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so today I want to do what is one of my
most requested videos which is how do I
keep my white clothes clean and how do I
do laundry in general so I just want to
share with you some of my tips of course
I have my own lifestyle so I wanted to
ask you guys for your tips too so over
on Instagram some of you guys gave me
some really awesome tips that I want to
share because we all have different
things different reasons that we wear
our clothes in our life like some people
have dogs or kids or specific jobs that
might see more stains than others but
for me I have no kids but I do have a
white fluffy cat that likes to get his
white fluff on anything so I try to wear
only like light-colored clothes and then
otherwise I'll wear fabrics that don't
attract pet hair so like a silk for
example is great so whenever I buy
something that's a little bit more
expensive especially anything white I
like to pretreat it when it gets here
and this even works with shoes for like
any cotton canvas type of shoes so
Scotchgard is what I do to pretreat
anything like that it says you can also
use it in in furniture I haven't done
that but this has been really good I
heard about this actually a long time
ago in a Jennifer Lopez movie and it was
just like a way to make sure that that
your clothes stay white and clean and
prevent a lot of things from happening
like things will get dingy you will see
stains sometimes but this is a great way
to prevent that so when you do have
something to spot clean then what I do
is I use this blue Don dish soap
I have tried the off-brand kinds and
those work just fine just the same but
only the blue stuff seems to work when
it comes to using a dish soap what I do
is if something has like a stain on it
right away the sooner the better you can
treat it is the best so I'll I'll run
over to the sink and get some water on
it and then I will use just like one
little dot of this on it no matter how
big the stain is
the stuffs so concentrated that I only
really need like a little dot so then I
just rub the fabrics together and kind
of create a foam just really try to work
that in and then I just rinse it out and
then I'll either like hang dry it or if
I'm like really in a pinch I'll try to
like dry it with my hairdryer or
whatever but that's how I treat like
almost any stain the only stains that
are kind of tricky is something that has
an oil in it like one time I dropped an
avocado on my skirt and I never could
get that one back
I have tried things like chalk to kind
of absorb oils stains and that I worked
okay but I haven't really solved that
one out if you guys have any tips for
that let me know because I would love
you for life if you could tell me that
but the sooner you can treat a stain the
better and that goes even when you're
traveling when I was at Disney World is
a perfect example because my self tanner
in the heat of the day had really rubbed
off on my beautiful white shirt the one
that's actually pictured in my cover
photo of my channel and that photo was
actually taken after I got the stain on
it so testament to how good this trick
worked when I realized that that had
happened and the stain was like all
inside and even on the outside of my
shirt I'm just covering it this
beautiful white shirt with a stain I
went over to the sink and I kind of did
the same thing I did with the blue Dawn
dish soap only instead of this I used
one of those little facial bars of soap
so I got it wet and I scrubbed that area
really good just with as much soap as I
could handle scrubbed it together rinsed
it out and then I just hung it up to dry
so that at least it would get a chance
before I would wash it like a week later
when I got home and then by the time
that I got home washed it let it air dry
the stain was completely gone so that
was just a really cool way where I was
able to save my shirt and I'm so
thankful but yeah anytime you can get
something treated right away is the best
thing so I have some laundry tips too
when it comes to white clothes I always
wash all my
fights together but I no longer wash my
socks with that load so even though I
have white socks they don't go in the
whites load they go in with like the
towels and stuff I learned that in
college when everybody was doing their
laundry in one location and we were all
sharing tips and that was like one big
thing that I was doing wrong and so ever
since then my whites have been a lot
cleaner because I haven't been throwing
in like dingy socks with them so yeah
that was really cool so when I do wash
my whites my white load I will put
bleach in but I put that in at the
beginning without any detergent why do
that is because I've read that detergent
and bleach won't necessarily make your
clothes extra white when they're working
at the same time they'll just kind of
combat each other and then your clothes
won't be as white so some people like to
put in their detergent toward the end of
the wash instead of right away if you
just have to have detergent in there but
for me I just really think that I'm fine
with just the bleached like bleach has
its own cleaning properties in my mind
so I just kind of wing it with that and
no one's ever told me that I have stunk
after a bleach wash I actually really
like the scent that bleach has maybe
that's just very weird I think it's just
like it smells like a clean hotel room
so another topic that I want to cover
when it comes to laundry and stains is
pit stains and those stains that you get
around the collar of your your shirts
like your dress shirt Zak had one that
he had for years that was tailored to
fit him properly and we really didn't
want to just give it away or like have
to buy a new one to replace it with and
it was really almost past the point of
giving it away it was like just you know
we were like well we put in the money
for this let's just see if we can save
it so what we did is again we used blue
don dish soap with a toothbrush you can
also use like a scrub or grout brush or
something that you have on hand that
will scrub it in really good create a
paste with water like a foam I guess but
then you also can sprinkle in either
borax which is really good for laundry
or
baking soda and just create a really
