I LOVE white sheets. They just feel so luxurious. The only thing I don’t like about white sheets, they seem to go yell0w and it’s hard to get them clean. What’s a girl to do???
BLEACH: No way! I don’t like the smell of bleach. Not to mention, bleach completely degrades the fibres of the cotton sheets over time.
So what to do?
I had a really bad yellowing problem with sheets, and I discovered Borax (20 Mule Borax). The recipe is as follows:
put your white sheets into the washer
1/2 cup Borax (into the laundry tub of the washer, not the dispenser)
Wash as you normally would.
They should come out beautiful and white.
So for the issue I had, they were REALLY yellow! The yellow was from the oils from the skin and head. I soaked my sheets in hot water, with a dissolved mixture of:
1/2 cup Borax
a few good squirts of Dish soap – breaks down the grease
and a cup of wash detergent – your usual brand
I soaked overnight. Then, I washed on the hot cycle.
They came out beautiful, clean and WHITE again!
One other tidbit, is that I used white vinegar for the rinse cycle. It makes the clothes soft and fresh ( no vinegar smell!).
Let me know if this works for you!