Consider the color catcher, a product that claims you can launder mixed loads of whites and colors without any color transference. Both Shout Color Catchers and Carbona Color Grabbers are dye-catching sheets that promise to protect your whites and lights by absorbing loose dye in the wash before it deposits onto your clothes. But do they work? I've been been putting them in my own laundry for years, but our product tester was skeptical. So the two of us took to the lab to find out the truth.
You sort your laundry, right? The folks behind the color catcher claim that a stray red sock or dark jeans won't spell disaster for your good towels. That means you could save time, money and energy compared to running micro-loads of sorted clothes. To put that claim to the test, our skeptical product tester prepared a bowl of purple dye using two cups of water and two grams of colored powder. He then added two Shout Color Catchers to the bowl, and left them to soak for two hours.
We decided to work with Shout Color Catchers, since they are more widely available. We tested to see whether the Color Catchers would actually absorb color from a bowl of purple dye. You can see the before and after of our experiment, showing that the Color Catchers pulled the dye right out of the water. The now-stained color catchers were soaked in hot water, then placed on a white towel to test for leaching.
None of the absorbed dye transferred onto the towel. Our tester repeated this experiment with one cup of water and one gram of dye in the bowl, and got similar results. We tested to see whether this is likely to happen under normal conditions. Here's what we did. We collected a load of new white T-shirts, new white sheets, assorted colored clothing from the floor of a college kid's room, and some new black socks. We pre-washed the new white items to get rid of any sizing coatings. We did test runs to make sure no dye was coming from the water or the detergent.
We used a spectrophotometer—essentially a "color scanner"—to measure the change in color of each item before and after the following loads:. When we measured, whites had darkened by 1. Shout Color Catcher Dye-Trapping Sheets save you time and money allowing mixed wash loads and preventing color runs. The proof is on the Sheet! Use 2 sheets for large loads with new, dark, or non-colorfast garments.
Shout Color Catcher can be used with all your favorite laundry products. Discard sheet s after use. Sheets are dryer safe. USES: Trap colors and dyes in the washing machine, allows mixed washes, and works on all colorfast washables, and works in all water temperatures.
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