good paste that you can leave on for
like 30 minutes if not longer and then
just rinse that out and wash it that got
out all of the stains so that worked for
the caller mostly I think we also worked
on pit stains with that you could try
that and it's just kind of something
that you can do repeatedly as much as it
needs so have a few things that I also
want to include in this that aren't
necessarily laundry tips but just things
to remember so first of all you might
want to try an ivory instead of a white
sometimes I prefer that I think on
certain skin tones
especially you might feel like you look
better in an ivory versus a starch white
stark white color
I actually really like ivory the problem
is if you do want to bleach it or really
get in there you're not going to be able
to as much as you could with a white
shirt I would also say that not everyone
is going to inspect your clothes as
closely as you are so maybe just take
comfort in that fact that you know maybe
those that those pants are that shirt
that you invested a lot in that's white
they might get a little dingy with age
and that's okay really because they're
not going to go up there with a color
chart and try to see like if your pants
are exactly white all the way across
you know those terrible commercials for
whitening your teeth where they're like
doing the napkin test I actually think
that's that would be like the rudest
friend so don't go running around a
people with napkins trying to see how
white their clothes or teeth are so I
just think that that's something to
remember is that you know maybe the
clothes that you really love have seen
better days but it doesn't mean that
they necessarily look dingy to other
people and also I when I'm doing laundry
I don't necessarily wash every single
thing after every use there's a couple
reasons for that
one is I don't have a washer and dryer
in my home so I actually have to make
decisions I'm like what I'm going to
wash when I have to carry it out of my
home and stuff and the other reason is
because washing can really damage your
clothes after time and drying especially
drying them
and so you kind of have to think about
that too like if you really love a piece
or if it's very delicate
it might do better with less washes you
can always do the sniff test if that's
really what you want to do see if any as
we washed okay next I want to get to
Instagram where you guys left your own
advice and comments about how to take
care of your clothes I just briefly
scanned through these already and they
were really good so I want to read them
so the first one is all my white tees
have those terrible armpit stains I
think that natural deodorant is quite
the culprit yeah so I use the natural
deodorant - I don't know necessarily if
I've noticed a big difference between
natural deodorant and the more aluminum
kind for pit stains but I'm sure there's
definitely something to that especially
if you're using an antiperspirant like
the one that makes you not sweat that
would definitely lead to that I'm sure
okay next is soaking in OxiClean use the
oxy clean stain remover gel and let it
soak on the stained areas I let my white
sit overnight and agitated OxiClean in
hot water and I was amazed at how white
everything came out I haven't used oxy
clean in years but that's like a really
good idea and I like the idea of like
having it in hot water overnight I bet
you that it's really good okay so this
person actually responded to the
original comment about deodorant and
says that I wear Schmidt's deodorant and
it stains all my whites - all my white
tees so yeah I guess stay away from that
one then line dry in the Sun it's how I
kept my kids cloth diapers white it
works on everything if it can keep baby
poo stains at bay it can do anything
also a pre wash paste of baking soda
hydrogen peroxide and salt on a stain
especially underarm stains does wonders
though I don't get under I'm stains now
that I don't use aluminum based
antiperspirant okay so she actually uses
more natural and so that's the opposite
of what I thought I'm excited to hear
your tips more than half of my tops are
white and I can always use new ideas
well thanks so yeah um that's really
that was a lot of good tips for sure
line drying in the Sun that's something
that I have done with regular clothes
like not whites and that was a mistake
but I bet you a whites do really good
because the Sun like bleaches the
clothes also the pace seems like a
really good idea I'll have to try that
one my personal tip is not buying them
haha I just can't keep anything looking
remotely white personally okay so I
would say then to go with more of an
ivory okay it's a Dawn dish soap and a
good old toothbrush scrubbing I guess
I'm not the only one there I'm serious
you guys like there's nothing like this
stuff OxiClean soak another one for
those I use old fashioned glycerine
laundry bars for stains it works great I
used to use a felt naphtha bar and I
don't know if that one is the same type
but I used to do that more like I would
great my own laundry to laundry soap and
like mix it in with borax and it would
create like this giant ten gallon bucket
of laundry soap that cost me like two
dollars and you can definitely do that
but it will make your clothes kind of
more dingy or not dingy but it kind of
fades the colors a little bit if you
guys are interested in that I'll try to
find the recipe I use for that if you're
just really trying to save some cash
because that that really helped me save
a lot of money another one for only wash
with other whites washing with any
colors can make them look dull seconding
OxiClean run in a sink of warm water and
let his soak works well on my yellowed
linen dress wash only with whites and
line dry in the sunshine ok so there's
really something to the line drying in
the sunshine thing I just don't have a
place to have dry things in the sunshine
but that's more of a personal problem I
think okay guys well I hope that this
video is really helpful and if it was
give this video a thumbs up and if you
have any questions or your own advice I
would love to hear them and it doesn't
have to be just about whites it can be
about any sort of like color washes or
anything like that
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