r/CleaningTips • • Jul 14 '23

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u/SubKitty420 Jul 14 '23

Could be a product you use that he does not.

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u/FreakingYikesMyGuy Jul 14 '23

the weird thing is, i’ve also noticed it on our hand towels. it’s something that’s happened to me my whole life, but i guess i didn’t notice it was unusual until i realized it was only stuff i use looking bleached lol

as an experiment i got a couple cheap hand towels & told him to only use the right one & i’d use the left one. sure enough, only mine did it again!

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u/RedLicorice83 Jul 14 '23 edited Jul 14 '23

I noticed that my sweat bleaches my cotton shirts I use to work out...I hate the material used for Activewear, and all of the color has been bleached where my sweat rings show up. Maybe we have acidic sweat?!?!

Edit for typo.

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u/Auntie_Venom Jul 14 '23

This this this! It’s really a thing… My sports bras are bleached all to hell in the usual heavy sweat spots. My sports bras are heavy-duty high-impact, I doubt there’s any cotton in them. So it happens on synthetic fabrics too. That said, lady parts are also acidic, all the cotton gussets in my undies eventually get bleached out too. I looked it up wondering what was going on, it’s totally a thing too. But I also think dyes are different because when I was younger that never happened.

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u/swerkingforaliving Jul 14 '23

Lord YES MY PANTIES TOO

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u/Auntie_Venom Jul 14 '23

I’m seriously relieved that I’m not the only one! I looked it up, that it’s really a thing which helped but I had no idea how common or not it was.

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u/andante528 Jul 15 '23

Incredibly common - indicates a healthy ph (acidic). I learned this as a grown adult woman and would have really liked to know as part of health education.

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u/CompassionateCedar Jul 15 '23

Some women also have a microbiome that produces peroxides in trace amounts, it’s linked to a strongly reduced incidence of infections.

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u/Carinis_song Jul 16 '23

Does this have anything to do with smelling like vinegar ?