HOW TO WASH SILKS AND RAYONS. When washing silks and rayons avoid hot water, and use a borax preparation like I.X.L. Borax Washing Powder. Rayon is a fabric made from a compound of wood pulp with various other vegetable substances, and its fibres are sometimes weakened when wet and therefore deserve specially careful handling. They regain their strength when dry. Some silks are also delicate. Hot water and strong soaps yellow white silks and rayons and fade coloured ones. When you use I.X.L. Borax Washing Powder, however, you keep intact the delicate texture of the garment and also its colour, thus considerably lengthening its life and keeping it soft and lustrous. Wring with great care, especially rayon, squeezing rather than twisting. Dry both silks and rayons only partially, roll in cloth, and iron while decidedly damp. Use an only moderately hot iron. Iron on the wrong side to give a new appearance. I.X.L. Borax Washing Powder is obtainable from Grocers at 2d. packet. When you have saved up 200 I.X.L. wrappers send them to the Superbus Packing. Co. Ltd., 90 Madras Street, Christchurch, and you will receive a Free Cash Gift of half-u-crown.—Advt.
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Southland Times, Issue 21835, 12 October 1932, Page 11
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193Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Southland Times, Issue 21835, 12 October 1932, Page 11
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