How to whiten or lighten jeans at home?

Fashion is a very capricious lady with a changeable mood, and it’s not always possible to keep up with her. For a short period of time, today's topical models can be replaced by a completely opposite cut. To always be in trend, you need to have a decent financial situation, or ... a little imagination and knowledge!

As for jeans, fashion every new fashion season presents surprises. Today there is a classic in fashion, and tomorrow - military, today the print in the form of holes is relevant, and tomorrow - divorces. How to decorate ordinary jeans yourself so that they can not be distinguished from the store model?

Light jeans are becoming more popular, especially those models that have uneven color. With the help of chemicals, you can independently decorate a new product, or give a new life to jeans long abandoned in the far corner of the wardrobe. Let's take a closer look at how to do this.

In order to lighten jeans with white or other means, you need to pour water into the container and add bleach to it. When you put jeans in it, stir them with a wooden stick or with gloves of thick rubber. Watch carefully for color changes so as not to miss the shade you want.

. If the jeans have not changed their color, then you may have caught the whiteness of inadequate quality or the concentration of the active substance in it is less than what is stated on the label. In this case, gently add some more bleach to the solution and continue to monitor the color.

In order to make light streaks on jeans, you need to lower them into a container with a solution of whiteness in a twisted state. It is important to note that the more the jeans are twisted, the smaller the size of the stains To achieve the strongest effect of the place, the twists should be fastened with clips, and to obtain vertical patterns, the twist of the jeans trousers should be firmly fixed with elastic bands.

After achieving the desired result, jeans should be thoroughly rinsed in running water, and then washed with regular powder in a washing machine.

Compared with acrid whiteness, brightening with hydrogen peroxide will give a slight effect. You can soak jeans in water with the addition of peroxide, and you can add it to the compartment for washing powder during washing. Do not worry about the safety of your washing machine, hydrogen peroxide does not harm it.

Regular baking soda also gives a light brightening effect that can be enhanced by repeating the wash.

Unlike hydrogen peroxide, jeans should be washed with soda only on your hands, because it will negatively affect the drum and other internal parts of the washing machine.

The active components of cleaning products for bathrooms and toilets are also quite capable of making jeans lighter. To do this, dilute ½ cup of concentrated product in three liters of water and leave for some time for clarification.

Once the desired result is achieved, the jeans should be rinsed thoroughly. A significant disadvantage of this method of bleaching is the strong smell that comes from the product. It completely disappears only after at least three washes with a fabric softener.

Lemon is a popular natural bleach, on the basis of which they make skin lightening creams, clean nails and etch dark hair. Its properties may well be used when changing the color of the fabric. To do this, jeans should be soaked in a strong solution of lemon juice or citric acid, and leave for some time.

Also with lemon solution can be washed in a washing machine - machine. He not only does not harm her, but on the contrary, he will clean scale from the heating element and remove plaque from the internal parts of the machine.

The “boiled” model of jeans, which was the most popular in the 80s of the last century, once again conquers fashion tops. Today, it can be bought without problems in the store, unlike the deficit USSR But if you still want to pay tribute to the time and make them yourself, it is not at all difficult to do.

For this you will need:

• White;
• Water;
• Volume enameled container (basin or bucket);
• Rubber gloves;
• Wooden or plastic paddle for mixing;
• The jeans themselves.

To prepare the clarifier, it is necessary to dilute the whiteness in the tank (at the rate of 1 cup of whiteness per 7 liters of liquid), and put it on fire. When boiling the solution, we lower the previously twisted tight jeans into the water, preventing them from floating to the surface. For this, a wooden stirring device prepared in advance is perfect.

In order to make an interesting decor on boiled jeans, there are several simple ways:

• Stars can be obtained by making clips on the fabric with ordinary clothespins. It is better to take wood, because of them when boiling does not stand out the paint, which can paint the jeans;
• To receive thin straps jeans should be twisted weakly, for wide - much tighter. It is best to fix with a colorless rope so that it does not shed into the solution during boiling;
• You can lighten only one leg, or only the upper part of jeans. To do this, we lower the necessary part into the solution, and keep the rest of the product dry during the entire clarification process.

As soon as the water with the jeans starts to boil, we note the time - at least 10 minutes, the maximum - choose yourself, depending on the desired result.

After that, remove the jeans from a bucket or pelvis, straighten and rinse under running cold water. It is advisable to dry them in the open air, so that all the chlorine odor disappears.

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• For lightening it is better to take jeans from a classic denim blue or blue, because it is on these models will get the best result.

• In order to make a gradient pattern, you can use a sponge soaked in bleach of different concentrations.. Alternately, treat the areas of jeans according to the print, leave for some time, and then rinse thoroughly. The result will exceed all your expectations!

• You can make plain pictures using citric acid. Pick up the stencil pattern, and brush it with a solution of lemon, paint it on the fabric. If you want to make a drawing on one side of jeans, then between the legs during work you must put a rubber pad or a thick layer of cellophane.

• Using a spray bottle, you can get a very interesting print. Of course, it will not be possible to achieve a clear color border, but you can safely experiment with the intensity of clarification.

• In addition to bleach, You can lighten denim areas with ordinary emery paper, sticking out jeans in the right places. But with this method, the marked places become vulnerable, and in a short time there will probably be holes on them.

Since the work on bleaching jeans involve the use of chemicals, it is important not to harm their own health and the health of others. To do this, follow the elementary safety rules.

Remember that whiteness is undiluted dangerous! If it comes into contact with the skin, it can cause a chemical burn, and if you inhale its vapors, you can get a strong poisoning. Therefore, when working with it, try to carry out all the procedures in the absence of children in the room, since the immature organism is most susceptible to the components of the bleach. Always wear heavy rubber gloves.

When working with hydrogen peroxide, remember that it is very flammable, so do all the manipulations away from open flame. If peroxide gets into the eyes, it can seriously damage the cornea, so make sure that splashes that may get into the eyes do not fly from the solution during work. If it still happened, then they should be washed with running water for at least 15 minutes, and then immediately consult a doctor.