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?

Whatever your tips are, share them on the thread below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

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I don't think garments run like they used to. I just separate into 3 - dark, white and mixed colours, wash at 40 and haven't had any issues thankfully.

Apart from whites I tend to wash everything else together :)

three piles - whites, darks, colours

I wash most things on a low temperature unless its wool.

colour catchers are the best thing

I wash most days. Whites are always separate and washed at 60c as are bedding, colours are washed at 30c.

colours can be mixed successfully if you choose a low temperature wash

The whites I put on a higher temperature with a special whitening agent added, then the darks go together and then what I call the others which don't fit into those two categories.

I try not to mix colours and I go for a 30 degree temp.

i always do whites separate, then light colours , then dark colours. Seems to be working ok for me

I sort my washing into whites, colours (making sure dark denim is turned inside out), bedlinen and towels.

Having one of those laundry baskets with separate labelled sections is useful

A towel wash, (Never use white towels ) a colours wash, a white wash, a socks and pants wash, and a bedding wash.

I just chuck it all in and hope for the best.

I get a bit OTT about this - I have to wash things separately. I do a white wash, a dark wash and a coloured wash. I have started using 30 for most things apart from bedding

Wash at a lower temperature.
Whites only or they look grim after a few washes.
Jeans together, or with other navy stuff as they often run.

I always wash whites and colours separately!

I do three loads, whites, darks and coloured, I use the dye catchers in all loads to get any excess dye out.

I sort everything by colour. I like seeing it all on the line all matching. I tend to wash everything at 40, and I use colour powder for colours, normal powder for whites - occasionally with a scoop of vanish too.

I tend to only split by colour - light/ dark - and i've not had any problems yet!

I never put in brand new brights or darks in with whites, otherwise it all goes grey/pink. If I had a tumble dryer and a bigger washing machine, I would love to have a particular coloured wash as I do think it keeps clothes nicer and brighter for longer. Colour catchers are great for putting in machines, but I never think to use them!

I always split my colours and whites into whites, lights and darks, so I've never had any issues with colours running. I've never even considered the implications of mixing different fabrics - I just bung it all in the washing machine on a 30 or 40 wash.

I love the fragrance of fairy non-bio on my chidren's clothing, my mum used it on me and my brother, so it reminds me of my childhood too. I wash school uniforms and towels on a 30 degree wash. For other laundry I will use a higher temperature, and add some dettol laundry cleanser to underwear and sheets along with the fairy. I never ever ever put jeans in with anything else, and will always use a colour catcher just in case any dye has stayed in my machine for the next wash.

Whites are only whites!
Towels and dusters together.
Jeans and trousers together.
Shirts and T-shirts together.

It's not a hard process!

Whites separate but everything else in together with a colour catcher.