Adding aspirin to your laundry can do wonders!

Even with the best laundry detergents and wash cycles on modern washing machines, it’s nearly impossible to make sure white clothes stay white. Luckily, there’s such a thing as aspirin, and you’ve probably already got that in your medicine cabinet!

It sounds weird, but it works!

Dull

Even if you use those laundry detergents that promise you your white clothes will come out whiter than white, you can’t avoid greyish spots and yellow armpits. With every wash, white clothes seem to become duller and greyer. So, how do you stop this process? It’s very simple; all you need is a type of medicine everyone probably has in their medicine cabinet. The only thing you need to make sure your laundry comes out perfectly white again is five aspirin tablets of 325 milligrams each.

Aspirin

Put the tablets in a large bowl or tub of hot water to let them dissolve. Stir this aspirin water until all of the tablets have completely dissolved. To make sure the tablets dissolve faster, you can also crumble them up before putting them in the water. Next, place the dull, white clothes in the bowl or tub with the aspirin water and leave them to soak there for eight hours. You can also just add a few aspirins to the washing machine, but the soaking method works better. After you’ve let the clothes soak, you still have to wash them in the washing machine like you normally would.

Want to know how to make sure dark and coloured clothes keep their colour properly without going dull? Go to the next page for a handy tip involving black pepper!

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