It's very depressing to own clothes that you love very much bleed their colour every time you wash them until they are too faded to wear anymore. It's even worse if the colours on one piece of clothing transfers to another during a wash, you end up having more ruined clothes at the end of the day. You can easily avoid all that pain, by colour fasting your clothes. This means making the colours stay on fabric like butter on bread (or even better!) Learn this technique for colourfasting clothes:
Add a cup of vinegar and ¼ cup of salt to 1½ gallons of cold water. Soak your clothes in the solution for 24 hours or atleast overnight, then rinse and then wash as usual.
Once the garment has soaked for 24 hours, remove it, and clean out the bucket. Fill the bucket with clean, cold water, and place the garment in it. Rinse a couple of times. If colour still bleeds out from the fabric, repeat the vinegar mixture. If the colour does not bleed, let the garment dry. The colour has now been locked into the garment.
When you buy new clothing, always check if it will bleed before washing. Check by dampening an inconspicuous area with water and ironing a piece of kitchen paper over it. If any colour bleeds onto the paper then your item is not colourfast. This way, you can colourfast your clothes even before the first wash and avoid the risk of spoiling nything.
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