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"  When you&amp;#039;re using liquid or fabric softener sheets, the concentrated softeners can build-up on your clothing and even leave spots, making clothes look yellow and dingy. You can remove the spots by wetting the fabric and rubbing bar soap over the stains and then washing the clothes in the warmest water they can bear. Here&amp;#039;s a trick we use here at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute to remove residue: We strip the clothes by washing a large load of whites with 1 cup of Calgon Water Softener and 1/2 cup of ammonia and no detergent. Whether you have a front or top-loading washing machine, when you&amp;#039;re washing whites, or any other type of load, for that matter, you should never fill the washtub to the top. When the machine is overloaded, there isn&amp;#039;t enough room for the detergent to interact with soils and give optimal cleaning performance. Keep in mind: A small load fills the washer tub 1/3 full, a medium load 1/2 full, and a large load 3/4 full. Wonder how hotels manage to keep their white towels so white? You&amp;#039;ll be fascinated to know that a hotel in Mahwah, New Jersey actually does three separate washes, the first with just laundry detergent, the second with just fabric softener, and the third with just bleach. Now you may not have the time or energy for a 3-step process, but after you&amp;#039;ve done a wash with detergent, if you run a quick wash cycle with bleach alone you&amp;#039;ll really whiten your whites. And remember you may not be able to keep up with the hotels, because they get rid of their towels after they&amp;#039;ve been used for a month. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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