Washing clothes: Not separating colors from whites if using color safe bleach?

[JEDI]

if using color safe bleach (aka bleach alternative), ok to not separate colors from whites and wash all in one batch?

Why/Why not?

 

[zig3695]

i run everything together and i dont use colorsafe bleach. or any bleach at all

 

[BoomerD]

As long as there's no chlorine bleach, you're good to go. Your tighty-whities will get dingy-looking over time, but they'll still be clean.

 

[destrekor]

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on topic: I don't use bleach or color safe bleach. I just keep two separate loads and only use tide cold water.

 

[coldmeat]

I wash all of my clothes together, doesn't matter if they're white or not and just use regular detergent and cold water.

 

[FoBoT]

always separate your clothes, doesn't matter what soap you are using

 

[alkemyst]

Colors can still bleed and affect the whites.

Personally I don't care for color-safe bleaches. My colors never need it and it doesn't whiten whites much.

In college and at laundromats you can tell who washes everything together. Their whites are all more grayish.

They are perfectly white, just not white.

 

[sao123]

skip the bleach...
I wash everything in ammonia except for the delicates... and yes seperate:


denim
dark colors
light colors
whites

 

[Squisher]

The only way I can tell my socks from my son's is that all his are gray. He is far too lazy to separate.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

No don't use the colorsafe bleach. I've used it for 3 years straight and I've investigated thoroughly. Does it bleach colors still? Yeah. Those new shirts I get I toss in the tub first and colorsafe bleach it. Wow, and look at the navy come out of those navy t-shirts. I used Tide also... yeah. You don't want that stuff.

Seperate? Definitely. However I like to use it on my whites. It helps, and it's not devestating like regular bleach just in case you happen to throw some colors in there.

I think its a huge issue for first time washing using colorsafe bleach, and still it bleaches over time. After 20 washes, you're definitel;y going to have more fading than with regular detergent.

I still have some colorsafe bleach left, but I reserve it for whites only. I've mvoed to regular Tide for my colors.

 

[mugs]

No. Separate the whites and use regular bleach on the whites that can be bleached.