Yes, you may wash your pillowcases around once a week, but how about your pillows? They may become discolored and yellowed over time. And when that happens, luckily there’s a way to restore them to their clean, white glory. One Good Thing by Jillee shares a miraculous laundry bleaching solution and technique that works like magic on dingy pillows.
While we sleep, we sweat out. In order to maintain a temperature that is appropriate for us, our bodies frequently need to excrete some waste. It’s not very pleasant to think about, we know.
But think about this. All that sweat, dirt, old makeup and everything else you can imagine is absorbed by our pillowcases and on our pillows. No wonder they get so yellow and dingy! They are in desperate need of not only bleaching, but disinfecting as well.
Jillee’s method is incredibly simple and only requires a few cleaning products, most of which are probably in your laundry room right now. Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
Materials
- Really hot water
- 1 cup of laundry detergent
- 1 cup powdered dishwasher detergent
- 1 cup bleach
- 1/2 cup Borax
Directions
– Fill your washing machine about 1/3 full of hot, hot water.
– Add your dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent, bleach, and Borax.
– Turn on the machine and allow the ingredients to dissolve in the water.
– Place your pillows in the washing machine (she does two at a time to balance the washer). After letting the hot water in the machine fill to the full level, give it a few minutes to agitate. In case your washing machine is top loading, you might need to remove and flip the cushions.
– Allow the pillows to go through two rinse cycles.
– After both cycles, take them out to dry, which will vary depending on the type of pillows you have.
Jillee suggests that you do not have to take the pillows out to flip them around halfway through If you are using a front load washer. The only reason she did this was to make sure the mixture covered the whole pillow, but front loading washers will be rotating the pillows on their own.
When it comes to drying your pillows, the method will depend on the pillows you have. Down or feather pillows should be dried on an air cycle, while synthetic pillows should just be dried on a low-temperature setting. To keep your pillows nice and fluffy, Jillee suggests using dryer balls. If you don’t have dryer balls, try wrapping some tennis balls in clean socks and tossing them in with your load!
Give it a try now!
Source: Simply recipe
