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Adding salt to washing machine. Combine the Epsom salt and essential oils if using for scent in a glass jar and shake well. This is safe for both regular washing machines and HE machines. Hard water leaves behind deposits of calcium and other minerals that can corrode pipes and fixtures make laundry dingy and form rings in the bathtub.
According to DIY blog Apartment Therapy the easiest trick is to add a tablespoon of salt to the load. Luckily theres such a thing as aspirin and youve probably already got that in your medicine cabinet. Simply fill your washer with cold water add 14 to 12 cup of salt and then add your clothes.
Use a measuring cup for precise measurement. Unless you can break the bonds of Sodium Chloride apart at the molecular level youre just pouring salt into your washing machine. Rock salt and essential oils.
Rub salt onto a fresh ink stain on fabric and soak the fabric overnight in milk. Epsom salts in the washing machine can cause rusting inside the washer worst case scenario. Add 1 cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle or one-half cup salt to the wash to help hold in colors.
Add 1 cup of table salt. It will also act as an exfoliliant to get out tougher stains you may have to let your clothes sit for a while longer by stopping the cycle on the rinse cycle so that all of the salt is absorbed fisrt. Submerge the clothing in the saltwater solution before the first wash.
It can also cause more minerals to be deposited in your clothes from the salt because salt isnt a softener best case scenario. Fill a bucket or tub with 1 gallon of water. I add one cup of this Laundry Softener Crystals to my Homemade Laundry Soap and mix it all together using the same amount of laundry soap as I usually do.