Can you get a not so white saddle cloth back to white?

[Gingernags]

I bought a white saddle cloth about a year ago, used it once and when I went to wash it, it went all funny blue/grey stained even though there was nothing coloured in the wash (we think there is a rogue sock under the drum or something...

Can it be bleached or something back to pristine white? Any ideas how to do it if so?

(Can you tell I'm not utterly domesticated...)

 

[KatB]

You can buy some stuff to put in the wash with whites to take out stray colour? Should be able to find with washing powders, otherwise soda crystals work well. Doin't bleach, you will kill it!!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

If it is cotton a mild bleach solution should be fine. Just make sure you then wash it before using again.

 

[Super_Kat]

I'd just buy a new one.........Much easier

 

[samp]

Sorry to steal your post, but how do people's breaches stay so white or beach? I wash mine straight away and can never get any marks out of them. Yety everyone else seems to walk around immaculately turned out

 

[flyingfeet]

Vanish Oxiaction is very good, as said above you can also get something designed for whites that got mixed with coloured.

I spray my jods with vanish before putting the wash, but they do have faint brown patches

 

[Tempi]

i spray mind with vanish before i put them in the wash and ive had them over a year now and they are still pretty white. they do have a couple of little marks that dont come out but you cant really see them. i always make sure i spray them and put them in the wash as soon as i get home.

 

[Sparklet]

Try vanish soap bar and a scrubbing brush for the little marks - guarentee they will come out.

 

[filly190]

If it was new and this happend after first wash with nothing to affect it, I wonder if you were sold a second.

I have bought clothes, first wash and a stange mark has appeared before.

I would have a go at whats been suggested, the vanish products are really good.

 

[Dovorian]

Ditto Vanish on any clear marks but if the colour has gone a generally 'grey' tone, try using a colour run remover or similar product - usually near the washing powder at the supermarket! It is a sachet you pop into the machine, worked very well on some white towels I'd almost ruined.

 

[Sparklet]

We sound like a load of 1950's housewives.

 

[Tierra]

I keep the vanish pre-treatment spray and the in-wash powder in the house purely for bandages, boots and numnahs

My white bandages / boots are done every single day which tends to be the key to keeping the damn things clean. Anyway, echo what the others say and go stock up on a lot of vanish products!

 

[Weezy]

NAPISAN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Vanish is good but those us us who have had children always sing the praises of Napisan or a similar product that I think was called Glo White. Napisan is from chemists & Glo White you would get from Wilkinsons etc, it's for bringing net curtains back to whiteness. Thses are also good for bringing white jods back to their full whiteness after getting saddle stained in the rain at shows