No need to soak it in bleach and hot water, here's a trick for washing yellow and moldy pillows using 2 kitchen ingredients

foto: YouTube/MS Designs

The cause of pillows turning yellow and moldy could be damp room air or wet hair.

Brilio.net - Using the same pillow too often has the potential to make it dirty quickly. Not only the cover, but the main part of the pillow can also become dirty or even yellow. In some cases, pillows that are frequently used and rarely dried in the sun can become moldy, you know.

Basically, there are several causes for pillows to turn yellow and moldy. One of them is because the room air is humid. Apart from that, wet hair while sleeping also increases the potential for mold to grow on the pillow that is being used.

The appearance of yellow stains and mold will certainly make the pillow less comfortable to use. Apart from making you sleep soundly, the stains that appear from mold can also cause health problems. Reporting from hunker.com, mold on pillows can cause respiratory problems and allergy-related health problems, such as itching and skin rashes.

So, in order to prevent this from happening, you must always wash your pillows regularly. However, if the pillow is already yellow and full of mold, you need special washing tricks to make it clean and comfortable to use again. Usually some people will wash pillows with bleach. Apart from that, there are also those who choose to soak the pillow in hot water.

However, instead of using bleach and hot water which has the potential to irritate the skin, there are other cleaning agents that are safer and more effective, you know. Well, a YouTube user with the MS Designs account once shared a trick for washing yellow pillows using kitchen cleaning agents, you know.

Reported by BrilioFood on Monday (12/2), the kitchen ingredients in question are baking soda and vinegar. So, these two ingredients will later be used separately in the trick process for washing pillows. However, the function of both is the same, namely to remove yellow stains and mold on the surface of the pillow.

photo: YouTube/MS Designs

So, to use it, just prepare the spray bottle first. After that, pour 1 glass of clean water into it. No need to use hot water, you just have to rely on regular water or room temperature. Next, pour 3/4 cup vinegar into the bottle. If so, close the bottle and shake until mixed evenly.

photo: YouTube/MS Designs

Before ready to use, sprinkle baking soda on the yellow and moldy areas of the pillow. Then smooth it with your hands. When it is even, spray the vinegar and water mixture onto the stained surface of the pillow. Make sure you do this process evenly and that the pillow is wet.

photo: YouTube/MS Designs

Next, dry the pillow in the sun for approximately 60 minutes. So, exposure to sunlight will maximize vinegar and baking soda in disguising yellow stains. Not only that, sunlight also helps kill mold on the surface of the pillow.

photo: YouTube/MS Designs

If it has been dried in the sun, you can rinse the pillow. While rinsing, rub it a little with a brush to make the pillow cleaner and shinier. After that, rinse again until the pillow is completely clean. Finally, dry the pillow until dry.

So, this dry pillow can be used immediately again. Because the yellow stains and mold have disappeared, this pillow becomes even more comfortable to use. Apart from being effective, this trick for washing pillows also tends to be practical and energy-saving even if you don't use a washing machine.

(brl/tin)