What is Starch & Sizing?

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Hello I'm Donna Beth Joy Shapiro on behalf of expertvillage.com and today I'm gonna show you how to iron a shirt. So like a shirt that is half poly half cotton you can't use starch you need to use sizing, it does almost the same thing you don't get as stiff in appearance from sizing but it definitely does give the garment some body. And you could also use this on 100% if you'd like again it isn't gonna give you the same effect but you can use it, it isn't gonna hurt 100% cotton fabric. Starch different kinds of starch different ways of using starch some people put starch in the washing machine. I don't have that kind of starch here with me but you can do that you can put it in the final cycle. Some people use corn starch right from their kitchen. It's a lot of work to do that and if you put too much in your laundry can get gummy. So what most people do is they use the liquid starch this is actually my favorite way of starching. There is a little recipe in the back of the bottle that tells you the ratio of starch in the bottle to water. So if you want napkins or what ever you are using it for to be really stiff or medium or less it does give you that formula. This is another kind of starch it's in powder form, it's pretty hard to find this. Most people don't use this any more but some people do swear by it. Because it's more economical you will go through a bottle of this pretty quickly. This is gonna last a really really long time but you do have to be really careful when you mix it up that you don't get any lumps, it's kind of like when making gravy. O.K. so we have the spray starches and this is what I use when I am in a hurry. We've got three brands, they all do the same thing. These are all heavy starch, they're also is light starch. I never use it I like garments that really have a nicely starch feel. If I'm gonna go through the trouble of starching something I want it to look starch. This I think it's pretty cool, it's same starch as this except this does not have an aerosol this has a spray bottle. One of the most frustrating thing about starch is that the aerosol cans can get clog the nozzles and no matter how hard you try you can't unclog that nozzle and you want to toss the thing in the trash can so that's a little frustrating.

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