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What laundry additives do you use to keep your Gis white? Ours are looking a bit grey and I would rather revive than replace them.
This is why I use blue Gis!
There's a Vanish thing that's good for whites.
I solved this by buying a black gi. Blood doesn’t come out of white and if you bleach it it ends up tearing
Also, breaking your leg helps keep em clean 🤣
Bleach 🙂 although by the time it's needed that level of attention it has normally developed perma stink and its time to consider replacement
Back when I trained in a gi, they got the hottest wash my washing machine could do regularly.
Not every time, maybe once every 4 washes, it'd go in at the 90 degree cycle.
Seemed to do the trick.
I sometimes used white vinegar too, which helped with stuff that couldn't be boil washed (rashguards and the like). That really helped with the worn in stank you get with man made fibres.
Also, get the thing out of the bag and into a wash straight away. Letting them fester in your gym bag doesn't help.
This is why I use blue Gis!
Where are you training Bob?
What laundry additives do you use to keep your Gis white?
My wife.
(I do all the cooking but do the laundry wrong every time, apparently.)
Leave to soak, for a few hours, in a bucket of water with Vanish powder and then finish in the washing machine.
Target with vanish rub in the common areas of neck, knees etc and any blood spots. Soak them overnight in vanish then as hot wash as listed will take. Usually buy a little bigger as most do shrink a little bit.
Most importantly wash it after every session, don't think "ach I didnae sweat too much tonight I'll nae bother" as that's when they do start to smell. Rotating kits can help as well though as I'm off the mat for 6 months with a shoulder injury its kind of immaterial