Clothes fading (really quickly) in the wash

Joyful

The other option is to use a Washball/ Ecoball. This takes no colour from any clothes.

Organic12

How about trying Ecoballs? I prefer using them on non-whites as they preserve the colour of items really well. However, I find stuff does need the occasional wash with normal washing powder. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/77987

Sorry, Joyful beat me to it by minutes

happy35

i did find that Ariel colour still faded our clothes, I now use Formil colour from Lidl and find this doesnt lead to bad fading

Hootie19

Thanks all. Will try some ecoballs in future and see how we get on. I have put a load in and have put the clothes inside out, and have put the temperature down to 30, so will be interested to see if it makes a difference. His favourite, and newest, t shirt is in there, so there's a lot riding on it.

Just to clarify - he doesn't get his washing done for him per se. We have a communal laundry basket and we all "take turns" in putting a load in

ButterflyKisses

If you all take turns, is there likely to be anyone who is maybe turning the temp on the machine up thinking it will be more effective or putting 'just a few' odd coloured items in with a wash or something like that? Are they fading like black to grey or just becoming duller?

I use Persil colour and no problems at all. My partner wears all black for work and I only wear bright colours but I do separate into similar colours when I do a wash ie. blacks on their own, blues and greens together, purples and pinks etc. I maintain this is why all our bedding is red, pink or purple, to go with my work shirts!

Savvy_Sue

Using more powder than strictly necessary, could that be part of it?

sunshinetours

Joyful wrote: »

The other option is to use a Washball/ Ecoball. This takes no colour from any clothes.

Organic12 wrote: »

How about trying Ecoballs? I prefer using them on non-whites as they preserve the colour of items really well. However, I find stuff does need the occasional wash with normal washing powder. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/77987

Sorry, Joyful beat me to it by minutes

Or save some money and wash in plain water as its just the same

roxiegriff

i use the bold 2 in 1 blue box too, i was at 30* and i dry my clothes outside,

most of my OHs tops are primark, and DDs preschool tops are primark, they both wear a clean tshirt everyday

(i menioned primark so you see that they are cheap tops)


we never have any trouble with fading,

:shrug: