Clothing and Laundry Tips
Is Your Skin Sensitive to Laundry Products? Before I get down to my favorite laundry products, let me briefly tell you a something that happened to my daugther. My daughter went through a period of having extremely sensitive skin. She would break out with random skin rashes, hives, and other breakouts. In the beginning, we…
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How to Make Laundry Day Easier What is it about laundry that makes it one of our least favorite chores? I mean, it’s fairly easy to put the clothes in the washer and then transfer those clothes to the dryer, right? We can pretty much walk off and do other things while the clothes are…
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Caring for Sports Jerseys If you have athletes in the family, chances are they come home with some degree of dirtiness on their jerseys. These jerseys are the ones they will be wearing for the sports season and possibly longer so it’s good to know how to keep the clean. For sports jerseys to look…
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Removing Grease or Oil Stains from Clothing My kids have always been a little accident prone when it comes to getting food from their plates all the way to their mouths. Those little drips and drops of greasy gravy or oily salad dressing at dinner time are becoming a bit of a family joke –…
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How to Remove Deodorant Stains Removing deodorant stains from clothing caused by sweat or perspiration is a job that should be treated as soon as is possible. Most deodorant stains look white or yellow. Getting the stains out depends on a number of factors: The amount of deodorant that was used, the chemicals in the…
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How to Clean Leather Shoes While some people prefer not to wear leather shoes because they’re made from cowhide, leather shoes can be an economical choice. Properly cared for, leather shoes will last a lifetime. You may have to get them resoled, but the shoe itself will wear beautifully. Cleaning leather shoes is not that…
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How to Remove Ink Stains from Leather Leather is a great, durable material for shoes, for purses and for furniture. Ink stains are among the most common and the most annoying stains on leather items. You might have left a pen in your purse and it exploded, the ink soaking through from the inside. Or,…
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How to Get Blood Stains out of Clothes Blood stains can be a real pain and if you have kids, you know how wild and reckless they can be. So, it’s no surprise when they sometimes come inside with a scraped knee, bloody nose or scraped elbows and hands. After cleaning up the kids owie,…
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10 Tips for a More Efficient Laundry Day If you’re like most of us, dirty clothes seem to pile up faster than we can get to it. You wash a load and before you know it, there’s another load waiting to be washed. Whether you have a family of 4 or 10, it just doesn’t…
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Cleaning Cloth Diapers Congratulations on your new little bundle of joy. Choosing to go with cloth diapers or disposable diapers is a personal preference. If you do choose cloth diapers it will mean you have extra laundry and it may seem that washing them sounds a little gross but there are benefits. One, you’re not…
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