Don't Get Tangled Up in Blues

摘要

Fugitive dye migration is a common problem for both the consumer and the professional cleaner. In last month's column, I touched on the "oxidizing bleaches" used in a bleach bath and at the spotting board. A second group of bleaches are "reducing bleaches" that accomplish the job by taking oxygen out of the stain and are commonly referred to as dye strippers. Sadly, if a cleaner has a dye stripper, it is usually "the purple liquid" that is collecting dust on a shelf. That is the equivalent of a carpenter using only a handsaw because the electric circular saw "is too dangerous."