How To Strip Your Laundry

Lately, I’ve had a few emails asking how to give sheets a really deep clean without toxic chemicals.

When it comes to removing build-up from body oils, minerals, supermarket detergent or fabric softener, and that stubborn grime that tends to cling to towels and bedding over time this DIY tip may be just what you need!

To strip your laundry you don't need to rehearse a scene from The Full Monty but you do need a bath tub, borax, soda ash, laundry powder and hot water.

Casper the cat was removed from the bathroom before the hot water was run :)

Laundry stripping isn't new by any means, back in the day it was more common to hot soak towels and sheets to give them a good clean however it's had a resurgence of late.

Here's how to strip your laundry using Green Goddess products

Seperate out your colours and strip similar colours together, don't throw them all in at once as the colours can run with the hot water.

This is done with CLEAN items .. it's amazing what comes out when they look clean going in!

Fill your bathtub up with hot water

ADD:

1/4 cup Green Goddess Premium Borax

1/4 cup Green Goddess Premium Soda Ash

1/4 cup Green Goddess Laundry Powder of your choice.

If using regular laundry powder you will need 1/2 cup.

Stir until completely dissolved.

Submerge your clean clothes, sheets or towels in the tub and soak until the water has cooled stirring occasionally. This will take about four hours.

When cold drain out the water, collect your items and put them through a rinse/spin cycle in your washing machine. For whites add a 1tsp Green Goddess Bluing Powder to a cup of warm water and add to the rinse when the tub is full for extra whitening powder. Dry on the line in the sun if possible.

Enjoy your newly stripped items.