Share with Fairy Non Bio your tips and tricks for mixing colours and fabrics. £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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The rules on laundry and what to do with mixing colours and fabrics can sometimes get a bit confusing with different people saying different things. Therefore Fairy Non Bio would like to know what your tips and tricks are when it comes to mixing colours and fabrics?

Here’s what Fairy Non Bio have to say: “Everyone’s got their own way of doing things. We design our products so that you can get the most out of every load but would love to know how you divide and conquer your washing and what you use for it!”

Do you find that once colours have been washed once you can mix them with the lighter colours? Are there certain fabrics that you know can be easily washed together? Or have you figured out a laundry system that means your dark colours no longer bleed into lighter clothes? Maybe you’ve had a laundry disaster that forced you to change how you did things?

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I always have a whites/lighter colours wash and a coloured wash. Washing at 30 also helps. I also have separate washes for towels and bed linen

I do take the time to separate whites from colours just because I've been caught so many times with colour run in the past! I will wash lighter colours (grey) with colours but I always use a colour catcher sheet with every wash, it's amazing what they pick up!
I wash reds totally separately & jeans in a seperate wash too - I wouldn'y trust these not to run, even with the colour catcher!

I often wash big new items (towels, bedding etc) on its own first, and small new items I will give a quick hand-wash in the sink first.

I do seperate by similar colours, we get through plenty to make up a big enough wash load for each anyway so it doesn't really matter

Always wash jeans separately. Then I do a dark and a light wash.

After living with someone in uni whose clothes were all grey, I’m quite fastidious about separating whites. I also do a dark clothes and a pink/red wash. ‘Housework’ in general is none of my strong points, but laundry is one thing I have to get ‘right’.

I wash whites and very light/pale colours together. Anything else will go in a separate load.

Whites are one load, everything else is another load - and I mostly buy black clothes so it doesn't matter if the colours runs

Whites, lights, coloured, darks

I just stick everything in on a 30 and use colour catchers. It works for us!

If its never been washed before and its coloured it goes in a dark wash.

Separate washing baskets

I do the first wash of a new item as just the item and a colour catcher. From that I have a rough idea how much everything runs, and it informs what I put it in with in the future.

I wouldn't put whites and colours together as I would be worried that the whites would look grey. I will ocassionally put a lighter colour item with my dark wash if it doesn't really matter if it gets spoilt. But would normally put a colour catcher sheet in - not sure if they really work or not though,

I always keep whites separate but everything else goes in together. I have learnt that new black jeans need to be separate after a disaster in the summer.

I tend to separate the lighter colours from the darker colours and as a precaution use the Dylon colour run sheets works a treat

I dio a White, a light and dark wash and usually wash on a 30 wash except whites which are a higher wash. Works fine for me

I do a exclusive white, pale colours, bright colours, dark colours and black washes. I also do jeans, woolen and towels/bedding seperately!
I have A LOT of washing to do here and I have the machine on at least twice every day.

I always do a machine for whites only,then 1 for colours and another one for blacks/dark colours.Always wash with cold water and the help of Fairy makes every laundry a breeze 😂😂😂

I tend to do 4 different washes

Jumpers and wool / delicates - use the wool cycle

anything dark coloured

anything bright, though these may be divided into 'dark' brights (reds, royal blues with dark and neon green / turquoise in with lights)

anything 'light'

these last 3 go 60 degree wash

I find that I was things that are likely to share their colours like jeans in with my sock/pant wash that way it is not going to ruin anything nice. New clothes that are bright go in a short solo wash for the first couple of times so I can judge how much they will run. Finally I find my modern machine with its 20 min was is the best machine so I don't worry about having small loads.

Normally, I split my washing into 3 loads; dark, mids and whites. We are a family of six so I tend to have at least one load of washing on every day.

Whites are often washed at a higher temperature, with some whitener in the wash. If I have a large pile of dark washing, I look for any new clothing and wash those items together in one load, not exceeding the 30 C temperature.

If I have something like a navy and white top, I tend to wash it with darks - if the white stripes end up a little grey, I will occasionally wash with other similar items and add some whitener to refresh the white stripes.

Generally, the dark and mid washing can, if necessary, be put in together occasionally - unless the clothing is new, the colours don't tend to run on a 30C wash.

I wash everything at 40C and don't bother sorting fabrics at all. We've never had disasters, anything new like a pair of jeans or anything else brightly coloured does go in separately at first.

I separate lights & darks. I wash lights at 40 and darks at 30. Occasionally, if things just need freshening up I'll do a quick 15 minute cycle. I do a separate wash for my partners work wear as he is works on a building site it's always very mucky! I don't bother handwashing, I rarely look at washing labels it all just gets bunged in and I've never had a problem doing this.

I always wash bright clothes on their own for the first few times but after that I can put it in all together - I have never had any problems really

my general rule is to separate obvious darks and lights but anything that doesn't matter too much (eg nightclothes and socks/pants) can go in darks because it doesn't really matter if they change colour a bit.