Hi, I have just come back from holiday and have managed to dye an entire machine full of whites pink!?

Question

Any ideas how I can get them back to being whiter than white...will bleach work or will it damage the material?? Either way im doomed!

Thanx

Answer 1

To remove stains caused from dyes leeching from one article of clothing to another, you can purchase a product that is designed specifically for this purpose. It is called Rit Dye Fabric Treatment - Powder Color Remover and is available everywhere that you can buy fabric dyes. Soak in the color remover, then launder as usual.:)

Answer 2

I've been in the cleaning business for 10 years, (retired) but we had a chemical we used called YELLOGO, a dye stripper. But, unless you are in the industry, you cannot get this stuff. I know of no sure-fire way to ruin your clothes than to use regular bleach. That will take the pink out and turn everything yellow. There are color safe bleaches which I would use only after testing it on one piece of clothing. I have used peroxide (the household type) with some success on small areas, but that's usually an overnight soak. Just be glad you didn't have a red indelible ink pen in the wash.

Answer 3

It really depends on the content of the fiber for each garment as to whether the bleach will do damage. Manmade fibers, like nylon, acrylic, spandex, orlon, polyester, etc. do not tolerate bleach well. Rit and Carbona both a a color run remover that you add to the washer when you relaunder the clothing. They are designed to remove dye runs from garments. You can find them in the laundry aisle at discount stores and fabric stores. I've used both with equal success. But, plan on re-laundering even after treatment, both products have a strong odor that only laundering again removes.

Answer 4

Chlorine bleach may or may not damage the fabric -- depends on the fiber content. Read the labels on the clothes and the labels on the bleach. Chlorine is a no-no for spandex/lycra, wool and silk, and not a wonderful idea for nylon. "Color safe" bleaches like Oxyclean or Chlorox II may work -- try just rewashing with 2x the recommended bleach amount, detergent and the hottest water the clothes can stand.

There is a product called Shout Color Catcher that is a dye "magnet" that you can include in your wash, and that may be useful also. Most of the time, rewashing (without that red sock) with a double dose of peroxygen or perborate bleach and detergent will do it. DO NOT DRY THE CLOTHES UNTIL YOU"VE DE-PINKED THEM.

Answer 5

Try soaking them in Bleach first. Use one or two items at first as a test. Good Luck. Oh 30 min should be plenty of time for you to know if the bleach idea will work.

Answer 6

I would try bleaching just 1 or 2 items at first to make sure the bleach doesn't destroy the fabric.

But, if all else fails, pink can become your new signature color?

Answer 7

You probably are not going to be able to get them back the way that you want them. Try soaking them in bleach, but remember doing this too many times will cause the fabric to get thinner, and thinner. Only do this once or twice.. Good Luck

Answer 8

go to walmart and get one of the whiting wash load balls and run it with the hottest water you can. It should do the trick. Alternatively, you can bleach and bleach heavy too if you dilute it with hot water before adding it to the load. I would suggest if you are going to go the bleach route that you add 1-1.5cups of bleach to a large container with another 4-5cups of hot water. mix it up and then add it to the machine slowly at the point you normally do.

Good luck!

Answer 9

The dye companies like RIT have a "color-remover" product that is made for exactly that. You run a wash cycle with that in the machine and supposedly they are white again.

Answer 10

i've got used Rit Laundry scientific care shade Remover from Walgreens. It bumped off the pink out of my white socks(nonetheless moist). as quickly as I in comparison those socks to a pair of uncontanimated socks, the dealt with ones looked like a lifeless white, yet defintely no pink. in case you may stay with this imperfection, then this product could paintings for you.