White marks on clothes

Dustykitten

Toxic_Lemon wrote:

The white marks could be the salt from sweat? Washing powder may not remove it properly.

No mine are at the bottom of the top on the outside and under the arm on the inside so sure it is deodrant.

catz747

Toxic_Lemon wrote:

The white marks could be the salt from sweat? Washing powder may not remove it properly.

Do you know if there is a way to wash it out?

stilernin

I have this problem too on some of DS's darker coloured T shirts. I think in my case it's my iron being too hot for the fabric and marking it somehow because often the marks are vaguely iron shaped


Frugalfairy.......... do you have a steam iron? The marks you describe sounds like a build up of scale which can be released when you use the steam function.

Dustykitten

Yipee the white vinegar worked. Poored it on neat, gave it a tiny rub as the fabic is quite delicate and put it through a regular wash. Now it has dried and the marks are gone. I so love white vinegar:D

davetaylor

Can anyone help?

I have a good quality washing machine. I use quality washing powder and lenor.

Anyway, recently, I have come to the ironing phase and have found white "water" marks on some of my cloths. In particularly on dark clothing.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.....

Sagz_2

I had this when the machine wasn't heating the water to the right temp

larmy16

Hi, I had this problem sometimes when using powder with dark items of clothing. I think sometimes the powder just does not disperse properly.

I now use the washing liquid from Lidl in the pink bottle and fabric conditioner and it works out much better. My darks clothes though tend to only need a freshen up as such, not stained.

I still use the powder for light clothing.

chocolate.orange_2

I found that when H was 'helping' and put the washer on a quick wash that tends to happen. So maybe its the length of program rather than the temp ?

beemuzed

Could you be puting in too large a load so it's not rinsing properly? It'd show up more on dark clothes.

Pink.

Hi davetaylor,

There are some ideas on this older thread that may help:

white marks washing

I'll merge your thread with that one later to keep all the suggestions together.

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