Yeah, I don’t ever have enough white clothes to make a full load, so I don’t bother with bleach. I separate my clothes by drying requirements and fragility.
I wish this was true… Many of my shirts with a little white (like a collar or stripe) but otherwise dark together with other dark clothes are now a weird greyish tone that do not look clean… Same with all my white towels that I didn’t care about that I washed with my other dark stuff like towels and socks.
Agreed, day to day you wouldnt notice the white changing but hold up a 6month old shirt next to a new one of the same type and its definately greyer.
Whites i always do on their own with a sprinkle of napisan with the washing powder.
Courled and darks can be done together if the loads arent big enough to run two cycles.
All loads i only ever wash cold, and half a scoop of powder max, the ‘reccomended’ amount is too much, especially if the load isnt completely full. I have never had an issue with smells, stains, dirty clothes with the reduced powder amount.
But i will never wash new dark clothes without giving them a couple rinses in a bucket of water first. Sometimes it takes ~8 buckets cycles of hand washing/rinsing to get the colour to stop running from jeans and dark items that first time.
Separating whites and colored clothes.
If you wash on cold it doesn’t matter. Warm wash might matter if the colored fabrics are new, and depending on the dye process.
Washing colors with whites on hot, especially if the colors are new, is how you get dye bleed
It matters if you bleach your white clothes.
Yeah, there’s that. I never do, so I didn’t think of it.
I don’t even buy white clothes because they get dingy so fast and I’m kind of a messy eater anyway, so it’s all darks for me…
Plus I tried using bleach once a long time ago but it seemed to degrade my clothes pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don’t ever have enough white clothes to make a full load, so I don’t bother with bleach. I separate my clothes by drying requirements and fragility.
I wish this was true… Many of my shirts with a little white (like a collar or stripe) but otherwise dark together with other dark clothes are now a weird greyish tone that do not look clean… Same with all my white towels that I didn’t care about that I washed with my other dark stuff like towels and socks.
Agreed, day to day you wouldnt notice the white changing but hold up a 6month old shirt next to a new one of the same type and its definately greyer.
Whites i always do on their own with a sprinkle of napisan with the washing powder. Courled and darks can be done together if the loads arent big enough to run two cycles. All loads i only ever wash cold, and half a scoop of powder max, the ‘reccomended’ amount is too much, especially if the load isnt completely full. I have never had an issue with smells, stains, dirty clothes with the reduced powder amount.
But i will never wash new dark clothes without giving them a couple rinses in a bucket of water first. Sometimes it takes ~8 buckets cycles of hand washing/rinsing to get the colour to stop running from jeans and dark items that first time.
I just throw towels, bed sheets, blankets, pants, shirta and everything else at the washing machine at once and set it to heavy load and it works fine