Colour Catcher

I have to admit that I'm not the best housewife in the world (and my husband would agree!) My approach to the household laundry is pretty splash-dash by most people's standards. My own mother is horrified that I just chuck everything into the same 40 degree wash - whites, coloureds, jeans - the lot! In my defence, it's not down to pure laziness or disorganisation. I just find that waiting until I've got a full load of whites or coloureds leads to piles of washing and the whole family starts to run out of clean clothes before I've got enough for a full load of both lots. I don't like to run the washing machine on less than a full load because it's not very ...  Read the complete review

Dylon colour catcher is a great way to cut down on the number of washing loads you have to do. Using this product means that you can wash coloured and white items together without your whites picking up the colour, or going grey. I bought a trial pack of these sheets for just £1 at Poundland. You get 5 in a packet for your money, so I thought they might be worth trying. They are easy to spot because of their bright red packaging. The product consists of sheets of fabric stuff that feels like thick tissue paper. These sheets are about the size of two sheets of toilet paper (sorry for the comparison but that's the closest thing I could thing of size ...  Read the complete review

I tried these colour catcher sheets a while back when I first had my daughter and all her pink clothes either turned the whites pink or the pinks became tinged with grey when washed on a coloured wash. Product description Colour catcher sheets from Spotless are small pieces of white fabric and look and feel rather like drier sheets. I bought mine in a pack of 20 for around £2.50. They are designed to "remove and hold on to loose dyes and dirt, preventing colour runs and discolouration of your laundry." The anti-transfer sheet is treated with ingredients that soak up dye quicker than the clothes you are washing so in theory you can wash ...  Read the complete review

Years ago (we won't say how many) when I first moved out of my mothers' house she kept saying over and over again for me to bring her my washing. I'm sure she only meant it to be a nice gesture but it always came across to me as if she thought I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't have a clue but that's not the point! The first lot of laundry slowly grew into a larger pile of laundry and then I was soon finding that I had nothing to wear. I went to the shops and got all the bits that the shop aisle said I needed. I then spent the next half hour looking through the washing machine manual. I had separated the washing as I always had into darks, whites and ...  Read the complete review

Colour Catcher claims that you can put mixed washes of whites and coloured clothes in together and not have your whites turn a murky shade of grey. I was a bit dubious to say the least that this would work. The colour catchers are sheets that look like tumble dryer sheets and absorb any running colour. Recently my mum was in hospital and I was looking after her house for her. I wanted to put some washing through so it was all done when she came home, but there was not enough for even a small load of whites, but enough to put in everything at once on a mixed load. I found a packet of these in the kitchen and thought as she had bought and used them they should ...  Read the complete review