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Aren't Sodium Bicarbonate and Starch two different things?Starching (i.e. using sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, to coat them) makes the jeans, which become soft over repeated wearings, stiff again, which makes the whiskering process more pronounced, the same as when you first got the jeans. Â The "yellowing" effect on the thighs will occur if you are not the type that is afraid to sit on public benches, and are the type that will wipe their hands on their jeans after washing, one of the original bonuses of wearing jeans, beforethey became sacred objects.
remind me never to buy anything from you at a bake sale.Whoops. Â You are quite right. Â This is embarassing (I'm a chemist by training). Â Use starch, not sodium bicarbonate. Â Or you'll wash your jeans by mistake, and want to kill me.
Sodium bicarbonate (soda) blasting is sometimes used to distress jeans. Which is probably the cause of the confusion.Sodium bicarbonate will have a cleaning effect on dirty jeans. Starch will just make them stiffer.
Just make sure they don't cut them off of you when you go to the emergency room.Also, play tackle football in them; it'll be fun and you'll wear your jeans.