Towels stained with hairdye!!

Fozz

My oldest DD dyes her hair regularly and has managed to stain just about all our towels with dye. The towels still have a lot of life in them, would it be possible to bleach the cream ones, or alternatively to dye them?
Don't want to get dye unless I know it will work, has anyone tried it?

Raspberry_Swirl

Not really an answer to your question but when I was at home there was a specific towel for dyed hair!!

esmf73

No dye will not cover the splodges of colour, it will just change the colour of the rest of the towel. Sorry

SallyForth_2

Raspberry_Swirl wrote: »

Not really an answer to your question but when I was at home there was a specific towel for dyed hair!!

Same here, keep an old towel especially for this, and an old dressing gown too. Oh and I never use light coloured towels for at least three washes afterwards as well.

Dizzy_Ditzy

I just have one old towel for hairdye- give her one and when you know she is going to do her hair again, make sure she uses it

elfen

Keep one towel for hair dye - then use that one alone. If the towels are cotton you should be able to use the dye you put in the washing machine, think it's Dylon or someone similar, they do it in different colours. Sorry I'm not much more help, but it's been a while.

Sunnyday

Could you look for a dye which is a similar colour to the colour of the hair dye?

If you can then i find that the dylon washing machine dyes are great, the hair dye may just blend in and not be very noticeable, you will need a good bit of salt to go in the machine with the dye which may be an issue as none of the supermarkets seem to have any at the moment.

HTH

SD

babyshoes

Never had much luck rescuing hair-dyed towels, I'm afraid to say, but I haven't bothered to try dyeing them. Depending on the colour of the dye, bleaching the cream ones might help fade the stain enough to dye the towel a darker colour. There is no reason that fabric dye wouldn't work if they are the right type of fabric - check the label before you go to buy the dye and read the lable. Also, make sure you dye them a darker colour than the stain, such as black or dark brown, as even if the stain is still visible afterwards, it will be less noticible than if you dye it a lighter colour.

Failing that, you could always make them into hippy tie-dye towels for the beach

I think you should choose one or two of the ones that are already wrecked, and designate those as hair dye towels, no others to be used. If she wrecks any more, then perhaps make her replace them with pocket money!

That said, there is no reason the stained towels can't still be used for everyday - after a good wash the dye won't come out and stain things, but hide them if you have guests staying!

lainz

If its semi-permenant you may be able to rescue by soaking in water with a good dollop or two of shampoo - I use a bucket and boiling water - leave a day or two and then wash on a hot wash.


I have no idea what my natural hair colour is

Edit to say - this is normally best done as soon as!

Rikki

Fozz wrote: »

My oldest DD dyes her hair regularly and has managed to stain just about all our towels with dye. The towels still have a lot of life in them, would it be possible to bleach the cream ones, or alternatively to dye them?
Don't want to get dye unless I know it will work, has anyone tried it?

Let her just use one towel or a set of towels when dying her hair and keep the good set dye free.

debtmess

it wont help you now but if hairdye has managed to get onto fabric, spray with hairspray as soon as you can

it helps lift the dye back out the fabric, dont know how but when i was an apprentice the stylists recomended it for keeping the dye from staining there work clothes