Whites are the toughest clothes to keep looking crisp and clean, with our crazy lives full of work, school, play, pets and messy meals. Check out these tips for cleaning your white clothes: Always, always, always sort Even if you’ve washed your favorite pair of blue jeans twenty times, there’s always the chance that dyes […]
Dry cleaning costs can vary from one location to the next and may also depend on exactly what you’re having cleaned that day. Recently, you may even see dry cleaners offering outstanding deals due to drastic decreases in the number of people who opt to have their clothes dry cleaned on a regular basis. However, […]
We’ve all heard the horror stories of clothes coming out of the laundry looking like they’d fit a cat instead of the person they should fit. Worse still are the stories of clothes coming back from the dry cleaners that way. But does dry cleaning actually shrink clothes or is it something else? In general, […]
Dry cleaning is a cleaning process that does not use water. It got its name from Jean Baptiste Jolly, in 1885, when his tablecloth became cleaner after kerosene was spilled on it. He had a dye-works company in France, but offered a new service of dry cleaning. Today, dry cleaners mainly use a synthetic solvent […]