Washing machine question

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lately on my clothes have orange stains - washing machine is new bought in dec 05.. i wonder what it is?

How curious - all my white towels had orange stains on them last night, but I noticed that as I was putting them into the washing machine (which is also very new).

As I've learnt from personal experience, sunscreen can stain clothes orange, and the stain doesn't come up until after they've been washed - by which time it's too late to shift them. So whenever I wash something that I've worn while using sunscreen I always spray collar, cuffs, etc with OxiClean before putting them in the wash. Haven't had any sunscreen stains since starting to do that.

But haven't got a clue why my towels should have orange stains!

hhmmm! as some of the clothes - not all - did not have any sucream on it unless it touched the other clothes that had suncream on?

Orange felt-tip pen in a child's pocket?

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