Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Dinnie from Tampa
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RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
By soaking in salt water or vinager will it keep the fabric color from rubbing off on to another color while you are wearing it?
Post By Gram 2 (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Hi, I have a dress that has 3 colours on it. The base is white and it has one line of red fabric and one line of black fabric across it. The red from the fabric runs and the dress has turned pink. I have tried soaking it in cold water twice for days already but the colour worsens . I've tried most of your advice (ie salt vinegar and cold water treatment) but it has been stained to dark pink! I need help!
Post By MELODY (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
I am going to try Bright White, based on the above advice. The white collar on my favorite red rugby shirt has pink streaks, even though I washed it in cold water with a cup of vinegar. I will also try the salt trick in the future. Thanks.
Post By Jeannie (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
The product used for quilts to stop color bleeding is called Grandma's Secret Spot Remover.
I found mine at Keepsake Quilting.com
Post By Francine (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Salt! Soak the offending clothes in very salty water, then remove them and spin. You may need to repeat several times but it does work. It is also possible to remove the colour run off from clothes by doing this. Also washing alike colours together prevents the problem somewhat.
Post by Myrtle May
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
I washed a red and white uniform in cold water and on the hand-wash cycle.The white is now pink... I am desperate! Is there a chance to get the pink back to white?
Post By Tina (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
My black bled into my white in my black and white cotton coat...now it is grey and black. What can I do to restore the white to white and not fade out the black?
ayaba 11 @ aol . com
Post By Ayaba (Guest Post)
RE: Bag Take Home Leftovers After A Holiday Dinner
My Mamaw used to wash up & sterilize the styrofoam trays that raw ground beef came on. She'd used those for putting cake slices on to freeze. They worked well with plastic wrap so you could see thru it.
Post by badwater
RE: Bag Take Home Leftovers After A Holiday Dinner
You can always tell family members to bring their own containers to take food home. As for the cake- take two plates, put the cake on one and turn the other upside down over the top of the cake and then place in a large bag. This works great. If you worry about the icing sticking to the plate on top, cover the cake with wax paper before putting the "lid" on it. If Chinet plates are used then you won't have to worry with the icing sticking. Have fun sharing
Post By Linda (Guest Post)
RE: Bag Take Home Leftovers After A Holiday Dinner
I also save food tubs throughout the year (whipped topping, margarine, etc) for occasions such as this.
Post by tah_dah
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Well i am using the salt and vinegar treatment in cold water for an hour on a brand new pair of 501s. We'll see how it works.
Post By alltatteddown (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
In the laundry section of the grocery, you can buy a box of sheets called Color-Catcher. Although the box says to use a new one each wash, we use them again and again and again. I only toss it when it doesn't have a real color left in it (even navy or brown) and it is dark and dingy. I wash all clothes worn close to the body in warm water (even my delicates) because cold water doesn't clean them well enough. Haven't had any color bleeding except to the Color Catcher sheet!
Post By Barbara (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Retayne is the product that is supposed to stop bleeding. I haven't tried it as it has formaldehyde in it.
Post By Barbara (Guest Post)
RE: What do flour worms look like?
I have used Wrigley's Spearmint Gum . I unwrap a piece and put it in my flour, rice, cornmeal, anything. No, it does not pick up the taste of the gum. It smells like it, but it does not have the flavor. A ninety two year old lady told me this about twenty years ago. I use it it works.
Post by diane from wisconsin
RE: What do flour worms look like?
An employee of a flour mill told me to put my new bag of flour in the freezer for 3 days and this will kill all the bug eggs. I thought it would damage the flour (make it sticky, clumpy...) - but it doesn't affect it. Then take out of the freezer and put it in whatever container you usually use (or leave it in the paper bag and enclose in a larger plastic container.
Post by cookwie
RE: What do flour worms look like?
We always called them "mealy bugs". They are very, very small and white. I have been married for 35 years and have never had them in any of my flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, etc. When I got married my aunt told me to always keep a couple of bay leaves in my containers of flour, etc. It really works and doesn't change the taste of the product.
Post by matjat
RE: What do flour worms look like?
I don't know what they look like, either. But if there is something in your flour, that wasn't there when you were in the flour bin last, toss out everything in the flour bin. Time to buy brand new flour. Also, time to reinvest in some air tight containers.
Post by badwater
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Do you think I would ruin a pair of white linen (55%) and rayon (45%) capris that says to dry clean only by washing them?. They are lined with polyester and have some decorative black stitching on the bottom.
Thank you.
JJ
Post By Joy Berry (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
There is a product called Bright White that reverses colors that have run, stops running and removes yellow from under arm area (if it's not too bad).
Post By Colleen (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
To keep colors from bleeding use: 1/2 Tablespoon salt and 1/2 Cup of White vinegar to 1/2 gal (2 qts.) of cold water. Soak for 1 hour, rinse and repeat if necessary. One item at a time will make it easier to check if it will be necessary to repeat the process.
Post By Daisy (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
I disagree will a lot of these statements. I've bought clothing, and after around the 5th time I ever wash my items, the clothing turns colors....ei: My brown shirt turned orange, my baby blue shirt turned pink. They never showed any signs of bleeding until that wash, I always use cold water and have never used bleach in my washing machine.
Post By Tara (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Call your nearest quilt shop. I can't remember the name but, you use a little of it in a bucket with water and the items and IT WILL NEVER RUN AGAIN. I wish I could remember the name. I need some more.
Post By Rose (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
The first time I wash a new item that I don't want to fade, I wash it in cold water with just salt - probably a cup of salt. I will wash several items in the salt at once and I've never had problems with them fading on each other. I also wash all of my clothes in cold water and nothing else. If I want to kill germs, I run the items through the wash with liquid lysol and then again with regular detergent.
Post By Ann4 (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
If I remember correctly, adding salt to the water sets the color.
Post By Lucille Gifford (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
Saok clothes in heavely salted water before washing.
Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
When i worked in a children's clothing store, we always told the customers to soak clothing that had the potential to run (like bright reds) in a solution of 1/2 cup vinegar per 1 gallon of water for 30 minutes before washing. Supposedly any dye that would come out should be taken care of by this, and the rest of the dye would be set - though I've never tried it personally, I never had any customers come back complaining.
Post By Shari (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
I wash only with cold water, which means no running colours. If I have to use warm I add salt to the water. Susan from Hamilton
Post By Susan from Hamilton (Guest Post)
RE: Keeping Color From Bleeding When Washing Clothing
If you put a cup of vinegar in your wash water it will reduce color runoff onto other fabrics. Just make sure that you do not add chlorine bleach, as it will cause a chemical reaction.
Wendy
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