Spray Starch

[Janice]

I spray starch my husbands pants for work. He wears Docker type pants with a lab coat. He works with chemicas, so he doesn't wear expensive clothes.

My problem is, when I iron navy or dark pants, the starch from the can gets all over the pants and white residue stays on the pants and I have to wipe it off with a wet cloth. This goes on with his entire pants.

Any suggestions?

[O Town]

I know there are liquid starches you can buy. Maybe you should try that and see if that works. We used to use it at the dry cleaners I worked at and it works well. They also sell it at my publix I bought it for various science projects I was doing for the kids so I know it is easy to find.

[O Town]

Oh, if you didn't know you add it to the water while washing your clothes at the last cycle kinda like fabric softener.

[Janice]

Oh, thanks. I will check it out.

[Miss Mary]

There's also a white mesh iron cloth, that you can put down between the item you're ironing and the iron (they sell them Target, Wal Mart, etc.). You have to keep repositioning it though. I wish they would make this type of cloth but with heavy duty, heat resistant elastic. So you could just put it directly on your iron and iron away.

I use this cloth for dark pieces.

I used to use Sizing, a step down from Starch. But now I just use steam heat on the iron and a spray bottle of water for stubborn wrinkles.

Good luck Janice.

Mary

[Stephanie]

I use spray starch as well, especially for my shirts, just for alittle "crispness". I found that my IRON was mostly the root of my problems with the white streaks, etc. I had to buy a new iron a while ago and it was made to prevent the steam holes from clogging up.

[ericinmia]

Magic Sizing workes really well...

Used it for years, highly recommend it!

[Miss Mary]

One more tip! Years ago I used to use those shiny ironing board covers, with teflon. I think my iron was picking up that substance and it was building up on my iron, re-distributing it onto my clothes. Now I buy only cotton ironing board covers and still use that ironing cloth for very dark pieces of clothing. One tip with these cotton covers - after washing them in your washer, don't put them in your dryer, just put them on damp, that way they won't get too small for your board and also when still damp, you can stretch them better, getting out all the creases.

Back to white spots on clothing!

[TexasStooge]

I never used spray starch before.

[azsnowman]

As you know, I'm a STARCH freak...especially my dress blues for the PD, I use Magic Premium Starch with "Patented FibrEnhancer".......it does NOT flake and turn white,guaranteed As I said, I am a FREAK about clothes being starched, I'll take 'em once in awhile to the dry cleaners to have them professionally done and "triple starched".....they put the creases in the shirts and pants.

[Janice]

Thanks, I will look for it in our stores. We usually carry all the brands the US stores carry.

[southerngale]

Like Miss Mary, I just use a spray bottle of water and it works fine for me. I got sick of starch getting all over the clothes, sticking to the iron, etc. It doesn't give you the crispness, but I like my clothes soft anyway.