Keeping Colored Clothes Bright

Video Transcript

"Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of washing your clothes. Today we've been talking about how to wash your colored clothes. And I have a couple of great tips for you to keeping your colors bright. Now if you are like me you like to wear really vibrant colors. You can see I really like pink. I'm going to show you how to keep those colors bright. I'm going to teach you a little trick, a couple tricks to keeping your colors bright. Now I don't want to break your heart but when you buy that really beautiful turquoise shirt, just know from the first time out when you are washing it is going to lose a little bit every time. But don't worry, we can minimize that. Something totally, totally simple. What you want do is you want to grab your shirt or anything your skirt and you're just going to turn it inside out. I know you are thinking, how am I going to have time to do this. But if you want to keep that beautiful color in your clothes you'll make the time. So, go ahead and turn it inside out. Do this to everything that you have that you want to preserve the color. Now I have mentioned that you can also soak your new shirt in vinegar overnight. You could do that. Just experiment with it a little bit and that can also help you save your color. But more likely the easy thing to do and you can keep doing this too to all of your laundry if you want to. It actually saves the outside of your laundry because it's going around in that drum. And it will save the color. So, not just your favorite colored shirt but also any other piece of laundry that you are looking to preserve. When you are over at your machine make sure to put your colors on cold. That will also help preserve some of the drainage of color. Now there's lots of brands out there that sell to cold water colors. Go ahead, pick up your favorite one. Test it and make sure it works and use that. So there we have a couple of ideas. Oh! one more great thing. Here we go. If you're going to keep your red really red, wash it with just your pinks and red. And your oranges and your purples, don't even get them near that. That way if there's any color loss it will actually go back to being red. So there you have it. A few good tips on how to keep your clothes bright."