What are u on about? There’s only one kind of laundry detergent.
No.
I never have used detergent for colored clothes.
Apparently not specific enough: I use clothes detergent for all my clothes, but not detergent for colored clothes, I use regular clothes detergent for all my clothes
Er, wut?
I’m a Luddite and old fashioned, using maybe 1/4 the detergent recommended, always use cold water, and use things like washing soda…and even I use detergents.
I dunno, general purpose works well enough. You can just add a little bleach if you need it for whites if you care. Oh and use powder of you can - liquid has way too much water in it, they’re ripping you off.
Oh and use powder of you can - liquid has way too much water in it, they’re ripping you off
Where I live, if you don’t use the powder up in a month, it clumps or worse from the humidity. I swear by powder in the US Northeast. Here in Central America, I have to buy liquid.
I have literally never separated my clothes, and I’ve never had anything get messed up.
Aside from new clothes bleeding dye, there’s definitely a difference in whites, even if you can only see it in comparison to other whites.
Actually, I think at that point it’s the dryer, scattering fine colored lint across the white shirts, making them appear duller, greyer
New stuff should definitely be washed on it’s own a couple of times, before being mixed in. New stuff can easily give off enough color to make a white shirt pink for example when washed with a red thing.
Just because you’ve been lucky or maybe have a lot of same colors where it doesn’t matter doesn’t mean it’s a general rule to go by.
No? Why would it only happen in non-cold water?
When the clothes are first colored they use too much dye, because using too little ruins a batch of clothes whilst using too much is only bad for the environment but good for making money. The surplus of dye can’t adhere to the fabric, so the first couple of times you wear/use and or wash the clothes the extra dye comes off.
I had a set of dark green bed sheets give off blue dye onto my white matrass cover. I didn’t wash them together, but the extra dye still came off in use. Obviously water will help the dye become mobile a lot, but it isn’t necessary. I’m not sure if the temperature has any effect at all.
Ah right, makes sense. In that case it probably fine to just mix it up. But if you want old whites to pop a bit more, using a detergent for white stuff works well.
Personally I use a special detergent for blacks and darks and also the dark program on the washing machine. I’ve found it greatly increases the life of black and dark stuff. I almost exclusively wear black and dark blues and want to use clothes as long as possible.
