Coffeenoobie Senior Member Joined: 11 Dec 2011 Posts: 2,317 Location: PNW Expertise: I like coffee
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Posted Tue Feb 5, 2013, 11:10am Subject: Cleaning my coffee rags
I did not want to buy cafiza or other coffee cleaner to just to do laundry. So, I just spent some time googling the ingredients in Cafiza Espresso Cleaner and it turns out you can use Oxiclean for the first active ingredient 20%, laundry detergent for the 2nd 5% and washing soda for the last 5%. I am going to presoak some of my tan (was white now coffee stained) coffee rags. Then I will probably do a bleach wash.
disodium carbonate, compound with hydrogenperoxide (2:3)
sodium dodecylbenzenesulphonate,
sodium carbonate
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Coffeenoobie Senior Member Joined: 11 Dec 2011 Posts: 2,317 Location: PNW Expertise: I like coffee
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Posted Wed Feb 6, 2013, 2:54pm Subject: Re: Cleaning my coffee rags
I never had much trouble with whites till the espresso fever started last year. A bleach load every so often was enough to keep my towels and sheets on the white enough for me side of the color scale. Probably not blindingly out of the package white but clean looking. The coffee rags and towels never seem to look clean after a while without an intense bleach soak. I am not fond of doing that.
My best friend swears by Oxiclean so I have some on the shelf just never used it much. My oxiclean is old but it seems to be foaming up. I am soaking some rags and towels in it now for a few hours then I will wash normally with all 3 items in the wash. I did a clean but stained cloth, a freshly stained cloth, one with color trim on it. Also some towels and socks to round out a load. I should have marked the 2 cloths to tell what was old and what was new staining. Oh well, next time. They are presoaking now, I will probably do that for a few hours before I wash with all 3 items.
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Posted Thu Feb 7, 2013, 2:56pm Subject: Re: Cleaning my coffee rags
Oxiclean is Sodium Carbonate that has has O2 added to it by exposing to peroxide. Washing soda is Sodium Carbonate only and it is getting very hard to fine where I live, it used to be on every store shelf but now it is gone, replaced by Oxi Clean. There is a source for it though, I had a hard and long search for it when I need pure Sodium Carbonate. Go to a swimming pool store and pick up some Soda Ash, it is 100% Sodium Carbonate, just a different name.
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