Can this material take bleach?
Question:I went swimming yesterday and afterwards put my pink swimming suit with my white boardshorts in a bag. After I got home, I carelessly forgot to rinse them out. This morning I woke up and to my dismay, found that my boardshorts have a few small pink blotches on them. How can I get them out? The boardshorts are 55% polyester, 35% cotton and 10% nylon...
Can this material take bleach? Should I try to bleach it? I'm concerned that if I use any other method I will accidentally remove part of the blue/black logo design on the boardshorts...
Any help with this will truly be appreciated.
Answers:
At Wal Mart, K mart and Target they sell a product made by RIT dye's that will take the pink out of the shorts. You can fined RIT in the laundry ails.
WIth dye stains you may be Screwed. Try to bleach them with non-clorine bleach. If all else fails try regular bleach. Fill the wash tub with water and them add 1/2 cup bleach and mix well. This will dalute the bleach enough it shouldn't be to harmful to the logo.
If it is just a couple of spots you can try a bleach pen, on it. Just follow the directions. There should not be enough bleach to ruin the logo.
No you cant use bleach.If you do the cotton part will change colour but nothing else. Synthetics dont change colour.
try soaking them in a weak bleach and water solution
often times if you will wash the stained item immediately the stain will wash out. once the item has dried, it is difficult to remove the stains.
rit does have a product that might possibly work. look in the laundry aisle at wal-mart, etc. it is specifically for stains such as this.
hope this helps.
Yes, you can bleach the white board shorts, with either chlorine or oxygen bleach. Oxygen or other non-chlorine bleach is less likely to damage the logo on the shorts.
1 cup of chlorine bleach per gallon is strong enough to do the job if you have time to let the shorts soak. A stronger mix of bleach and water is more of a risk to damage the logo.
Spot-cleaning with bleach may produce uneven whiteness, depending how the fabric was originally colored white, so I would apply bleach to all of it. 1 cup of chlorine bleach per gallon is strong enough to do the job if you have time to let them soak. A stronger mix of bleach and water is more of a risk to damage the logo.
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