A Despairing Question.

[bluemoon]

WHY WHY WHY, do colours which are non-fast, suddenly become very fast indeed when they've infiltrated your whites? Guess what I did this morning and it's only half past eight......think I'd better go back to bed before I do something truly stupid.

[Mikey]

Sounds like the kind of thing a man would do.

[supergrass]

Thats why i used the dry cleaners

Max.

[Flummery]

You used to be able to buy things caled 'colour catchers' - you put one in the wash each time and if anything runs it traps the dye and stops it affecting your whites. I don't think you can still get them. I've also seen them referred to as dye catchers.

[HeyWayne]

Just don't worry about it. I now wear several pairs of previously white, now pink boxer shorts.

[di]

Andi has several lime green t.shirts thanks to same thing!did however finally get rid of a nasty curry stain that nowt else would budge!:

[SueA]

I bought something last year that you put in the wash & it removes dye which has run into something it shouldn't. I'd washed my favourite bright pink vest top in with some other colours & a navy top leaked blue streaks all over it, managed to save it with the dye remover though. Hang on I'll just go & see if there's any in the cupboard to get the name....found it, it's by Dylon, Colour Safe Colour Run Remover. I got it from Tesco, give it a go all might not be lost!

[jackie j]

There is something new being advertised on the telly but cant remember what its called must be a good advert lol !!! its a magnet thingy that you put in the wash.

[squashysu]

oh bless, i do this quite alot and always get some "colour run" in my cupboard ready for when it happens, you can get it in Tesco.

what a frustrating job washing is!!!!

[jackie j]

I tried colour run but it didnt work

[Claire72]

Would glo white work?

My friend washes all her colours with salt in the wash for their first wash, she says it fixes the colour, then they don't run. I don't know if it works or not as haven't tried it myself, but she swears by it

[terrier]

You've all got it wrong! Put everything in a hot wash together and then be happy with battleship grey.
I just thought I'd put a man's point of veiw foreward.
Anyway, when I put all my trousers in the machine on a hot wash the colours didn't run, but...

[Claire72]

.....now they are 3 inches shorter and tighter?

[Alice]

What age is your frind Claire ? My Mother used to do that about 1950 !
Sorry Bluemoon, but I think once you've got colours into your whites they're never going to be white again. You might manage to salvage them back to a kind of bubble gum gray. What a shame. But we've all done it at least once.

[Mikey]

This is gonna sound weird, about a week ago I just happened to be browsing in the cleaning aisle, as you do as a man!!, and came across the very same product suea mentioned, so Tescos and Asda do it. Can't vouch as to whether it works, but you wouldn't have lost much trying.

Or alternatively find some dye the colour of the non colour fast product and dye completely that colour. Its like going to the shops and buying the same shirt you like in every colour option, this is the way of the man