Before I had kids I thought I knew everything about laundry. I always sorted out our white clothes and washed those separately. My more delicate items and work clothes would get special treatment, and almost everything else could get washed together without any issues.
Then I had a baby boy. A baby boy who looked fabulous in bright red clothing. I don’t know if it’s all red clothes, or just all the red clothes Haiden happened to wear in his first year, but it seemed that every.single.time I washed any red items from his wardrobe the dye would bleed onto other clothes in the same load. Never mind that I washed everything in cold water with a good detergent. It just didn’t make a difference!
In the blur of those first few months of being a new parent with a new baby, I learned that the red dye that transfers so easily onto other clothes is nearly impossible to get out of the clothes it bleeds onto!
Since then, I realized that the easiest way to keep this problem from driving me crazy was to avoid it. That means I’ve been the militant laundry mom who kept all red and pink clothes separate from everything else, then washed them in their own load. By themselves. I don’t have enough red garments in my house to fill a washing machine up, which means I felt bad for wasting energy every time I washed a partial load of only-red clothing.
Now, there’s this new product called Shout Color Catcher with Oxi which delivers on its promise to prevent dyes from bleeding onto other clothes and makes my laundry life just a little bit easier.
Using the Shout Color Catcher with Oxi packets is easy: you just toss a packet in with each load of laundry. As the clothes get washed, these packets somehow absorb loose dyes in the washer to prevent them from bleeding onto other items. The additional Oxi Booster powder contains active stain removers to tackle tough stains.
Since I have my amazing front loading washing machine, I have to put the packet in a mesh bag before adding it to the drum of my machine. I’m really not sure why, but I’m a “follow directions” sort of person, and the Shout Color Catcher with Oxi works well using that method, so I’m going with it!
I have to say, this stuff isn’t cheap considering you still need to use it along with your regular laundry detergent. You can buy 20 packets of Shout Color Catcher with Oxi on Amazon for $7.63, which means each packet costs about $0.38. It doesn’t sound like much, but 20 loads of laundry are done pretty quickly in my home, so using it all the time would add up fast. I’ll only use it in those where I have red items mixed in with other, lighter colors.
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I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Shout and received a product sample to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.
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