I'm so frusterated. I accidentally washed two brand new orange colored shirts with some dark pants, and they are now a organgy navy blue color. i haven't dried them yet. Is there any way I can get the blue dye out of the orange shirts???
I've done that too and found if I spray them with Zout while they are still wet and wash them right away they come out fine. Good luck!
Soak them in the tub w/cold water and put 1c vinigar and 1 cu baking-soda (make sure you "swish" the water after you put the bakingsoda) soak for 20min then wring out and re-wash w/ur regular laundry soap.
You can do this w/dry clothes too.
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try a cold soak in oxyclean mixed according to the directions.
Awesome in the sink, soak it. Cold water.
If all these interesting sounding remedies fail to work, you can always dye the two shirts navy blue. Not the color of your choice, but the shirts won't be wasted.
Yes, try Oxyclean. I had it happen to me in the past and it definitely worked. Good luck!
Nope! I am so sorry....Oh has this happened many times in our house.... Hang in there.
Don't dry them and try washing them again. Soak them! I've accidentally "dyed" things just like you did, and after extra washes, most of the dye came out.
When I washed my white/blue floral bedsheets with an orange table cloth, I lucked out and they just turned a beautiful cream. I wasn't really that upset about the sheets. But repeated washes have returned them to their previous state of white.
When my son's favorite yellow McQueen shirt got spots of blue from who knows what, I washed it a few times. It didn't help too much. I was bummed about that one, and told him he had to only wear it on Saturdays :) It looked moldy! Anyway, just regular washes after he wore it on Saturdays for a month or two got the rest of it out, and he's now allowed to wear it any day he wants :)
Good luck!
Oh, I'm glad I'm not the only one. And once I put what I thought was a color-fast (it had been washed several times) red robe in by accident with some other laundry, and my husband ended up with pink underwear!
I don't know what others have answered, but I can give you my absolutely-last-ditch rescue formula. Fill your washer (to low) with the hottest water you can get, add some powdered dishwasher detergent and some powdered non-chlorine bleach, and let your items soak at least an hour; then wash as usual. One of two things will happen. The dye might come out and your orange shirts might be rescued. Or the dye will not come out, or the orange dye may come out, in which case you've lost a couple of shirts - but they were lost before you tried it, so it's not like you re-ruined them!
I never use this except when there's no other possible remedy, but it has saved some clothing for me (unhappily, my husband's pink underwear didn't respond to this treatment, and I had to buy him some replacements).
try washing again in warm water and if it doesnt go out then they will be working outside shirts
