A clean and tidy shirt not only represents your dress state at that time but also reflects your usual attitude towards life.
White shirts often have stains on the collar and cuffs, which some may think are rubbed, but are actually caused by protein and sebum from sweat seeping into the fabric.
If the neckline, armpits, and cuffs are not cleaned in time, the dirt and subsequent decomposition products will turn the white shirt yellow.
For renters, clothes are often packed in plastic bags and cartons, in which phenolic modifiers and antioxidants are unstable and may migrate to the surface of the fabric, in which case the clothes will turn yellow.
So how to clean the white shirt to make sure it is clean and white?
1. The shirt must not be washed until it is dirty.
It should be washed after 1-2 days at most.
If you wear or leave it for too long, the stain and sweat will stubbornly adhere to the shirt, and it will be very difficult to wash back the original color.
Cotton shirts are generally recommended to be hand-washed in cold water and pinched gently, not twisted or rubbed vigorously to protect the shirt fabric and maintain color so as not to cause deformation.
If you choose a washing machine to wash the shirt, you should choose a soft washing method, such as rinsing or weak washing, and put the shirt into a special washing bag to prevent winding and reduce wrinkles.
The dehydration process should not be too long, up to 30 seconds, or choose not to be dehydrated.
2. Be sure to wash separately, because the white shirt is easy to dye, don't leave it overnight before washing.
You should take it off and soak it before washing, otherwise, the stain is more difficult to remove.
Before washing, first, use a warm water bubble, do not add too much detergent when washing, this can ensure the degree of cleaning.
If the clothes are stained with pigment, you can add chlorine bleaching agent, so it can be removed more effectively.
3. The best way to wash a white shirt is by hand, it is best not to use the washing machine, the washing machine is easy to stay in the watermark.
If you wash it with washing powder, you must soak it in clean water.
4. If the shirt turns yellow or dyed with other colors, you can try to add hydrogen peroxide to the water.
Stir the shirt evenly at a ratio of 1: 10 and soak the shirt, but you can also use 84 or bleach.
Of course, you should control the time and follow the instructions.
5. After washing, do not wring dry and do not expose it to the sun, so as to keep the shirt straight.
The drying process should also be gentle and gentle, do not twist the shirt too dry, should bring water to dry, and flatten the lapel, collar, and sleeves of the clothes with your hands.
Cotton shirts are folded in half and spread out to dry, or use a drying basket to reduce tension.
Chemical fiber shirts do not need to be wrung out, dry directly, and choose clothes to rack as wide as the shoulder to prevent clothes hanger marks from being left on the shirt.
6. The washed shirt needs to be ironed in order to be smooth and wrinkle-free and achieve the best wearing effect.
Pure cotton and linen shirts are set to high temperature, wool and cotton blends set to medium temperature, polyester, rayon, nylon, and silk using low-temperature settings, and shirts of special materials.
Such as silk shirts, that can not be directly ironed, dry towels that can be used to gently smooth slightly wet silk shirts, or portable clothing wrinkle removers that can be sprayed evenly on the wrinkles of clothes.