Thank you Dr! (Dr. Beckmann Colour Run Remover)

Member Name: oioiyou

Product:	Dr. Beckmann Colour Run Remover
Date:	20/10/09 (95 review reads)
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Advantages: easy, not expensive and easily available

Disadvantages: none

Ok picture my day ... Baby has a new tooth coming in and won't let me put him down. There is laundry and cleaning to do so I am slowly making my way around the house in an attempt to get things done. My son has Tae Kwon Do in 5 hours and his suit is in the washing machine.

Thankfully it's a sunny day and if I get the suit out and onto the line it should dry rather quickly. With the baby still attached to my hip I opened the washing machine door to find that a brand new dark grey towel was perched right in the front and starring at me! I pulled it out slowly as if that would make any difference to the fate of the white wash behind it. First were a few socks, a bra, and a couple pairs of pants ... all grey! I put the baby down next to me and got hold of the suit. I wanted to be sick seeing the colour of it. A few choice words past my lips before I grabbed the phone to "ask" if it was my other half that had put the evil towel in there! He couldn't remember and to be honest it could have easily got picked up with everything else and gone unseen. I stood there swearing at the suit and towel for about 10 minutes before dad called back saying he'd found something on the net that might help.

I've never known myself to get out of the house with such speed! I trekked over to Asda, down the laundry aisle and grabbed a little white box reading: Dr. Beckmann, Colour Run remover (£2.00). There's one for colour washes too. The box shows a pair of red socks among some white socks and blankets. The box claims to be able to save you from the nightmare of the red sock in white washing. Everyone's heard of the pink underwear nightmare before!

I got home and put all of the white (grey) washing back in (minus the devil towel) and added the contents of the 2 sachets from the box into the washing machine. Beware the contents stink! The box says to get the best results wash at 60 degrees and a maximum of 3kg. My washing setting was to 40 degrees because the suit washing instructions say no higher then that. No prewash, do not add detergent and away we go! According to the box you can hand wash with this stuff too but with the baby not wanting to leave my side I hardly have the time for that.

I figured if this stuff worked I could run up to the Laundromat and get it dried there in time for his class so it was just a matter of waiting for the machine to finish the cycle.

Some time later ...

It's stupid how slowly I opened the door! I grabbed hold of the suit and pulled it from the machine. In the somewhat darker light of the kitchen it looked ok. The real test was getting it in the sunlight to see. I stepped outside and thank the lord it was white! The only thing against me now was that the tag said I couldn't put it into a drier! Give me a break here! I hung the suit up in the sunniest part of the lawn and crossed my fingers.

Now that my little ordeal was over I started to put a dark load of washing on. It was then that I saw the colour sheet (see earlier reviews) on the floor. It was dark grey! The colour coming from the towel had overloaded the sheet! I thought I'd just forgotten to put one in maybe as I had thought it was a white only load.

This colour run remover says it's for whites only as coloured areas, trims and logos could be affected by it. The Tae Kwon Do suit has the class name on the back and a little stitched logo on the leg which are blue and purple but thankfully they weren't discoloured at all. One of the other white bits that were in the wash was a t-shirt of mine that had multi-coloured flower stitching on it and they were ok too.

www.dr-beckmann.co.uk

Since this day I have washed all white only clothes together with a Dr Beckmann Glowhite pad. Super whitening wash! and let me tell you his school shirts have never looked so nice!

(c) oioiyou 2009

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