Javelle Water
I wonder if you tried the oldfashioned Javelle Water? I think it never fails, and it is so easy to make at home. Just leave half a pound of chloride of lime to stand in 2 quarts of cold water overnight. Dissolve 1lb. washing soda in a quart of boiling water, and when cold, add to the lime water, which has been well strained through muslin. Mix equal quantities of this Javelle Water and fresh water, and soak the clothes for a few hours. Then boil or wash the clothes as usual. Use only on white clothes, as it is a bleach. : Another and easier method, is just to dissolve a quarter-pound of chloride of lime in a gallon/of soft water, and soak the clothes in that for an hour or two. Then wash in water containing a oe vinegar, to neutralise the lime. One woman, when using this method for a badly mildewed cloth said she saw the mildew disappear before her eyes,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 219, 3 September 1943, Page 19
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166Javelle Water New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 219, 3 September 1943, Page 19
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