Any colored cotton t-shirt will work you won't have the same luck with synthetics , but keep in mind that the bleach might not turn it the color you expected! Red will usually turn pink, sometimes white. Orange most often ends up a lighter shade of orange. How do you lighten blue jeans without bleach. Epsom salt will work, give them a good soak overnight. Soak in Epsom salt and hot water then wash in homemade water. The best solution when black jeans begin to fade unevenly is simply to wash them in your washing machine with chlorine bleach to uniformly lighten the color of your jeans.
Mix one part bleach and one part water in a spray bottle. Place a plastic tarp or towel on a flat surface. Place the fabric flat on top of the tarp or towel. Bleach damages cotton too, in that it keeps reacting with the fiber even after you rinse and wash it out. So you need to deactivate the bleaching action. The simplest way to do this is to soak the fabric in hydrogen peroxide for at least 15 minutes after you rinse the bleach out. Fill large bucket or tub three-fourths full with warm water.
Once the bucket or tub is nearly full, add between 1 and 2 cups of bleach depending on how white you want to bleach your Levi's. Be sure to wear a pair of rubber or latex gloves during the entire process, as the bleach may irritate your skin.
Add one cup of distilled white vinegar to a cold water bath and soak your jeans for about an hour. Hang or lay flat to dry, and don't worry about smelling like vinegar —the odor goes away after your pants dry.
This technique locks in the dye's color, keeping your jeans dark and your furniture clean. Fill the washing machine with warm water and add about one quart of liquid bleach to the warm water.
Place the jeans in the washing machine and allow to soak for about 20 to 40 minutes, depending on how light you want the denim to be. Drain the washing machine. Steps Fill a container with warm water. The container should be large enough to fully submerge the jacket you plan to bleach a standard household bucket should be sufficient. Add bleach to the water. Immerse the jacket in the mixture. Rinse your jacket with warm water. Machine-wash the jacket as usual. Bleach would be ineffective on most shoes , and at most would create a kind of mottled grey or red outcome.
Use your darkest jeans to make the spots really show up. Fill a bucket with water and add 2 cups of hydrogen peroxide to make neutralizing solution that will stop the bleach.
Test the hydrogen peroxide on a small, inconspicuous part of the pants. If the color runs or the fabric is bleached , do not apply the product to the blood stain. Either way, layer newspapers or spread out a plastic tablecloth to protect the surrounding floor. Open a window or turn on a fan. You will get sick of hearing this, but wear rubber gloves and safety glasses!
As a really important step, let your jeans sit for about half an hour. Swish them around every so often to make sure the cloth is evenly exposed and check for your desired color.
Carefully wring out the jeans over the bathtub or basin, scoop them into something big like another bucket, and carry them to your washing machine. You can also use this method to fade only a portion of your jeans. For example, to fade only the lower legs, just place that part of the jeans in the bathtub.
Then follow the steps described here for the best results. You can use a spray bottle filled with a bleach solution to dampen your jeans entirely or create an artistic design. This method works like a charm to create a distressed vintage jeans look! Carefully pour the mixture into a sprayer.
You will probably have to refill the container several times. You may want to pour the mixture through a funnel to avoid spilling. Arrange the denim garment on your covered work surface, so you have easy access to the portions you plan to lighten. For example, if you want to lighten the knees, stretch out the legs of the pants flat in front of you.
Allow the garment to sit for five minutes. Using a paintbrush, dropper, or toothbrush to splatter bleach onto your denim clothing creates the most artistic style of all! Think of the way serial killers hang up plastic sheeting in their scary basements in TV shows.
Arrange your denim clothing in a way that gives you good access to the parts you plan to make lighter. As a pro tip, if you only want to fade the front and not the back of a garment, stuff some newspaper inside so no moisture leaks through the reverse side. Dip a brush in the mixture and run your thumb over the bristles to fling droplets onto the denim!
Just as you would with any other method, wash your finished garment in cool water and let it air dry. If you want lighter jeans without any bleach, you may want to check out the salt method. Ultimately this can make the denim lighter! Measure in two cups of table salt. Using the washing machine does prevent you from keeping an eye on how much lighter the denim gets during the process. Let the denim air dry and check how light it has faded! You can repeat this process as necessary to get the denim lighter.
You can turn jeans completely white by using the washing machine or the soaking method described above and just exposing your jeans to the bleach for a longer period of time. Keep an eye on the color throughout the process, too to see how dark or light the garment is.
Sometimes mineral deposits in your water build up in your clothing, and the baking soda will remove the minerals. It can take as little as ten minutes or as long as several hours to bleach jeans depending on the dye in the original pair of jeans and on the color you want. The longer you leave your jeans exposed to bleach, the more they will fade.
Of course, the danger is that the chemicals will eat at the fibers in the cloth if you leave the material exposed for too long. Ideally, you should test out your chosen method on a pair of thrift store jeans first. This will let you see how the pants are doing and how light or dark of a shade you can achieve.
Your goal is to get the color you want without ruining the cloth! You can also mix more water into your solution for more delicate materials such as stretch jeans. Bleach will not shrink denim jeans , but it can erode the synthetic fibers in stretch jeans, causing loss of stretch recovery.
You can use hydrogen peroxide as a safer way to fade jeans, but the process requires some extra steps and much more time. Lay newspapers on your floor in case of spills. Before you start bleaching, lay out newspapers around the area you plan to bleach. Many surfaces, especially carpeted floors, are prone to getting stained by bleach. Change into clothes you don't mind staining. Wear older clothes, like sweats and a T-shirt, that you won't worry about staining with bleach.
You could also wear an apron, if you would prefer. Wear thick rubber gloves to avoid irritating your skin from the solution. Choose a well-ventilated area to avoid inhaling bleach fumes.
Smelling bleach on its own usually doesn't induce negative health effects, but it can make some people anxious. If you feel faint, leave the area immediately and call poison control. Keep the product label nearby, if possible, to give information to poison control specialists.
Some chemicals, when mixed with bleach, create toxic fumes. Avoid mixing bleach and ammonia, or ammonia and rubbing alcohol. Fill a bucket or bathtub with one part water and one part bleach. You can mix your bleach solution in a bucket, but using a bathtub makes it easy to turn on a fan and dispel fumes. Avoid a highly concentrated bleach solution. While you may get faster results, the solution will be corrosive and more likely to burn holes in the fabric.
Experiment first. If you've never bleached jeans before, have an old pair of jeans or a patch of jean material handy. Try your solution out on your ruined jeans before you apply it to your favorite jeans. You will get a better handle of how bleach lightens jeans and whether your concentration is too strong. Different jean colors may react in unique ways. Choose a ruined pair close to your favorite pair's color for the most accurate idea. Use a bleach pen as an alternative.
If using straight bleach makes you squeamish, you can also opt for a bleach pen these are available at most stores. Bleach pens won't create a quite as natural look, but they involve less clean-up and are applied more easily.
You can also use a bleach pen to draw intricate designs or words onto your jeans. Part 2. Dampen your jeans. Bleach will dye materials better if that material is already wet. Dampen your pair of jeans in cold water before you work on them. The jeans don't need to be soaking wet, so wring them out if they are dripping water. Dab the bleach on with a sponge, paintbrush, or spray bottle. If you want to create patterns on your jeans, don't just put your jeans in the bleach solution. Instead, apply the bleach using one of several options.
For even, large areas, use a sponge to dab the bleach on. For a splattered effect, use a paintbrush or toothbrush. Apply the bleach to the brush, then rub your thumb back across the bristles to achieve a splattered effect.
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