by hand. The fabric is prone to stretching. On products made of silk, satin, cambric, organza, chiffon, there is always a sign - a hand immersed in a basin of water. This warns that the item can only be washed by hand. Washing temperature 40 °C. If there is a machine icon in a circle, this also prohibits automatic washing of things. So, before washing silk and other delicate fabrics, you need to make sure that the detergent does not contain aggressive substances. It is better to clean the fabric with a gel or soap diluted well in water. Powder stains may remain on natural silk and fabrics imitating it.
If a crossed-out basin is shown, this indicates that the product cannot be washed at home and dry cleaning is recommended. The triangle icon indicates that such activities are allowed for this product and chemical bleaching is allowed. If the sign with the letter C is inside, then chlorine-containing products are suitable for the product, and three lines on the rightfrom the triangle chlorine is prohibited.
Dry-cleaning of shirts is done only in case of heavy soiling. It is usually difficult to remove stains from berries, machine oil or chocolate. It is worth contacting only those services that give a guarantee for their work. If handled incorrectly, the item may be damaged.
A circle in a square indicates that spinning of different intensity is possible. If it is crossed out, then you can only wring it out manually. So, a linen shirt can stretch if you use the spin at high speeds. A pair of lines under the square - a delicate mode of washing and spinning. It's just that the sign of the circle indicates spinning in the machine, the crossed out symbol prohibits automatic spinning.
Drying shirts
Dry men's and women's shirts away from heating appliances. Drying should occur as naturally as possible. A well-ventilated room or balcony is an ideal place to dry any clothes and linen. To facilitate the ironing process, you need to dry the shirts on a coat hanger. This will avoid additional creases in the fabric. So, a linen shirt is very difficult to iron, and in no case should it be overdried during the spin cycle.
A blank box on the label means tumble dry or vertical. If it is crossed out, then it cannot be dried in the machine. The positioned horizontal line indicates that drying should only take place in a horizontal position. Three lines in a vertical arrangement suggest that the shirt must not be twisted. The lines in the corner of the square prohibit drying in the sun.
