5 Tips To Keep Your White Shirts White

White shirt is classic but it’s hard to keep it white for a long period. Knowing how to wash a shirt is an essential part of taking care of it. We’re sharing 3 tips on how to prolong the life of white shirts in your wardrobe.

• Use hot water
  Once you have the white clothes ready to go, check out the care labels and figure out the hottest water temperature the clothes can take. Water around 120 degrees is the most effective for washing white clothes, but you need to take some specific fabrics into account. Not every material will tolerate the hottest setting on the washing machine, like delicate linen, which will probably need a lower wash temperature.
• Don’t overload the washing machine
  Another common mistake that keeps your white shirts from looking perfect is the tendency to overload the washing machine. Of course you wish to throw as clothes as you can into your washing machine. But clothes need to circulate around the machine to get clean. If you fill it to the top, the detergent won’t have enough room to interact with the soil on your clothes. As a result the cleaning performance won’t be as expected.
• Always measure your detergent
  Underusing and overusing detergent can leave the fabric gray. Adding even a little extra detergent will make your white shirts look dull, did you know that?
  Stains get trapped and don’t wash away like they should when you don’t measure the detergent precisely. You should just follow the instructions on your bottle.
• Pretreat stained areas
  Similarly, you’ll want to pretreat clothes that have stains. To remove perspiration and other greasy stains, pretreat the garment with liquid detergent, dishwashing liquid, or a colorless shampoo using a clean toothbrush. To tackle food stains or underarm yellowing, apply undiluted liquid oxygen bleach to the fabric immediately before you put anything into the washing machine.
• Consider drying your white shirts outside Dry white fabrics outside, if you can, because the ultraviolet rays from the sun will help to brighten and whiten the garment. You can as well put them in the dryer on a low heat setting and let them air-dry the rest of the way. Excessive heat may cause stains and make your clothes yellow.

These and several other tips are very important for the professional service provided by O’Dry Cleaners. We are always ready to help you maintain the white color and perfect appearance of your white shirts and other clothes.