Have some new blue jeans and a huge amount of blue dye runs out when washed. We were told it might be possible to fix the dye by using salt. How would we go about this please? Like how much salt to use and how long to boil etc? Or might there be a better way? Thanks for advice.
Fixing running colours in clothes
Nov 03, 2011
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In article , john east writes
LMGTFY:
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Always wash them inside out and only wash with other dark colours.
MBQ
Partner, who knows about these things, suggests if you want to get rid of the excess dye, you could swim in them in the sea. But salt won't fix the dye.
Has Snopes covered this yet?
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