??Confused about the homemade Best Press recipe..??.
I made some today, using the recipe posted recently (2 c. distilled water, 2 oz. cheap Vodka, 2 drops essential oil, fragrance of your choice). It smells lovely when I press my fabric, but it clearly is not a starch, (as someone predicted, saying the starch turns into alcohol, so there is no starch left in Vodka.) So what is in Best Press which makes it like a starch? What can I add to this to make it a starch? Adding some StaFlo concentrated liquid starch would probably work, but that has it's own scent.
Another question: What does the vodka do in this mix, if it isn't a starch? It seems this would work the same with only distilled water and scent from the essential oil. (And why couldn't I use tap water? It's in a spray plant mister type bottle, not going into the iron.)
Questions, questions, questions! Inquiring minds want to know!