How to whiten clothes, linens and fingernails with Oxiclean. Yep. It does it all and this little experiment with a sweaty pillowcase will show you just how well it works.
What you are witnessing is an illusion. Like heat waves on the pavement, a rigged carnival game or any 25 year old girl's Instagram profile pic.
The pillow case you're looking at looks like a thing of beauty, blowing in the breeze in a tranquil backyard. Gathering up the heat of the day, drying to a fresh, crisp swath of fabric ready for a good night's sleep.
It is not.
It is a horror.
Years ago THAT was the fella's pillow case. The fella is my ex boyfriend/husband/partner whatever you want to call him. And he head sweated on that pillowcase for years. A beautiful 100% handmade linen pillow case from Rough Linen stained with 2 years worth of head sweat, drool and nightmares. After 2 years my pillow case on the other hand had remained clean and white. Like the pillowcase of an angel.
I know it's hard to believe judging by the picture above but believe me. That pillow case was a mess in that photo. The problem with my particular front load washer is the fact that you can't use bleach in it. Ever. Also, you should never use bleach on linen.
Also bleach has a tendency to yellow clothes over time. In fact because of this whole front load washer not accepting bleach I started using this solution to keep my white facecloths clean (which as you'll see if you read the post works incredibly well).
That left me with quite a dilemma. So I did a little research (as I am want to do) and discovered that Oxiclean will whiten whites, but isn't the same as bleach. It's a chlorine free bleaching agent. It whitens by some kind of magical oxygenating process.
The active ingredient in Oxiclean is actually sodium percarbonate, (a sort of powdered form of hydrogen peroxide). Water is what activates it, releasing oxygen and then the product decomposes into water and oxygen.
Oxiclean also has a few other things like filler and soda ash, but the real worker in the situation is the sodium percarbonate, which you can buy on Amazon but at the time of writing this post it's sold out. If you feel like ordering it and experimenting try this link to see if it's become available again.
Because of all of these things (no chlorine, environmentally friendly, gentle but effective) it can be used safely on linen.
So I bought some Oxiclean with absolutely NO hopes of it actually working. Because let's face it, most products that claim to do something amazing usually do very little other than produce very convincing television commercials.
This is NOT a paid post. Nobody asked me to do a post on the miracle of Oxiclean. I wish they had. Because I will now and forever sing the praises of Oxiclean to anyone who will listen.
Behold the miracle of Oxiclean ... I soaked the left side of the pillow overnight, leaving the other half of the pillowcase out of the solution. That way I would know EXACTLY how much the product worked.
Holy crap is right! I didn't do any magical lighting trick, or Photoshop shenanigans. It is not an illusion. THAT is the difference Oxiclean made on the head sweat pillowcase.
Which means all those white tee shirts with yellow arm pits you own aren't a lost cause. There's another Oxiclean now, Oxiclean White Revive which I haven't tried because the regular Oxiclean works for me.
In the past few years I've even started using it to clean my hands when they're a disaster and stained after weeks of gardening. I just mix a tiny bit up in some water, soak my fingers in it for a minute then scrub them with a nail brush.
This is DEFINITELY an off label use for Oxiclean and since it's basically powdered hydrogen peroxide you probably don't want to soak your hands very long, but it works to remove soil stains around nails and nail beds which are almost impossible to get clean otherwise.
Oxiclean for linens, clothes and hands ... so you too can look like the angel you are. Or even better, you can look like the angel you aren't.
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Wow! It really worked. I had tried chlorine bleach before with no luck . Thanks so much.
Christy
Why did my white cotton shirt turn blue in Oxyclean and how do I get it out?
Jm
Oxiclean works! I just washed 10 undershirts and every single one came out brand-new. Follow the directions but soak for 24 hours, that's the key and then just wash as normal.
Gwen
I have a question, is it ok to us oxic degent to gown my old wedding dress clean
Mike
I have a linen duvet cover with coffee and major cat barf stains from the other day. Soaked in oxy for a few hours in the bathtub, washed in cold, dried gentle, looks like new! Oxy did an epic job. Thanks so much for the tip!
Jeff
oxy type products are derived from hydrogen peroxide, which is chemically very nearly water, in fact a survival tip, you can drink it if you're stranded, and have a first-aide kit with it, but run out of water. i use it on my white work clothes, it removes fat, blood, etc. like magic. see peroxide dissolves proteins. which is why it works on most stains very well, in first-aide it dissolves the proteins in bacteria, and dead tissue, so it's good as an antiseptic agent.
KD
Can I use Oxyclean on clothes that have color? I have a white and black stripped sweater I'd like to wash & whiten (the white has gone a bit yellow due to improper storing) and I don't want the black to fade.
Diane
I tried oxy clean several times and it's never worked. I guess if you have pit stains and head grease, it's wonderful. But I don't have those problems. Most stains I can remove with Fels Naptha or just rubbing in a little laundry detergent, so I've tried it on the stains that those won't remove. It has never worked. Not once.
Johnson
Same issues happened with me before on my linen cloths after that one of my friend suggest me to use a oxiclean to whiten a linen cloths it was an amazing experience for me.
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My man accidentially mixed his beige linen blazer into the dryer with gum in the pocket. (It usually g3ets dry cleaned so I don't know how this happened). But I froze it and scraped the gum off but there were a few pink stains. I soaked it in oxyclean and all the stains came out... however there was one place on the arm where I place a lot of oxuclean and pre-soaked it overnight. Now it has a slight discoloration of a pinkish on this beige blazer. It is his favorite deoes anyone have any ideas how i can get the discoloration out that was caused by oxyclean? Can I dye linen maybe? I appreciate any help, im new at all this. Thanks! :)
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You had me at "holy crap". Lol I'm also trying to get my pillowcases clean. I stupidly let my husband use the "show pillows" at night and now they have sweat shadow.
Karen
Yeah. Men have sweaty heads. Try the oxiclean. It really did work great. (now I use it allll the time). Double up on the dosage and give it a double soak. ~ karen!
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Karen, another tip for you. Sometimes the oils on a pillowcase won't whiten because it is an oil. I love Dawn dish detergent. First I scrub the pillowcase with dawn and rinse it good, then launder it, many times using oxiclean. I figured if Dawn can get the oil out of duck feathers (hazard from an oil spill) then surely it can take the hair oils out of a pillow case!!! Love your blogs!!!!
Zoe
Been waiting to do this forever - moved house - have a bath where the plug works - oxicleaned my lovely white dressing gown and all the coffee stains etc are now gone and it's back to it's glorious white!! I <3 oxiclean.
Karen
Isn't it great when something actually does what it says it will do?! ~ karen
Tanya
Also, has anyone dared to soak clothes in warm or hot water that have instructions to launder in cold or gentle? My mom with dementia has not been washing her clothes (except underclothes) for maybe years. I'm horrified after going through her closet and inspecting each item. But a lot of the items have instructions to wash in cold water. Frustrating!
Karen
Most laundry tags say wash in cold. There are two reasons for this. Cold water is easier on fabrics and hot water makes things shrink or lose their shape. Hot water will shrink cotton, ruin wool and cause certain synthetic fibres to go limp. But honestly, I wash all my clothes on cold now, so I'd make a bet that washing them in cold water would do just fine. ~ karen!