How do you whiten clothes, without bleach?

Well..To be truthful.. I dunno I dont wash the clotehs n all So i ve got like no idea at all about all this stuff

We used to do it the natural way. Bleach it under the sun with soap. Leave it for at least 6 hours and DYRAHHHH! Immaculate white

I never have heard about people being allergy to bleach but if your daughter is allergy to bleach I think you would try to whiten clothes without use bleach like for example use lemon to whiten clothes and especially linens, first you will need to sock your clothes in hot water with slices of lemon and leave it for two or three hours and then you will whiten your clothes plus they will have fresh lemon smell, another natural way to whiten your clothes and linens is vinegar mixed with detergent or just leaving your clothes in the sunlight but it takes a lot of time so if you are hurry it would not be a good idea, anyway you would try with one would fit better with you way of live, or the climate if there is much rain you would not be able to use the sunlight, also you would use dishwasher detergent but this is not a natural way and you would get troubles like when you were using bleach.

Do you have sunlight in your place? Or are you accessible to direct heat from the sun. If you do, you put in your white clothes soak water with bar soap or detergent soap put in plastic on top and keep it under the sun. The sunlight will keep the white linen whiter. If no sunlight put in boiling waiter to your linen it will serve as your sunlight (the heat). Try it, it might help. Sorry for the late comment.

Well no, not unless the detergent is mixed with Bleach or so.

Since I learned that bleach (inhaling the fume that it emits) can be harmful to the lungs, I've stopped using it - I have asthma. What I do is to first soak the linen in very soapy water (not too much water yet) for a few hours, sometimes overnight. Then I launder as usual.

Baking soda works well for whitening. Just add some to the wash. Nothing is going to get the bleach effect of course but you will get some whitening effect from it.

Make sure you wash only whites with whites. Pour your detergent in as usual, when the washing machine is full of water add in 1/4 cup of baking soda, and 1/4 cup of vinegar.

Beauty I see where someone tell you about the blue. You have to wash the clothes first and then you rinse it in the blue water. Buy some cake soap (BOMBER). Grater or cut it up small and put it into the water with the clothes if it is machine wash. Hand wash you just soap them up with it. This soap has in all that need to wash your whites. There are two types of bomber you have the whitening and the regular. You can buy brought. I hope this isn't too late. You have to be careful with the blue because all of it will be this color. Do not make the water well blue o.k.

Baking soda in the wash is great, and also vinegar. Two of my favorite ingredients for any kind of cleanup. :-)