How to wash Blue school shirts

[Ad90409]

Hi there my kids school changed the uniform this year from white polo's (easy to wash) to light blue shirts and I have no idea which detergent to use to wash them?please can anyone help it's cost an absolute fortune buying 3 brand new sets of uniform and I don't have the money to replace if I ruin the shirts. thanks

Just chick all the blue shirts in the wash together in a 40 degree wash. They'll be fine.

Why do you need different detergent to wash light blue shirts?!?

Normal non-bio should be fine.

Our school used to have light blue polos as an option, now white only. The light blue were far easier to wash as they just go in any colours load.

Is it stains you're worried about?

If they're made of polycotton they won't run.

DH has some pale blue work shirts and they go in with the whites.

Light blue is an easier colour to wash than white. Just bung them in the machine at 30 or 40C (along with your normal clothes).

I just washed my first load of light blue shirts, saw this thread title and thought 'oh bugger, there's a special way of doing it?'

So relieved that my just checking them in with the colours wasn't about to go horribly wrong!

Light blue shirts are ace as you can put them in with your lights or your darks. I use the same washing detergent for everything. I didn't realise people used different ones for different colours.

Chuck them in with bedding.

Light blue is a far better colour than white to wash. Put them in with anything light coloured (that has been washed before so nothing brand new just in case dye runs). With towels, other clothes etc, anything.

Personally if you have 3 shirts that haven't been washed before, I'd do their first wash alone. Then all subsequent washes can be with anything light.

I did mine with the white towels at 60.
Normal bio detergent.
I struggled last year to get grease stains out so I thought this year I'd try doing them with the towels to see if it's better.

But yes I agree put them in with any wash. I do miss being able to bleach any marks out though

DH is in the RAF so I've been washing light blue shirts for almost 24 years. I just wash them in with the lights, on a 40 degree wash, with whatever bio powder I'm using at the time.

Seriously??? What???

Do you worry about all individual colours this much?

Chick them in with a light wash or just a coloured one. They'll be fine.

DH's light blue work shirts go in either the light or dark wash depending on what there's more of. Never had a problem.

For grease marks, use washing up liquid or Swarfega rubbed in, then stick the garment in a normal wash.

Huh? I use the same detergent for all my washing. Normally the only way clothes get ruined in the wash is by accidentally putting a bright/dark non colour-fast item in with a pale wash or shrinking something by machine washing it when it should be hand-washed. The detergent hasn't got anything to do with it, surely!

Thanks for all your replies I know it sounds ridiculously stupid I over think things I use bio to wash whites and non bio for nearly everything else except school jumpers I use liquid colour detergent. I read not to use detergent that contains chlorine?the shirts(not polos) are cotton/polyester blend.