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4 Natural Materials Prevent Fabrics From Fading And Keep The Colors Bright

We all love the bright bold colors in our clothing as colors are beautiful and warm until it get fade. Over time, the colors of fabrics fade due to the sun rays or the many washings. As for example, if you have a red colored dress or t-shirt, it will turn into a pink piece of clothing  after some numbers of washings. This inevitable cycle of never-ending rotations as wearing the clothes then wash and dry them, will make your favorite clothes to fade. Have you ever think how to keep the colors of your other clothes from fading?! Here in this topic, we are going to show you 4 natural ways that will help you in keeping fabrics and colors bright away from fading.

Before starting to show you what is the 4 natural materials and how to apply them, you should know that it is very important to read the care label at first as well do not forget to check for the dry instructions. They may indicate to some important hints such as wash only in cold or clothing needs to be dried on low, or drip dried.

  1. Salt: it prevents the colors of fabrics from bleeding as by pouring ½ cup of salt into the wash cycle. Try this way and you it will keep your clothes living for a long time and looking more fresher. It works for anything like clothing, scarves or even rugs and anything that’s machine washable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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  2. Black Pepper: adding some teaspoons of black pepper into each load to your laundry could keep the colors of your clothes. Do not worry about pepper dotting your clothes as it will wash out through the rinse cycle.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
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  3. Baking Soda: you can add ½ cup of the baking soda to the washing cycle, then you will find that the fabrics colors stay in that way.                                                                                                
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  4. Vinegar: it could not stop the sun from fading colors, but it could stop the water and the detergent from fading colors. Add one cup of white vinegar during the rinse cycle, it will protect the colors from fading plus being a natural clothing softener. Do not worry about the smell of your clothes which could be like the salad dressing as the white vinegar will evaporate through the rinse cycle and if it does not, you can let your clothes dry outside in the open air.

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