Originally Posted by zoeytoo
What are color catcher sheets?
Both wash and don't wash sides sound reasonable. For my opinion, I'm clean but dust snd cat hair are not toxic so if you want to give me a hand made beautiful quilt with dust and cat hair, i am all for it. Even if you washed it, I'd probably wash it myself too. Just the way I am. But the dust and cat hair ... No Problem! I read somewhere that all the cleaning products that kill germs are causing people to not build up resistance to germs. True or not?
Color catcher sheets are designed to attract any dye molecules floating around in the wash water, in theory.
The germs and resistance theory is one theory.
I spent over three months on a burn unit, so I am not an expert but I was taught a lot about germs in the environment.
Another theory, the one the burn unit nurses taught me, is that using antibacterial products helps breed resistant strains of bacteria by killing off the weaker bacteria and leaving only the strongest to reproduce.
Additionally, the vast majority of bacteria in the average home are either neutral for humans or actually good for humans. These neutral and good bacteria compete with the bad (for humans) bacteria and help crowd them out. If you kill off all the bacteria in the environment, you are creating a risk that what re-colonises the area will be mostly bad bacteria.