How to Get Yellow-Stained Bed Pillows White Again

How to Get Yellow-Stained Bed Pillows White Again
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Our favorite bed pillows get a lot of use every night. We keep clean pillowcases on them and don’t think much about the pillow inside until it’s time to change the bed linens. Have you looked recently?

Yikes! The pristine white pillows have turned blotchy with disgusting yellowish-to-brownish stains. What on earth? The most common response is to jam it into a clean pillowcase and hope to never have to look at that mess again!

What Are Those Stains?

The culprit is sweat, the chemical composition of which varies from one person to the next. Now, add drool, body oils, makeup, and hair products transferred to the pillow from lying down with wet hair; all of these things discolor pillows over time. But why not the pillowcases? Because we launder them frequently. When did you last launder your pillows?
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