Spray starch...

I still use spray starch when I sew. It works great for folding seams under before stitching. I love the smell, it reminds me of when I was little and my mother used it when she ironed. Not many people iron anymore, much less use starch.

Iron....what's an iron??? Nobody irons anymore so no need for spray starch. If I can't throw it in the dryer & have the wrinkles fall out, I don't buy it. Dry cleaners go out of business waitin on me too. I'm a wash & wear kinda girl

I still use it, I love that crisp look it gives. I think most people take their clothes to the cleaners to have that done. I remember ironing everything with spray starch, light for the shirts and heavy for the jeans. Gotta have a crease in those jeans. If you watch a sewing channel or something along that line you might see one.

Hello dear brother! Mind if I ask what the starch is for? Because here in our country they sprinkle little amount of water while ironing, it helps in straightening out the clothes. I haven't seen starch used before, so I'm guessing it's for the same purpose or so?

I still use sray starch as it works on my son's pant's and shirt's for work. I showed him how. But you know he like's it way to much. So I do it for him when it is something that need's it. other wise a fast iron and gone out the door. So yes we still use it. My mother dosen't anymore.

yeah i use it sometime when I'm ironing my clothes actually i like to iron my clothes by my self it like a hobby lol maybe commercials stopped cause it's became known already . enjoy posting my friend and have a nice time .

So much of the clothing today doesn't need to be ironed. I try to buy clothes that are not 100% cotton so no ironing is necessary. If a touch up is needed for shirts or blouses, I do use spray starch especially on the collar or front part of the shirt.

Though I have never used spray starch when I am ironing clothing (that stuff makes me itch), I have seen it readily available in the laundry isle of several stores around my area. So I am guessing that people are still using it despite not seeing commercials for it anymore.

I use Magic Sizing when I iron, it is in a spray can and is somewhat like starch, it makes the clothes look fresh, I can remember my mother who starched my petticoats and layed them out on the grass to dry, so they would stand out under my dress. I know the petticoats must be out as there is not enough skirt now adays to get one under.

hi howard I have seen it in the aisle for laundry products so guess its still going. but now that we have so many wash and wear clothing that needs no ironing a lot fewer women'use the stuff. I am allergic to the stuff so never have used it. I dislike the odor very much.

I still use spray starch!and especially if I hsve washed some napkins or some tray cloths,the starch finishes them off well.I can remember when the starch came i powder form,and it was made up ,a small amount of powder to a bucketful of water,and the clothes or fabric had their final rinse in it!it was just the done thing then.

Hie Howard, back in the old days, my mum used to homemade the starch herself She would make sure that every clothe was rinsed with diluted mixture of starch and blue before she hangs them out to dry in the sun. And the clothes would be so fresh and wrinkle free that they were hardly ironed onI could still remember some of clothes were so starched that they were actually looked like hard fabric that could stand on their own when I put them upright. I still see those spray starch in the stores but they do smell funny. Cheers,

I DO REMEMBER THAT!!! My mom used to do that on my ROTC uniform way back in college years. But that was not so long ago. LOL .. THATS WHAT WE CALL ALMIROL in my language! Nice topic here, makes me reminisce some of the memories during my younger years.

Yes, they still sell spray starch! I think that it is not used as often though. Because so many things are now Permanet Press, and do not require Ironing! There is also the wrinkled up fabric that is supposed to look wrinkled 24/7... LOL. But you can find the spray starch at the grocery store in the same area where the laundry supplies are....

I hope not, that stuff my grandmother used to put on my collars for my school blouses but it hurt my neck and she finally stopped.

i still can see some starch spray at the supermarket and groceries but i do not use one of those. i think there no longer commercial of that because not all people uses that. not like bath soaps and laundry soap all of us uses that. not all clothes need a starch spray too. mostly the clothes we wear now are the wash and wear clothes to save on electricity

I haven't used spray starch in over 15 years so I don't know if it is still sold in the stores. My mother used to starch my father's underwear!

Spray starch is something that I still use,I thought that the powdered starch was no longer available in the shops,but then in the cash and carry the other day there on the shelf was a few packets of powder starch,but the spray starch is much easier to use,it always used to be Robins starch.I use it for my linen,my bedside table cloths,it gives a good clean and professional look when they have been starched.

uhh really?its also known in your country to spray a starch when we ironed the clothe?.i dont know in germany if they are using it but in Philippines YES! still many family using it speacially bed cover and most of the past has a good influence this time just like ironing by using charcoal its a nice big influence to saved the powers.

hi howard, you didn't get bad smell in that time?