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I washed my roommates comforter with Tide and now there is a TON of soap scum stains..... ?

and i HAVE to get them out.helpehelphelp.:)i heard vinegar might work?

Answer:

Put the comforter back in the washer, fill it with water warm usually will work best, use no soap this time, add 1/2 cup white vinegar when the washer fills up and let it run through the cycle, this will break up the soap scum on the comforter and leave it smelling nice and fresh. A little tip for you add 1/4 cup white vinegar to every load at the beginning of the wash cycle with your laundry soap. This will help break up any remaining detergent in the clothes so that they come out cleaner and fresher. Laundry detergent and fabric softeners leave residue on the clothes and can make them look faded even if they aren't the vinegar breaks up and washes away the residue and the laundry detergent that you are using, which makes the clothes cleaner and fresher. I do this every load now and my clothes have never been fresher.
Yeah, vinegar will work --- pour about 1/2 a cup into the wash basin while water is running, then put the comforter in. Wash it in hot water and once the cycle is over, wash it again with hot water. The only reason it did that is because there was left over soap scum in the washer and the comforter wasn't able to agitate away from it. Good luck!
your washes may not be big enough to handle the comforter to let it agitate really good and that is the problem you may need to take it to laundry mat to put it in a Big Boy washer so it will have room to get good and clean good luck hope this helps you out
Take it to the laundromat use the double load machine use only about a half a cup of vinegar no more soap. It was probably too big for your machine and couldn't rinse properly.
Was the comforter really crammed into the washing machine? It sounds like there wasn't enough room for it to agitate and properly rinse. If that is the case, and this will probably be a huge pain, but laundromats usually have a few jumbo size washers. You could take it there and re-wash it. That's my first thought. My second thought is, is the comforter actually washable or is it a dryclean only one? Sometimes weird things like that happen when it's dryclean only. And my third thought, if I am out to lunch on the first two suggestions is that you may have put in too much Tide. If that is the case, wash it again....and again.....and once more just for fun. Hope this helps!!!

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