DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Everything is BLUE All her whites are blue and her pinks too These were all brand new clothes does anyone know anyway to get the blue out that ran on her clothes. I am talking a couple hundred dollars in clothes will have to be thrown out if I can't get this out.

Anyone ?

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Is everything dried already? I would definitely spot treat as much as you can, and wash everything again........ I don't know any other tricks.......just let it soak and wash again.

For the white items - bleach!

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

I've done that to my own clothes

Usually just sorting them properly and rewashing on the right temp with an extra rinse cycle worked for me.

Good luck! Let me know if it works

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Thank you for the advice- yes they are dried already This was the icing on the cake to an already sh!ty day. I will try rewashing them but they are soooooooo blue that I don't think that will do it. I did find on line that they said to use Carbona and I will try that too I will have to try to find it in the stores tomorrow. It doesn't seem like a lot of places carry it in NY. It's just a shame these are brand new beautiful outfits that I don't want to have to throw out. None of them can be bleached because they all have a design or something on them

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Posted by Jamie

Thank you for the advice- yes they are dried already This was the icing on the cake to an already sh!ty day. I will try rewashing them but they are soooooooo blue that I don't think that will do it. I did find on line that they said to use Carbona and I will try that too I will have to try to find it in the stores tomorrow. It doesn't seem like a lot of places carry it in NY. It's just a shame these are brand new beautiful outfits that I don't want to have to throw out. None of them can be bleached because they all have a design or something on them

Message edited 12/31/2006 8:55:20 PM.

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Rit makes a Color Remover, but I'm not sure if it would take the color out of the other areas as well. It might be worth a try. You can find it with the clothes dyes.

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

I would be careful about what you use to try and get the blue out - if the clothes are for children under a year they are treated with an fire-retardant material. If the treatment that you use is too harsh, it might remove this as well.

I know that there is a product that you can throw in the wash with new stuff to absorb any die that comes off, but I am not sure what it is called. I will try to find out tomorrow - a friend used it and said that it worked really well.

Good luck!

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Thank you all for the advice. I tried the Oxiclean and detergent this morning and I am definitely seeing an improvement. I would just be happy to safe half of the outfits. The ones that were the worse were luckily her white undershirts which I could careless about. But most of the tops are looking better. I will run this a couple of more times.

The RIT thing is a stripper and will strip ALL the color out of the clothes I did it a couple of times with tops to dye them a different color.

The thing you can put in the wash to 'catch' the run from new clothes is either by Spray and Wash or Shout it's a sheet of paper and it did work really well. I used to always use them (got a ton of free samples of it) but I just ran out and forgot to buy more

Thank you again for all the advice hopefully I can salvage most of the outfits or at least half. Otherwise my daughter will just have a tons of jeans

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

That stinks that it ihappend and hopefully you can slavage some of it. I actually never seperate DS's cloths. I never thought to wash it seperataly even though I do mine.

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

sorry!

I found that zout works the best for me! It takes out everything and doesn't bleach the clothes. It even took out permanent marker on one of my shirts. It;s the only thing I use on DD;s clothes.

don't give up and good luck!

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Thank you all!! We are going onto our 4th wash of it and all but 3 shirts look like they are back to normal!!! Thankfully the 3 that were ruined were mostly all white (1 was an undershirt) and easily replaceable to the outfit if I need to.

Thank you everyone for the advice the perfectionist in me was freaking out that my daughter (as stupid as this is) was going to be walking around with a blue tint!!!

Thank you all again

Re: DH did my DD's laundry of new clothes and now

Rit The dye company makes a product that will work. I don't know the name but it isfor that type of issue.