To brighten, if not lighten, their washday loads, they buy more than $1 billion a year worth of bleaches and bluing agents, starches and softeners, disinfectants and detergents.
As white-haired women usually do, she requested the coiffeur to put a little bluing in the rinse water.
If bluing is used a bluish tinge appears on the white covering.
RTS for 8/17 MADE IN BRADFORD: Wright Scroxton’s New Method Manufacturiing produced household gadgets, gun bluing and catalytic cigar and cigarette lighters from the late 1920s into the 1960s and early ’70s.
Aug. 17, 2013 - The Bradford Era