Best Press
#16
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 77
We keep a spray bottle of water and when the cats scratch the furniture we give them a shot. My husband couldn't find the one he uses near the computer, got up looking and saw my spray starch bottle on the ironing board. I couldn't find it and asked. He said that he thought it was the one to "shoot" the cats with and that is what he had been using. No wonder their fur looked so nice and laid down and they were so docile and calm.
#17
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Madison, Mississippi
Posts: 39
I made up a batch and love it for the smell while pressing. Something to look forward to when ironing!! Doesn't add any stiffness to the fabric as far as I can tell at least not on the pieces I have used it on.
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 440
I finally found the courage to go buy vodka and made my own best press. I looked for the ingredients in best press, but they don't have them listed, so it makes me wonder if it really could be vodka and water with a little fragrance in it. I mix mine 3:1 ratio (water:vodka),or there about, and find that it does just as good as best press and a LOT cheaper. The most expensive thing to buy was the fragrance at Vitamin Shoppe and if you don't get the lavender it's even cheaper. When I went into the liquor store to get the vodka and told the man that I wanted the cheapest quality, he kind of looked at me weird so I had to tell him what I was doing with it. Wonder if he ever looked it up on the internet???
If you are worried about whether or not you like using the vodka mix, just buy a small size bottle of it, that's what I did.
If you are worried about whether or not you like using the vodka mix, just buy a small size bottle of it, that's what I did.
#19
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 440
I add a small amount of liquid starch to my homemade best press mixture sometimes if I want a little more body to my item, but generally don't use the starch.
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Beaverton OR
Posts: 80
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