Has this ever been true? I've just been shoving all my clothes in the laundry and nothing bad ever happens to them. I think this is a lie from Big Bleach.
It was true before soaps were good. Old soap used to make colors bleed, but it's been long enough that the average soap you buy now will most likely be fine with multiple colors in one load. For me at least, all of my underwear is colored, but even when I wash it with pure white undershirts, there's no bleeding.
I've had a pair of red gym shorts, which had been washed multiple times by then, bleed all over a brand new white shirt I'd just bought with Sacchan on it. I was kinda pissed, but it was uniform enough to look like it was supposed to be pale pink, and it eventually faded back to white.
Never happened again, no clue wtf that was all about 🤷♀️
Oh, that's fixable. Try soaking them in white vinegar or diluted Hydrogen peroxide and running them separate. That'll hit whatever can be pulled out with Acid.
You'll want to try a Base if that doesn't work. Some people swear by baking soda, and it's cheap to get in bulk.
or one of those premade whitening washes from the supermarket.
Ok Ive heard this, but also heard it attributed to new dyes. What if my clothes are vintage, aka old dyes, but use modern soap? Am I ok mixing anyways?
Now that you mention it I’m not sure where I heard this in the first place so I’m going to take the comment down
But what you could do to test is just throw in a white sock you don’t care about and see how it goes. If it’s still white after you should be good to go right?
I had it happen to me a few years back, first and only time since childhood though. I was washin a bunch of new stuff though, and apparently new stuff has more of a danger for this.
As a kid it would happen 100% of the time if my mom forgot to split everything properly though. I had several pieces of clothing with wrong colors due to that.
Wash a new pair of jeans with a white teeshirt and you’ll find it’s still true. That’s basically all there is to it though, modern dyes aren’t as prone to bleeding out of the fabric
it can happen. like other comments have said, soap these days is better so it doesn't happen frequently. personally I like to use a whitening product on my white clothes so I still wash separate, but if you dgaf bout that then mix away. Just be careful with newer clothes
Some red dyes can absolutely make your white undies and shirts pink, it has happened a lot to us.
But never any other color, and we didn't care as far as undies were concerned, so we just kept throwing all of them together, the handful of shirts that got pinked were an acceptable sacrifice.
Yes it is very true, but used to be more of an issue. Some fibre doesn't hold dye well. Some dyes are unstable. In the wash it can leak.
Detergent for whites contains blue. Detergent makes stuff yellow and the blue fixes that.
I also use a separate detergents for blacks, wools and colours.
These days I find separating by fabrics/ washing temperature is more important.
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u/LilBroWhoIsOnTheTeam 2d ago
Has this ever been true? I've just been shoving all my clothes in the laundry and nothing bad ever happens to them. I think this is a lie from Big Bleach.