Question????
Okay, I admit, my Question of the Week has turned into Question Only Sometimes? I’d ask for forgiveness, but I’m sure you understand. This time I have an ever practical question that needs to be answered.
Do any of you remember the old commercials about “ring around the color” in the 1980′s? I remember them, but don’t remember the treatment for said problem. Hubby’s wardrobe is being seriously diminished at my lack of laundry savy. What do you wash your dress clothes in and how do you get rid of the dreaded Ring Around The Color?
I currently wash with All Free and Clear in cold water (saves energy, but I’m starting to think I need hot water?) and dry them on low before hanging up his pants and shirts. I am not a domestic godess (obviously) but I need to play one in real life.
Any advice? Please?
Tags: laundry, ring around the color
You are so funny! ring around the colar! I believe that was a clorox ad but I could be wrong. I use one scoop of oxi clean powder in our whites, which I wash on warm. It’s great for getting out stains. Cold water is great for not bleeding colors together in the wash, but warm water gets the yuck out!
I also tumble dry our clothes on low unless it says line dry.
Hope that helps!
I read on Heloise once that a thinned out Dawn dish liquid formula, applied to the collar, rub the collar fabric together, and wash with like colors in warm with normal laundry soap is supposed to take the dirt ring from the husbands shirts out. I wash all colors in cold unless heavily soiled. I line dry all of our stuff, easier on the textile fibers. Towels and linens are the only thing I throw in our dryer. IKEA sells a GREAT clothes dryer that collapses to take up very little room when not in use. Sometimes no matter what I do, that neck ring does not come out. I have tried a fingernail brush with the dish liquid to scrub it lightly too. Of course that depends on the textile…cotton, synthetic, etc… good luck!
The commercial was for Whisk.
That said, Oxi-Clean gets poop stains out of diapers. I’m sure it can get ring around the collar out.
I believe the commercial was for Whisk.
If your washer has a delicate or gentle cycle use that otherwise set it for low or medium agitate and spin.
To get stains out of the collar try pretreating the area and letting it sit for 10-15 minutes before washing. You can use something like Spray-n-wash or Shout or you could even put a little of your regular laundry detergent on the area and rub the collar together.
Cold water wash should be okay (it does save energy and todays fabrics and detergents are made for it) but if you continue having problems with white dress shirts you may want to do them as a separate load in warm water with just a little bit of bleach (try 1/4 cup to start depending on the size of the load and the fabric content of the shirts). Another trick I remember my mom using to get whites clean and bright was to hang them on the line really early in the morning (or even the night before) so the dew settles on the clothes and then let the bright sun hit them. Of course, this may or may not be a good solution depending on the bird population in your yard. Good luck.
The product was Wisk . “Ring around the collar? Wisk around the collar! ” I believe any laundry detergent put around the collar and pre soaked should work. Unless he’s a lumber Jack of course!Good Luck!
It was a “Wisk” commercial. I posted one on facebook for you. But I think soaking in oxi clean would work. However if the shirts are worn, have been washed and dried a lot, the heat from the dryer may have set them in enough that the stain will not come out. Good Luck!
I would make a paste from powdered oxi clean and add a little Tide. Work it in. I like to use an old tooth brush. Let it set a little while and then wash in warm water with a cold rinse. This should take care of your problem unless it has been ‘baked in’ by already washing and drying before pretreating. Good luck.