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Show JS FARM and HOME mm TAT AGRIC01.TTJIUL OOUXO KOTKMOH StRTICS By Mary Lois Reichert HOME LAUNDERING No one detergent suits all home laundering tasks- The kind of fabric, fab-ric, its colorfastness, amount of soil and hardness of the water used all help create a demand for different types of thse cleaning clean-ing agents. A new bulletin entitled "Detergents "Deter-gents for Home Laundering" has just been issued by the U. S. Department De-partment of Agriculture, according to Rhea Gardner, Extension home management specialist at Utah State Agricultural College. Mrs- Gardner says it emphasizes that four types of detergents are available to homemekers. These are unbuilt and built soaps and unbuilt and built synthetic detergents. deter-gents. The unbuilt products are well suited to laundering lightly soiled fine fabrics. They do not contain alkaline chemicals, sometimes called cal-led "builders." The built soaps and synthetic detergents do contain con-tain alkaline chemicals. These help increase sudsing and cleaning action ac-tion and soften hard water- They are best suited for washing heavily heav-ily soiled' fabrics. Mrs. Gardner says that for laundering laun-dering wool, silk, or blends of these with other fibers, home-makers home-makers should use unbuilt synthetic syn-thetic detergents. For fabrics of cotton, linen and manmade fibers, if white or colorfast, use either soaps or synthetic detergents. They may be unbuilt for slightly soiled materials, built for those more heavily soiled. If fabrics are not colorfast, or if you're not sure, use unbuilt synthetic detergents. For general laundering and for heavily soiled fabrics, use built soaps or built synthetic detergents, deter-gents, Mrs. Gardner says. Built synthetics are most efficient in hard water. All types are suitable in soft water. |