Cleaning Tips |

Wrinkle Release Spray or Fabreeze:

How to use:

1. Place garment on hanger or flat surface
and spray from 6-8 inches away.

2. Smooth away wrinkles with your hand.

3. Hang until dry or tumble in dryer for 2
minutes for quick drying.

Recipe:
Fill a spray bottle half way with fabric softner, then rest with water, spray garmet, hang up and a couple tugs and wrinkles out. I just use the cheapest softner at dollar store.

Fabric Softner

Instead of fabric softener, add a 1/2 cup of white vinegar to the rinse cycle for softening clothes the natural way.

Homemade Spray Starch
Boil 1 Cup of water (I used my tea kettle)
Mix 1tsp of Corn Starch with a little water (about 1/8 of a cup)
In a bowl mix the hot water and corn starch mixture together whisking constantly. Let cool and pour into a spray bottle that has mist setting on it. Empty body spray bottles works good. Use as you would regular spray starch. The spray starch only lasts a few days so throw out leftover after a couple of days.

How to Starch With Sta-Flo Concentrated Liquid Starch

Instructions

Fill the spray bottle half-way with Sta-Flo liquid starch. Add water to the bottle and fill the bottle the rest of the way up. If you aren’t comfortable with eyeing the measurements, add 1 cup Stay-Flo liquid starch and 1 cup water to the spray bottle.
Put the spray gun top back onto the spray bottle and screw it on tight. Shake the bottle to mix the starch concentrate with the water.
Spray an even layer of the watered down starch concentrate onto a garment or fabric craft. Spray on enough starch to make the liquid fully soak the fabric. Set the wet starched fabric down onto the ironing board and press it flat with a hot iron.

I‘ve completely eliminated the need for dryer sheets. I was a firm lover of these until I found that I could take aluminum foil, ball it up, and toss it in the dryer with the wet laundry. It removes static and never has to be changed. I’ve been using the same aluminum foil ball for over 6 months. This tip came from the following website.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/comment-of-the-day-aluminum-fo-1-116049

Make More Heat
To make ironing easier and more energy efficient, add a piece of aluminum foil under your ironing board cover . The foil will help hold heat and allow you to iron more quickly or on a lower temperature.

Line-drying your clothes can save you about $85 a year

Bleach Alternative: Add a half cup of lemon juice to the rinse cycle of a medium load of whites, according to Annie B. Bond’s Home Enlightenment. Or, try a half cup of Borax.
Fabric Softeners: Add a quarter cup of baking soda to the wash cycle, Greene recommends.
Color Brightener: Toss a capful of vinegar in with the detergent, writes Michael DeJong, author of Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing.
Static Cling: To fight static cling, a quarter cup of white vinegar in the washer should help, Greene says.
Fabric Refresher: In between washes, freshen your clothing with a spritz of dilute vodka. The smell will dissipate, green living expert Brian Clark Howard says, and your clothes will be ready for another day out.