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  2. Do You Actually Need to Sort Your Laundry? Experts ... - AOL

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    By color: Separate colors into darks, lights, and whites to prevent darker colors from bleeding onto lighter ones. This also allows you to use bleach on white items if necessary.

  3. Stain removal - Wikipedia

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    Stain removal is the process of removing a mark or spot left by one substance on a specific surface like a fabric. A solvent or detergent is generally used to conduct stain removal and many of these are available over the counter.

  4. Stripping (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    In textile processing, stripping is a color removal technique employed to partially or eliminate color from dyed textile materials. Textile dyeing industries often face challenges like uneven or flawed dyeing and the appearance of color patches on the fabric's surface during the dyeing process and subsequent textile material processing stages.

  5. Dry cleaning - Wikipedia

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    It takes 10–12 minutes after the loose soil has come off to remove any ground-in insoluble soil from garments. Machines using hydrocarbon solvents require a wash cycle of at least 25 minutes because of the much slower rate of solvation of solvent-soluble soils. A dry cleaning surfactant "soap" may also be added.

  6. 7 Best Laundry Detergents for Black Clothing - AOL

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    Ariel Revita Black All-in-1 Laundry Detergent Pods. OxiClean Color Boost Color Brightener plus Stain Remover Power Paks. OxiClean Dark Protect Laundry Booster. Perwoll Color Liquid Detergent.

  7. Laundry - Wikipedia

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    Laundry is hung to dry above an Italian street. A self-service laundry in Paris Laundry in the river in Abidjan, 2006. Laundry is the washing of clothing and other textiles, [1] and, more broadly, their drying and ironing as well. Laundry has been part of history since humans began to wear clothes, so the methods by which different cultures ...

  8. Melt and pour - Wikipedia

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    The meltable base is usually naturally rich in glycerine, a by-product of saponification that has humectant and emollient properties, whereas commercial soap bars have often had this component removed. As with the rebatching method, it can be considered a misnomer to refer to the melt and pour process as soap making. The process has much in ...

  9. Colour fastness - Wikipedia

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    It signifies the textile's ability to endure repeated washing without experiencing fading, bleeding, or other undesirable alterations. The washing fastness of the dyed material is determined by factors such as the solubility and rate of dye desorption from the textile material into soap , detergent , or different alkaline conditions.