Dyed clothes when washing 🥝 how to wash a white thing

Not every housewife has a lot of time to sort laundry, and often this process combines with some other things. Everything would be fine if there were things from the same fabric in the wardrobe, the same shade. But we all love diversity. And sometimes it happens that a thing gets molded into the wash, which sheds, as a result, spots appear on the clothes washed with it. What to do if clothes are dyed during washing, and is there an opportunity to save your favorite things? What to do if a sweater, dress or t-shirt is painted? Let's look at a few simple ways to get things back to their original color.

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Emergency help

After washing, your favorite blouse looks awful, it is a pity to throw it away, so what to do? If the clothes are dyed during washing:

• Do not wait for the item to dry, and even more so do not iron it - this will fix the spots, it will be difficult to remove them. It is better to immediately wash in a large amount of powder.
• If white linen is damaged, you can add suitable fabric. bleach. If color is suitable stain remover.
• The washing should be carried out at high temperature, not less than 60 degrees.
• If repeated washing did not help, you need to boil things in a metal container with soap, powder and bleach. You need to boil for 2-3 hours, sometimes stir. Then rinse in cold water. But this cannot be done with synthetic things.
• You can rub stains on clothes that have been stained with liquid dishwashing detergent, leave for a while and rinse with plenty of water.

Important! The effectiveness of these methods is highly dependent on the tissue. Cotton clothing is easiest to help. Artificial fabrics, such as nylon, are more difficult to save, sometimes even impossible.

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Special tools

If emergency help does not help, you will have to turn to special means: bleaches, stain removers and solvents. When choosing a product, you need to carefully study the instructions that do not completely ruin the affected product.

Important! If chemicals are used, it is not recommended to wash things more than three times in a row. No fabric can stand it.

So, what to do if the clothes are dyed during washing and you want to restore its appearance by all means:

• If your favorite light trousers or blouses are painted, then you can use a solvent marked “White” or oxygen bleach. If things cannot be washed in a machine, then you need to soak them for several hours with bleach, and then wash them manually. White linen can be boiled in “White”.
• For colored items, a stain remover marked “Color” is suitable. To restore dyed non-white fabrics, color reducers can be used. They are sold in the household chemicals department. One such tool is “Dr. Beckmann 3 in1 ”.

Important! Act strictly according to the instructions, protect the skin and respiratory tract, as the product is characterized by strong toxic fumes.

• It is good in such cases to use household soap. You can rub them with stains and leave for several hours, and then wash. Or prepare a solution. To do this, grate soap and dissolve in water, then soak things in the resulting solution. Leave for several hours, then wash in the usual way.

Important! Try not to mix different bleaches and solvents. Products containing chlorine must not be combined with those containing ammonia. When combined, they produce toxic fumes. You don’t remove things either, and you yourself will suffer.

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Folk remedies

Folk remedies do not always give a one hundred percent result, but when saving your favorite things, all means are good. How to whiten white linen that is dyed from colored items using improvised means?

Lemon juice

Pour a small amount of lemon juice on the wrong side. Lemon juice can be replaced with a solution of citric acid - half a bag of citric acid goes to 200 ml of water. Leave clothes or linen in this form for several hours, then wash.

White vinegar

Pour 3-4 tablespoons of vinegar into soapy water and soak clothes overnight. By the way, this tool will be effective not only in this situation. Read more about it and how to use it in everyday life in our special publication. "White vinegar".

Soda solution

If things are not very badly affected, a soda solution will help. In a small amount of warm water you need to dissolve 2 tablespoons of soda and soak things for 3-5 hours.

Ammonia

In the water where divorced ammonia (2 teaspoons), soak the laundry for several hours.

Boiling with the addition of ammonia gives a good result, 20 grams of ammonia goes to 5 liters of liquid.

Important! When using this tool, be sure to ventilate the room well, since the smell will not be the most pleasant to spread.

Hydrogen peroxide

It can be mixed with ammonia or used separately:

• Water, ammonia and hydrogen peroxide are mixed in a ratio of 2: 1: 1, linen is soaked in this mixture.
• 2-3 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide are added to water with a detergent. In this solution, you need to boil things for 2-3 hours.

Starch

You need to prepare a cleaning paste from starch, water, coarse salt and shavings of laundry soap. All ingredients are taken in equal amounts. This slurry is applied to the damaged tissue from the wrong side and left for 5-12 hours. Sometimes citric acid is also added to this mixture to enhance the effect and probably whiten white linen that has been stained with colored items.

Potassium permanganate

Several crystals of potassium permanganate are dissolved in water, washing powder is added thereto and left for 1.5 hours. This method is not suitable for saving light things.

Important! This is a risky method, it is better to use it when there is nothing left to lose.

After all of the above methods, things should be washed and rinsed thoroughly.

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We create an author's thing

If more than one method did not give a positive result, then you can try to decorate the clothes:

• Some things can be completely dyed, for example, cotton products can be dyed in aniline dye.

Important! Using dyes, be careful and consider the type of fabric. A woolen thing can sit down, and acrylic - on the contrary, will stretch.

For more detailed tips on choosing the right tool and its use, see the article at the link "The best paint for fabrics".

• If a few spots appeared on the blouse and it was not possible to remove them, it does not matter. Increase their number. This can be done using ordinary watercolor or a special paint for fabrics. Apply spots of suitable color at random and create a composition. After the masterpiece is ready, dry for several hours, then fix with ironing.
• You can make beautiful patterns on the spoiled thing with the same colors and stencils. If you draw well, then you will not need a stencil.
• Buy acrylic paint in a spray can - it is easy to apply, it dries quickly, and color remains during washing.
• The drawing can also be done using felt-tip pens and markers, and then with the help of an iron it can be fixed on fabric.

Important! If you do not want to bother with the drawings, then you can make several stitches with colored threads on painted places, or sew ribbons, rhinestones, flowers or ready-made applications. All this can be purchased at the fabric store.

Can i make appliques on clothes with your own hands.

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How to prevent coloring things?

To avoid resuscitation of your favorite things, you need to adhere to the following recommendations.

• Before washing new things, carefully study the labels on them.
• Sort items when washing by color and type of fabric.
• For the first time it is better to wash new clothes, especially jeans or synthetics, separately to find out if it sheds or not.
• If you soak a thing in a salt solution, then it will shed less.

Important! If your expensive thing goes bad, then do not experiment on it. In this case, it is better to use dry cleaning services.

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In this article, we told you what can be done if the clothes are dyed during washing. We hope that you set about solving the problem on time and were able to return the original shade of the thing.