How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

Sandy

December 28, 2010

How to fix a white shirt that turned blue
I've just accidentally washed new white tops (which contain slight splashes of color design) with a blue skirt. Now the main body of both white tops is pale blue. What can I do?

By chelsey from Sandpoint, ID

Homemade Dye Remover

My Mom has been using this recipe for years to fix this problem. Mix 1/2 cup bleach and 1/2 cup powdered Cascade in a 2-gallon bucket of warm water. Mix until the Cascade is dissolved and soak item for about 2 hours Then wash the item in cold water.

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I have dyed an item of clothing from white to blue (through another item bleeding in the wash). Is there any way to take this color back out, or am I now stuck with a blue top? The item is made of cotton and I have left it to soak in normal water.

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How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

athayer

December 28, 2010

How do I get blue dye out of white clothing?

By athayer from IN

How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

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Go to the store and buy RIT dye out or dye remover. Works great. Follow instructors. Water must be hot.

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I washed a blue shirt with a white shirt, and the white one came out with blue blotches. How can I get it clean?

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How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

Find blue stains on your clothes after washing? Learn how to remove blue stains from clothes including white shirts and other white clothing.

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I have some really bad blue stains on almost all of my white laundry. I have added bleach to my laundry load, and it doesn’t seem to help. I have used the Clorox® Bleach Pen Gel and that doesn’t seem to get the blue out either. Do you have any ideas on how I can fix this?

Usually these types of stains are from dye transfer from a colored item that got mixed into the load by accident. However, all of your attempts to remove them with bleach suggest that these may not be dye transfer. Washing and pre-treating should have removed the blue dye. Another possibility is that this is from some other source, like fabric softener, which you would treat by rubbing the stains with bar soap and then rewashing.

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How to fix a white shirt that turned blue

Did your shirt end up with a blue bleach stain? Find out why certain types of bleach can leave a blue stain on clothes if applied directly and left on too long.

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We used Clorox 2® to get pizza sauce out of our daughter’s school uniform.  While it took out the stain, it left a blue stain. How do I get it out?

It sounds like liquid Clorox2® was applied directly to the stain (which is good for improved stain removal), but stayed on the fabric too long before being washed.  We typically recommend 3-5 minutes (depends on the type of stain and its severity) for pre-treating before washing an item.  This allows enough time for the surfactants and hydrogen peroxide to work in concentrated form, but not so much time that the colorant and brighteners permanently dye the area where the stain was treated. Additionally, the product should never be allowed to dry on the fabric, since the stain left behind (a combination of blue colorant and brighteners) is nearly impossible to remove.  There’s a chance you might be able to remove the blue colorant by soaking the uniform (if it’s white) in a solution of ¼ cup Clorox® Regular Bleach2 per gallon of water, for up to 5 minutes before thoroughly rinsing.  Any residual blue color left after this process, is concentrated brightener that reflects light off the fabric in the blue spectrum.  How successful you will be depends on how long the liquid Clorox2® was originally on the fabric.

If the uniform is colored, you still might be able to safely bleach it.  To check, add 2 teaspoons Clorox® Regular Bleach2 to ¼ cup water and apply a drop of this solution to a hidden part of the garment; wait 1 minute then blot dry. No color change means the item can be safely bleached.  If it passes, then you can try soaking the uniform as described above.

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