Color catchers tested by Consumer Reports
#21
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: N.E. FLA
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I have some color catchers from Woolite called Dye Magnets. I have used them very successfully for several years. I just started looking for more and can't find them in the store anymore. Anyone know if they are still available?
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: formerly Chicago suburb now Mooresville,NC
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Many of you use Retayne, I have never seen in my grocery store or fabric store. Where do you find it? I use color catchers and like someone else said, you have to use common sense. I don't put a load of new red towels in with my husbands underware.
#24
Originally Posted by auntpiggylpn
I always have a fear of my colors running. Whether it is fabric or laundry, I sort by lights and darks. I've always been scared to throw a dark in with lights, even with a color catcher!
Me too! I do use and like color catchers.
#26
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: 25 yrs in TN; now back home in MI
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I read the article. One needs to use common sense when washing colors. New garments in red, black and deep blue seem to bleed so wash them separately.
Keep white together as one load.
I've used color catcher and it works for me.
Keep white together as one load.
I've used color catcher and it works for me.
#27
I just used a Shout color catcher yesterday on a new red top that had a white vee in front. I was really afraid to wash it, but the white vee came out white and the catcher was med pink/red.
SEW I will continue to use them on anything that might bleed color.
SEW I will continue to use them on anything that might bleed color.
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Originally Posted by ChrisB
I use Synthrapol and Retayne on fabrics that bleed. I had a Texas quilt with pink on the white in Texas from the red/burgundy fabric bleed. I washed with Synthrapol and all the pink came out.
#30
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Coastal Georgia
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I had never heard of color catchers until I came on this board.
I was thought to always sort clothes out by white, light, medium and darks and wash them accordingly so that's what I do with my fabric and have had no problems with anything bleeding over into another piece.
IMHO if you follow the rule of thumb mum thought me you can't go wrong. Wash whites by themself, lights by themself, mediums by themself and darks by themself.
Ever since reading about color catchers in your laundry I've not been able to wrap around my mind how can it do that and still not spill over into the fabrics already in there. If it gets caught by this color catcher surely some of it still goes into the other pieces in there.
I was thought to always sort clothes out by white, light, medium and darks and wash them accordingly so that's what I do with my fabric and have had no problems with anything bleeding over into another piece.
IMHO if you follow the rule of thumb mum thought me you can't go wrong. Wash whites by themself, lights by themself, mediums by themself and darks by themself.
Ever since reading about color catchers in your laundry I've not been able to wrap around my mind how can it do that and still not spill over into the fabrics already in there. If it gets caught by this color catcher surely some of it still goes into the other pieces in there.
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