Rit Dye 88720 RIT COLORSTAY, Dye Fixative

Worked great and what I needed to dye blue and it came out really pretty and the color is still in it after several washers. Rick is a great brand to buy if you want to color clothes.

I’m on my 5th purchase. I originally bought this when I was dyeing some shirts a few years back (pandemic hobby lol), but now I use it more often for new clothing that bleeds color (especially purple colors seem to bleed like crazy) Last week I purchased a shirt (tec gear) from a local kohl’s store and thank goodness I hand washed it first because it filled the sink with brownish purple water that would have stained my other laundry. The color never seemed to stop coming so I added a capful of this and some hot water- amazing how it stopped the bleed! I’m now confident to launder the shirt with my other clothes in the future without fear of damaging everything! Easy to use with perfect results, especially if you’re buying clothes online from foreign retailers for those cheap prices- trust me, hand wash those capris leggings first to make sure they don’t bleed dye, but if they do just add this and it’s fixed 👍

Helps dye keep its color

I died two pair of black shorts because they had white bleach marks on them. After dying them black, I had to use this color stay so that the shorts would not fade or that the bleach stains would not return. So far, everything is fine.

Save yourself the headache and just get this if you are planning to dye anything. I used the same RIT dye without it and... never again. The dye never seems to wash out entirely and requires so many rinses that I felt like I was wasting a ton of water. The dye also does seem to wash out and fade pretty much immediately. I saw the color of my garment before washing and loved it, but was disappointed at how much lighter it actually turned out. If that is what you're going for, you can skip this I guess, but the amount of water you'll use rinsing is just scary. This totally stops that and locks the color in. The residual dye washes out super fast and doesn't leave a bunch of residue behind. The color stays super vivid through repeated washings.

This product saved the recent project I was working on. I recently bought a pink hat that I wanted to dye black using RIT black dye. After following all of the proper steps for the dye, I [;aced it in the washing machine to rinse out the excess dye. However, when the hat came out of the washer most of the black color had faded, leaving it a muted pink. I decided to try again, not changing anything in my process besides using the RIT colorstay after dyeing and before placing in the washing machine. This time, when the hat came out it was still the strong, black color I had originally dyed it to. I've been wearing the hat nonstop for the past month and the color hasn't faded one bit.

So so. But looks good enough so that I didn't throw some clothing away. I also used the ColorStay Dye Fixative afterwards.

RIT is great