Help - bleached white sheets have turned pink

confusedmummy

Can anyone help me.

I am trying to clean some white cotton cotbed sheets that were pretty heavily stained. I washed them and then soaked them in bleach. Now they are not only not clean (the stains are still there) but they have turned a soft pink colour from the bleach :eek:.

How can I a) turn them back to white and b) get the stains out? Thanks!

Plasterer

confusedmummy wrote: »

Can anyone help me.

I am trying to clean some white cotton cotbed sheets that were pretty heavily stained. I washed them and then soaked them in bleach. Now they are not only not clean (the stains are still there) but they have turned a soft pink colour from the bleach :eek:.

How can I a) turn them back to white and b) get the stains out? Thanks!

C) Buy some new ones :rotfl:

Mrs_Imp

Why not dye them a different colour. Dylon do wash-in dyes. Just remember to run your washing machine empty on a rinse cycle afterwards else you could end up dying your next load too!

WestonDave

At the risk of being completely unhelpful - why bother. Cotbed sheets are by definition for a child too small to care if their (even if its a he!) sheets are slightly pink, and provided the sheets are clean, they won't mind a few stains either. I would personally spend the time enjoying the child rather than wasting it on being excessively clean - but then I'm a bloke so what do I know (care!)

mrcow

Don't do anything - the pink will fade.

Just wash them again and use as normal. After a few washes, the colour will improve.