How does color-safe bleach work and what, really, does it do?

Question

I use color-safe bleach on my colored laundry but I finally just can't stand it. What IS it? And why am I using it? How can bleach be color-safe? Doesn't bleach... bleach things? And if this stuff doesn't bleach things, is it really bleach? Is it doing anything other than giving me something else to spend money on? If I mixed it with any of the things you mix bleach with to get nasty reactions like chlorine gas - or spontaneous combustion - would it still do those things? Or is it a completely different product altogether and only CALLED bleach because the marketers know people will buy something called bleach?

I'm confused.

Answer 1

It is not chlorine-based, it is oxygen-based, and will brighten without bleaching the colours out of fabrics. You have seen it on tv in one form, as Oxy-Clean.
http://www.laundry-alternative.com/Oxygen_bleach_research.html

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How does color-safe bleach work and what, really, does it do?
I use color-safe bleach on my colored laundry but I finally just can't stand it. What IS it? And why am I using it? How can bleach be color-safe? Doesn't bleach... bleach things? And if this stuff doesn't bleach things, is it really bleach? Is it doing anything other than giving...